Rx 480 bottlenecking my i3 6100 because of driver overhead?

[kifayat27]

Should i go for gtx 1060 or rx 480 as i mostly play cpu demanding games as gta and others. I'm worried whether the driver overhead apparent with amd cards will bog down my cpu performance. Thanks in advance!

 

[chemmajorp53]

What driver overhead? I can't see there being any problems, your CPU will run fine and will be the limiting factor if you're playing at 1080p or lower

 

[kifayat27]

Gpu driver overhead with rx 480. Benchmarks show that gpu utilization is lower on cpu heavy games on rx 480 so the fps take a hit. Gtx 1060 seems to provide a stable fps. I'm wondering if it'd be smart to get a gtx 1060 for the long run as more dx12 games roll in.

 

[HEXiT]

in a lot of games it wont be an issue but on games that like more than 2 true cores (ports like gtav) you may stutter and suffer reduced fps.
also dx12 seems to be a pipedream mate. i wouldnt hold out for any game that uses it.. a much better alternative is vulcan and seems to be showing the newest cards off the best.

 

[chemmajorp53]

Driver overhead is a problem on CPUs worse than the i3 6100 and on DX11 titles with the RX 480, not DX12 from what I've understood. I think you're overthinking this. The whole point of DX12 is to reduce the number of API calls.

 

[ezskills]

If your building a computer to check e-mail surf the Internet and watch movies go with the i3 because you don't need 4 cpu cores to do that but if your building a gaming computer than don't.

But a i3 because games is starting to become a quad core standard and the i3 will struggle in the long run and hyper threading does not equal more cores it just line up the next task right away one after another with no breaks so the processor will move on to the next task right away and don't have to wait. Intel a strong edge over Amd in single core performance that's what DX11 do best.

And the i3 does very well in games favoring single core performance so when you look at the numbers it's a great buy but if you pay attention to what game makers are starting to do is having games mostly AAA games a quad core standard and these days it's easy to get caught up in a dual core wave when the dual core gaming era was the 90's.

Now if you buy an i3 and plan to upgrade when you have the money than thats fine but if you buy a i3 for a build you want to game heavy on then it will start to show it's age as soon a you want to play that game that requires a quad core minimum.