Question Ryzen 5 5600X powerful enough for rtx 3080 12 gb?

[SpectralScarfs]

Recently bought a 3080 wondering if my system is good enough
Ryzen 5 5600x
Gigabyte X570 Mobo
32gb ram clocked at 3200 mhz
1tb nvme
Evga 850W GQ gold unit
Mainly going to do 1440P gaming

 

[Darkbreeze]

Should be fine. Is it going to be "top tier gaming", no, but you should have plenty of processing power there depending on your in game settings and configuration.

 

[kgt1182]

No bottleneck; a 5600X is more than enough foran RTX 3080 at 1440p.
For most games, the bottleneck will be the monitor's refresh rate.

A faster GPU will always perform faster than a slower GPU even on a bottlenecked CPU. Faster CPUs can raise this FPS cap a little more, this is usually seen for running high refresh rates above 240FPS on lower resolutions such as 1080p.

This is because GPU load scales with resolution, but game logic stays the same and runs on CPU. At 1440p your machine will be able to use most of the RTX 3080 graphical capacity.

You can test for yourself: If the FPS increases further when going down to 1080p (say 100 to 160), that means your system is still GPU limited. If the FPS stays about the same whether at 1440p or 1080p (say 300 to 320) means there is probably no bottlenecking.

 

[Darkbreeze]

So did you feel like you got clarification, or did you want some graphs and things to prove what we've already told you? Just asking.

 

[SpectralScarfs]

So did you feel like you got clarification, or did you want some graphs and things to prove what we've already told you? Just asking.

Got clarification, as I really only play in 1440P so there probaly will be 0 bottle neck or a minimal ammount. and I prefer story games more

 

[Darkbreeze]

Cool man.