i7 2600K GTX 1080 bottleneck?

[gtxyyy]

i want to buy the new card and i dont know if i will have a bottleneck or not.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

No. I moved my 980 Ti over from a 2600K to this 6700K and saw less than a 5FPS gain. I was using a P67 board with PCI-E 2.0 as well so part of that was gained just from moving to a PCI-E 3 slot. The 2600K is still a very powerful CPU.

 

[joshmoyer]

You might see a small bottleneck, since the 1080 should be more powerful than the 980ti. But i doubt it'd be enough to lose sleep over. Still, 2600k is pretty old and you might like the new features of skylake and its chipset. But as far as bottlenecks, i wouldnt worry

 

[RCFProd]

You shouldn't be bottlenecking, but I won't stay you won't be faster with a new Skylake i7 with DDR4-2666Mhz or higher speed memory. You'll still gain 15-25 fps with that in the latest games. However the GTX 1080 should perform well with the i7-2600k.

 

[ATi RaDEoN]

No way

 

[RobCrezz]

Shouldnt be anything significant if you are overlclocked.

 

[SkyNetRising]

You do understand that all this talk about bottlenecking is just theoretical?
We need benchmarks, specificaly - CPU scaling benchmarks for those new gtx 1070/1080.

 

[gtxyyy]

Shouldnt be anything significant if you are overlclocked.

im oc to 4.4GHZ . should be fine?

 

[gtxyyy]

You do understand that all this talk about bottlenecking is just theoretical?
We need benchmarks, specificaly - CPU scaling benchmarks for those new gtx 1070/1080.

yep and i choose ur comment in mistake

 

[gtxyyy]

You shouldn't be bottlenecking, but I won't stay you won't be faster with a new Skylake i7 with DDR4-2666Mhz or higher speed memory. You'll still gain 15-25 fps with that in the latest games. However the GTX 1080 should perform well with the i7-2600k.

im oc to 4.4GHZ. should i be fine with a 1080?

 

[gtxyyy]

No. I moved my 980 Ti over from a 2600K to this 6700K and saw less than a 5FPS gain. I was using a P67 board with PCI-E 2.0 as well so part of that was gained just from moving to a PCI-E 3 slot. The 2600K is still a very powerful CPU.

ok thank you bro

 

[gtxyyy]

You might see a small bottleneck, since the 1080 should be more powerful than the 980ti. But i doubt it'd be enough to lose sleep over. Still, 2600k is pretty old and you might like the new features of skylake and its chipset. But as far as bottlenecks, i wouldnt worry

im oc to 4.4GHZ . it should be good right?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

You shouldn't be bottlenecking, but I won't stay you won't be faster with a new Skylake i7 with DDR4-2666Mhz or higher speed memory. You'll still gain 15-25 fps with that in the latest games. However the GTX 1080 should perform well with the i7-2600k.

That depends entirely on what resolution and what games. At 1440p with all image quality settings maxed ( godrays in Fallout 4, Hairworks in The Witcher 3 etc ) I saw less than a 5FPS gain overall going from a 2600k ( 4.5Ghz ) on a P67 board with 8GB of DDR3 1600 to a 6700K ( 4.6Ghz ) on a Z170X board with 16GB of DDR4 3200. At higher resolutions the graphics card is the determining factor.

 

[gtxyyy]

You shouldn't be bottlenecking, but I won't stay you won't be faster with a new Skylake i7 with DDR4-2666Mhz or higher speed memory. You'll still gain 15-25 fps with that in the latest games. However the GTX 1080 should perform well with the i7-2600k.

That depends entirely on what resolution and what games. At 1440p with all image quality settings maxed ( godrays in Fallout 4, Hairworks in The Witcher 3 etc ) I saw less than a 5FPS gain overall going from a 2600k ( 4.5Ghz ) on a P67 board with 8GB of DDR3 1600 to a 6700K ( 4.6Ghz ) on a Z170X board with 16GB of DDR4 3200. At higher resolutions the graphics card is the determining factor.

yea im playing on 1440P. so i should be fine with the i7-2600K 4430MHZ?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

You do understand that all this talk about bottlenecking is just theoretical?
We need benchmarks, specificaly - CPU scaling benchmarks for those new gtx 1070/1080.

yep and i choose ur comment in mistake

I fixed that.

And yes you are fine as I've said twice.

 

[Random0541]

Hope I'm not too late to this party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9EJNa0y524 (Benchmarks start at 2:42)

This should help you out on your dilemma. It's not necessarily a 1070, but he does bring up good points. I'll let you watch the video but TL;DR It's up to you to decide whether a couple of frames is worth upgrading the rest of your system (assuming that you're gaming at high resolution).

Don't worry I'm in the exact same boat as you are.

 

[gtxyyy]

Hope I'm not too late to this party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9EJNa0y524 (Benchmarks start at 2:42)

This should help you out on your dilemma. It's not necessarily a 1070, but he does bring up good points. I'll let you watch the video but TL;DR It's up to you to decide whether a couple of frames is worth upgrading the rest of your system (assuming that you're gaming at high resolution).

Don't worry I'm in the exact same boat as you are.

when u are gaming at high res the need of the cpu is going down and bottleneck if there is,is less desturbing then in 1080P gaming. and maybe in 2-3 years ill upgrade my whole system.