I currently have an i3 3220 and am looking to upgrade my gpu to 1050ti will there be much of a bottleneck?
GTAV right i had a laptop with i5 2450m Gt540m which ran it fine on low to medium settings i looked at a benchmark site and the i5 2450m performed worse than the i3 3220 and i3 3220 performed better thoughts on this?I'm sorry to tell you, but as you know that cpu is kinda old and has only 2 cores, you will have bottleneck with basically any GPU. But depends also on the game, for example, GTA will be unplayable because the cpu can't handle it. My suggestion is to change in the near future also the cpu, you can buy used parts and will be ok. Go with a quad core. For example there is the first and second gen ryzen 3, for the price (80$ new) are really good if you are on a budget, so if you buy them used with 60-70$ you should have cpu and mobo.
Sorry i didnt get your question (English is not my first language). Anyway, is totally normal that the i3 is faster. For laptop are normally used underpowered cpus, and also the architecture is different. That i5 does not have 4 cores, is a 2 cores 4 threads, the i3 is the same, but the biggest difference is that the i3 has a higher clock speed, it also needs 55W to run, the i5 35W. Basically if you see "i7" on a laptop it also could be a 2 cores 4 threads (like in my ultrabook), so pay atention.GTAV right i had a laptop with i5 2450m Gt540m which ran it fine on low to medium settings i looked at a benchmark site and the i5 2450m performed worse than the i3 3220 and i3 3220 performed better thoughts on this?