[SOLVED] Will an i5-4460 heavily bottleneck an RTX 2070 at 1080p gaming?

[bp1696]

So I'm thinking of upgrading from my GTX 970 to an RTX 2070. I have an old i5-4460. My plan is to play Anthem when it comes out. I have a 1080p@144hz monitor, though I don't mind 60fps gaming. Will the i5 severely affect performance?

Also, does bottlenecking make performance worse than it would be on a lower card? Or does it just not let the card work to its full potential?

Oh one more thing, this is the card I'm looking at: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814137366

And this is (I think), my exact case: https://www.thermaltake.com/products-model_Specification.aspx?id=C_00002305

Will the card fit in that? Thank you.

 

[Phaaze88]

https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/anthem/16140
Unless you want to play at ~30fps, you need to upgrade that cpu to one of your current platform's I7s or one of the newer 8th and 9th gen I5, but the latter means getting a new motherboard and ram.
The gpu will fit in the case though.

 

[loki1944]

Bottle-necking just keeps the card from working at full potential. You aren't going to be playing @30FPS due to bottlenecking, you'll lose some FPS compared to newer CPUs, but you should be closer to 60FPS worst case. I've got a truly old i7 960 using PCIE 2.0 which is usually usually within a few FPS of my i7 4770K, i7 6700 and i5 6600K systems with anything up to a GTX 1080 (~GTX 2070 performance); once at GTX 1080 I lose more significant frames, but that is more due to PCIE 2.0 than the CPU bottleneck. Also if you DSR to 1440p the CPU bottleneck will be even smaller vs newer processors.

 

[tennis2]

Yes

 

[bp1696]

Thanks guys, I ordered the 2070. I'm going to see how it does for me with the Anthem demo (and it also comes with an Anthem code!) but I'm basically planning on an i7-8700k at this point.

 

[confish02]

Thanks guys, I ordered the 2070. I'm going to see how it does for me with the Anthem demo (and it also comes with an Anthem code!) but I'm basically planning on an i7-8700k at this point.

Hi, how did the system perform with the 4460, and if you have upgraded your cpu since how much better is the performance? I'm thinking of upgrading to a 2060 from a 960 and upgrading my i5 4460 down the line but worried the gpu purchase will be a waste if I suffer serious bottlenecking. Thanks!

 

[fraserlawrence]

TLDR: How much gaming FPS improvement will I get from upgrading my i5-4690k to a better matched CPU such as Ryzen 3800x paired with rtx 2070 super at 1440p (g-sync)on games with ray tracing such as shadow of tomb raider?

I have a similar related question: I've upgraded my graphics card to an rtx 2070 super. Tom's has a CPU chart and my CPU still is barely holding its place in the highest tier category, but is now 5-6 generations old. Will CPU stutter be an issue? What sort of FPS improvement would I see running games such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider if I upgraded to a current gen processor with more than 4 cores/ 4 threads and at a higher clock speed closer to 5 GHz such as Ryzen 3000 series? I'm particularly interested in ray-tracing performance in games. I would like the CPU to "get out of the way of the GPU" but don't want to spend more than I have to on it and won't use it for anything but AAA gaming. I don't stream or need to have multiple applications running concurrently. I really want to focus on primarily the best game performance/dollar CPU with the RTX 2070 super and ray tracing. These are some games I'm most interested in playing now:

Shadow of the tomb raider
Control
Wolfenstein: young blood
Cyberpunk
Far cry 5 / new dawn
AC odyssey

My current PC specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (4 core 4 thread overclocked to 4.4 GHz)
Video Card: RTX 2070 Super (stock from nvidia)
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE 78.1 CFM CPU Cooler (
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

 

[John Chesterfield]

Well, I had a similar system to yours and only upgraded the CPU as I got it cheap. I had a 4690k @ 4.6Ghz and bought a 2080. I thought it was okay, but BF5 wasn't as smooth as it could have been. Dropped in the i7 and a totally different gaming experience, I'm running at 1440p with G-Sync just like you, so I can get away with a 4790k @ stock speeds, haven't felt the need to overclock it, yet. Now the 2080 can breathe a bit and isn't anywhere near as held back.

So if you were to upgrade to a Ryzen, you'd see a reasonable fps improvement in most games but you'd also have much more smoothness and fluidity. I thought G-Sync would take care of that totally, but now I'm also really just seeing that particular feature at work, the adaptive sync means that the 90-110 fps I get now with the 4790k looks pretty similar to the 130-150 fps I'd get with a newer chip. Games need at least 8 threads nowadays, much as it was hard to part with that 4690k, it was a great chip.

I'd go for it if I were you, it'll be better and smoother.

 

[fraserlawrence]

Well, I had a similar system to yours and only upgraded the CPU as I got it cheap. I had a 4690k @ 4.6Ghz and bought a 2080. I thought it was okay, but BF5 wasn't as smooth as it could have been. Dropped in the i7 and a totally different gaming experience, I'm running at 1440p with G-Sync just like you, so I can get away with a 4790k @ stock speeds, haven't felt the need to overclock it, yet. Now the 2080 can breathe a bit and isn't anywhere near as held back.

So if you were to upgrade to a Ryzen, you'd see a reasonable fps improvement in most games but you'd also have much more smoothness and fluidity. I thought G-Sync would take care of that totally, but now I'm also really just seeing that particular feature at work, the adaptive sync means that the 90-110 fps I get now with the 4790k looks pretty similar to the 130-150 fps I'd get with a newer chip. Games need at least 8 threads nowadays, much as it was hard to part with that 4690k, it was a great chip.

I'd go for it if I were you, it'll be better and smoother.

What would you guess was the fps improvement you saw going from the i5-4690k @4.6 GHz with 4 core/4 thread to the i7-4790k at stock 3.5 Ghz with 4 cores 8 threads? Or is it not so much to do with fps as other things like stutter? And my god man why haven't you overclocked that 4790k to 4.7 Ghz :-D 😎 I mean they called it "Devils Canyon" and it was expensive but one of best overclocking chip of its time, they still sellused on ebay for more than $200

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Start a new thread please instead of posting in one that's 7 months old and solved.