I've been a very happy 1080p gamer so far, but now I bought a new TV and ofc 65" TVs are only available in 4k, sigh... Long story short, I wanna upgrade my old rig to have better picture quality, but only the GPU if possible and nothing extreme. My current rig is i5-9400f, 16GB RAM and a GTX 1660 6GB.
I've been researching the Internet for the past 4 hours and decided that the RTX 3070 would be something for me. I never play on Ultra settings and I never go beyond 60fps. As far as I've seen on the benchmarking sites, a 3070 should give me a smooth medium/high settings 60fps experience in all the games that I like. I plan to combine that with some undervolting to give me some 5-10'C lower temps and that should do it for me. I don't really wanna OC the GPU if I don't have to.
A 3070 Ti is out of the question cuz it's 100+ Euro more expensive here where I live and the difference is minimal as far as I can see in the reviews. I know that a 3080 "would be better for gaming at 4k" but it's too strong and too expensive for my needs.
So, let's say I go with the RTX 3070. Here are my questions which to which Google didn't find me an answer:
1. Can I trust the benchmarking sites and can a 3070 really run in 4k on medium/high while delivering steady 60fps? Cuz I know this GPU is meant for 1440p gaming in the first place. All the YouTube videos run tests only in 4k with everything on Ultra settings, so that didn't help me much.
2. I did a research on i5-9400f + RTX 3070 bottlenecking, and got some results that I don't understand. In all games that I tried benchmarking the result was something like GPU usage=100%, CPU usage=94%. Like, my CPU was getting bottlenecked, not the GPU. Is that something bad and will it compromise my 4k experience? I really don't wanna upgrade my CPU as well and if this CPU isn't good enough for 4k gaming then I'll just probably give up on upgrading my system. So please tell me it's a good CPU and that it'll do just fine
I've been researching the Internet for the past 4 hours and decided that the RTX 3070 would be something for me. I never play on Ultra settings and I never go beyond 60fps. As far as I've seen on the benchmarking sites, a 3070 should give me a smooth medium/high settings 60fps experience in all the games that I like. I plan to combine that with some undervolting to give me some 5-10'C lower temps and that should do it for me. I don't really wanna OC the GPU if I don't have to.
A 3070 Ti is out of the question cuz it's 100+ Euro more expensive here where I live and the difference is minimal as far as I can see in the reviews. I know that a 3080 "would be better for gaming at 4k" but it's too strong and too expensive for my needs.
So, let's say I go with the RTX 3070. Here are my questions which to which Google didn't find me an answer:
1. Can I trust the benchmarking sites and can a 3070 really run in 4k on medium/high while delivering steady 60fps? Cuz I know this GPU is meant for 1440p gaming in the first place. All the YouTube videos run tests only in 4k with everything on Ultra settings, so that didn't help me much.
2. I did a research on i5-9400f + RTX 3070 bottlenecking, and got some results that I don't understand. In all games that I tried benchmarking the result was something like GPU usage=100%, CPU usage=94%. Like, my CPU was getting bottlenecked, not the GPU. Is that something bad and will it compromise my 4k experience? I really don't wanna upgrade my CPU as well and if this CPU isn't good enough for 4k gaming then I'll just probably give up on upgrading my system. So please tell me it's a good CPU and that it'll do just fine