[SOLVED] Ryzen 5 1600X and RTX 1070?

[ManOfArc]

Is the RTX 2070 too much GPU for the Ryzen 5 1600X (no OC)? At 1080p? At 1440p? I like my graphics at their max.
PC-Builds.com's Bottleneck Calculator seems to think so; by about 10%. Do I trust it?

 

[Dunlop0078]

Bottleneck calculators are totally useless in my opinion.

It depends on the game in some very cpu heavy games at 1080p it may hold back a 2070 a bit, though im sure anything currently out will still run very well regardless of if there is a slight cpu bottleneck. At 1440p I doubt there will be any cpu bottleneck at all in current games.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Some games yes. Other games no. Do you already have the CPU? You can always upgrade it later with Ryzen 3.

 

[ManOfArc]

Some games yes. Other games no. Do you already have the CPU? You can always upgrade it later with Ryzen 3.

Yes, got the CPU but not the 2070. I have a GTX 1070 now, but want to gift it to somebody. So I was wondering about replacing it with a RTX 2070 if I wasn't being too crazy.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Yes, got the CPU but not the 2070. I have a GTX 1070 now, but want to gift it to somebody. So I was wondering about replacing it with a RTX 2070 if I wasn't being too crazy.

I hope the person you are gifting your GTX 1070 will put it to good use. Otherwise, that would be an expensive upgrade for a relatively small jump in performance. RTX 2070 is on par with a GTX 1080. I would only do that if they main reason for the upgrade was to gift the GTX 1070.

 

[mdd1963]

No GPU is ever really 'too much'...

But....

It's more a matter of how much of the very good GPU's hypothetical performance at 1080P/1440P are you sacrificing by getting less than the 9900K...

Here are a few 1080P/1440P comparisons...( many of which make AMD fans quite angry, BTW!)...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rOVfeujof4&t=498s


Many folks seemed certain the difference between AMD and INtel is but 5-10%, and, when confronted with CPU comparisons using top GPUs show the difference can be 30+%, folks then complain ad nauseam that 'the settings were not high enough to shift the load mostly to the GPU', etc...

The R5-1600 gives 'good performance, but, it would be hard to deny that in some games at even 1440P, it might be down some 30%...; will this matter if getting 100 fps on a 60 Hz monitor? No. WIll it matter when trying to achieve 144 FPS minimums for a 144 Hz monitor? It sure might.

Pairing a 9900K with a GTX1050 seems odd, as would pairing an R3-1200 with an RTX2080Ti....; most rigs are well in between of either, with lesser degrees of 'oddness', and, all opinions are only that.