[SOLVED] Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 3070

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Will the r5 3600 bottle neck the 3070? If I were to do 1080p gaming, will it affect me very much? Same thing for the motherboard, I have a b450 tomahawk max, it only has pcie 3.0, do I need to upgrade to an x570 board with pcie 4.0? Will it affect affect me a lot if i stay with pcie 3.0?
 
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Will the r5 3600 bottle neck the 3070? If I were to do 1080p gaming, will it affect me very much? Same thing for the motherboard, I have a b450 tomahawk max, it only has pcie 3.0, do I need to upgrade to an x570 board with pcie 4.0? Will it affect affect me a lot if i stay with pcie 3.0?

The 3600 wont bottle neck a 3070 in any way you could notice...you'd have to run benchmarks against 500+ dollar cpu's to see a 3-5% difference if even that much.

As far as upgrading to a PCI-E 4.0 capable motherboard that's a difficult question right now because there is some chatter about the 3070/3080 having direct access to storage. If you're running an NVME pci-e 4.0 capable m.2 SSD you may get a performance boost over pci-e 3.0 drives and...

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A 3070 is honestly unnecessary for 1080p gaming at the moment imo. In the future, would be nice to have tho. An R5 3600 shouldn't be significantly bottlenecking a 3070, just a little bit. As for the PCIe 3.0 vs 4.0, current GPUs don't need PCIe 4.0 to get best performance. I don't expect it to be much of an issue. Worst case scenario, you can get a new motherboard in the future.
 
Will the r5 3600 bottle neck the 3070? If I were to do 1080p gaming, will it affect me very much? Same thing for the motherboard, I have a b450 tomahawk max, it only has pcie 3.0, do I need to upgrade to an x570 board with pcie 4.0? Will it affect affect me a lot if i stay with pcie 3.0?

The 3600 wont bottle neck a 3070 in any way you could notice...you'd have to run benchmarks against 500+ dollar cpu's to see a 3-5% difference if even that much.

As far as upgrading to a PCI-E 4.0 capable motherboard that's a difficult question right now because there is some chatter about the 3070/3080 having direct access to storage. If you're running an NVME pci-e 4.0 capable m.2 SSD you may get a performance boost over pci-e 3.0 drives and most certainly SATA SSDs but I would wait until some more detailed 3070/3080 reviews come out that look at that issue in detail.
 
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Does that also apply to the pcie 3.0
A 3070 is honestly unnecessary for 1080p gaming at the moment imo. In the future, would be nice to have tho. An R5 3600 shouldn't be significantly bottlenecking a 3070, just a little bit. As for the PCIe 3.0 vs 4.0, current GPUs don't need PCIe 4.0 to get best performance. I don't expect it to be much of an issue. Worst case scenario, you can get a new motherboard in the future.
Ik, but I want headroom for future upgrading. And I also want rtx without it having a huge difference in performance