Question RTX 2060 Super Bottleneck

[jfizzle4321]

I have been running an I7 3820. I recall being told that my 2 GTX 680s would bottleneck on this chip, this was in 2012. Well, I upgraded to 2 X GTX 970s in SLI and I still have yet to experience a noticeable bottleneck. What I do notice is the perpetual "SLI is dead, get off the forum" posts on AAA game forums/steam discussions. Whenever I compare my benches to GTX 970 SLI benchmarks, I'm almost always within a standard deviation of the benchmarks. The only game I'm curious about is Stellaris. When I hit a certain threshold, thousands of units on screen, I start to notice a slug. Other than that, most modern games perform well. My question is, will recent AAA games (Monster Hunter World, Odyssey, and Wildlands) bottleneck that noticeably if I replace my 2 GTX 970s? The conundrum is that the only major noticeably upgrade for my socket size (LGA 2011) is the 4960X. I can acquire one but only refurbished unless I want to pay $800+ for a new one. At that pricepoint, I might as well just purchase a new build. I want the 2060 to hold me over one more series until I decide to build something very powerful 2 GPU generations from now. My net cost, assuming the markup on the super isn't incendiary, should be $200 after selling my GTX 970s. My question is, will the bottleneck be THAT bad? Again, my 3820 has been powering twin 970s for awhile now.

 

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As there are no benchmarks and the only to go by are nVidia's claims, then the 2060S should be a replacement of the 2070, or within that range. You could see how your SLI stacks to that performance range and extrapolate a bit based on the delta you see with your own system. Use common benchmarking tools or common games used in reviews to that end.

On the other hand and if you have no problems running the 970s in SLI, then I don't see why the 2060S would pose any additional effort to your CPU. In fact, isn't SLI even more of a burden to CPUs than single cards? In any case, if you don't want to change the whole platform, then getting the 2060S sounds like a good idea to me, even with an evident bottleneck. Less power, less noise, less heat and, maybe, better/same performance.

EDIT: Now a confirmed fact

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14586/geforce-rtx-2070-super-rtx-2060-super-review

Cheers!

 

[jfizzle4321]

As there are no benchmarks and the only to go by are nVidia's claims, then the 2060S should be a replacement of the 2070, or within that range. You could see how your SLI stacks to that performance range and extrapolate a bit based on the delta you see with your own system. Use common benchmarking tools or common games used in reviews to that end.

On the other hand and if you have no problems running the 970s in SLI, then I don't see why the 2060S would pose any additional effort to your CPU. In fact, isn't SLI even more of a burden to CPUs than single cards? In any case, if you don't want to change the whole platform, then getting the 2060S sounds like a good idea to me, even with an evident bottleneck. Less power, less noise, less heat and, maybe, better/same performance.

EDIT: Now a confirmed fact

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14586/geforce-rtx-2070-super-rtx-2060-super-review

Cheers!

Thank you for the response. I am along the same lines of thinking. Once thing that surprised me is the 2060 super is outperforming the 1080 on many games. I'm thinking it will be much more efficient than my 970s. Yes, SLI is more burdensome. If they release founders at $399, I may take the leap. If not, I may wait another 3 months to see which aftermarket overclocked cards are released. I'm thinking AMD's release may help finally drive card prices down appropriately.