What is the speed bottleneck for a modern PC in everyday tasks (non-gaming)?

[Matteman87]

Hi,

I was wondering out of curiosity what the limiting speed factor is nowadays for everyday tasks like starting the computer, browse the web etc. Let's say you are using a skylake i7 6700k and an SSD.

The reason I was wondering is when everyone went over from HDD to SATA SSD:s we saw a huge increase in speeds, however in all the benchmarks of NVME SSD:s which are supposed to be several times faster than SATA we barely seem to notice any speed increase outside of synthetic benchmark compared to SATA SSD:s. Is the CPU the bottleneck nowadays?

 

[Bearmann]

I would say the the CPU if you are not connected to the internet. For home users, its likely internet speed including the server that is feeding you the content. With storage, it can be the speed of the supply, e.g card reader, other storage device, internet download speed, etc.