i3 4160 won't Bottleneck even 980!!! IS it true

[xxxhomie21]

hey guyz is it true that i3 4160 is capable of handling 970, 980
like in this post http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2729891/bottlenecking-guide-chart-2015.html

bcoz i'm running i3 4160 and if its true than would try to get the 970 or the pascal 1060 in future
it will be gud news for me even if the games won't run at 60 canstant, 30+ is gud for me but i wan't to play them in ultra 1080p and all the upcoming games of 2016

 

[Gingerbread]

Well the 4160 can run games at ultra if the GPU is good enough, unless it's some extremely crowded place in some game where you need more CPU processing power, but for singleplayer games the i3 will be enough and will be capable, not to mention you can upgrade it in the future. Sure i5 + 970 will give you a boost over i3 + 970 in some of the most CPU demanding games, but the boost will not be huge.

 

[xxxhomie21]

i.e if I keep changing gpu's and stick to i3 ill always get playable performance on ultrla settings thankz
would tell me some crowded games I can't get what u talking about is it mmo's
thankz

 

[Gingerbread]

Yeah it is MMOs, large MMOs

 

[xxxhomie21]

and what about BF4, dota, souls....

 

[RobCrezz]

Depends on the game. Games that hit the CPU hard, will hold back performance from what the 980 is capable.

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

Depends on the game. Games that hit the CPU hard, will hold back performance from what the 980 is capable.

This, games like BF4 and GTA 5 will be held back.

 

[ludastar]

It all depends on how the game engine manage's threads like i have i7 4790k at 4.5GHz and i get bottlenecking on game's that are singlethreaded rendering my example is SeriousSame 3, that game is verywell build for DX9 this is pushing DX9 to the max i use to have a FX8320 and still able to play it on untra but around 30fps min in heavy places the i7 4790k still drops to about 45fps, so really its about the game,

another example is metro 2033 if you have weak cpu use nvidia phyx instead of cpu phyic's because you have the gpu power unlike my 760.