Will an i5 6600K bottleneck a 1080Ti ?

[GreaK213]

Hello, I would like to know if an i5 6600K would bottleneck a 1080Ti. I'm probably upgrading my gpu this summer and would like to know if a GTX1080Ti will eventually be bottlenecked by my current CPU. I play at 1920x1080 @160Hz.
Full specs :
MOBO : Asus Maximus VIII Hero
GPU : Asus STRIX 970 4GB
CPU : Intel Core i5 6600K currently OC'd to 4.2 GHz. / Cooler : Corsair Hydro Series H80i GT
RAM : Corsair LPX 16 GB DDR4 2800 MHz (4x4)
PSU : Corsair CS750M 80PLUS Gold.
SSD : HyperX Savage 240 GB
HDD : Seagate Barracuda 1 TB

Thanks in advance,
GreaK.

 

[Seth L]

Long story short to save you time:
Nope.

 

[GreaK213]

Long story short to save you time:
Nope.

The thing is, I see people saying it will and some people say it will work like a charm.. I don't really know how bottlenecking works anyway so some details would be appreciated X).

 

[Wolfshadw]

Bottlenecks occur when you pair a low-end component with a high-end component and the low-end component significantly limits the functionality of the higher-end component. You're pairing two high-end components.

-Wolf sends

 

[sizzling]

Look at CPU benchmarks and look at minimum and average fps. There are CPU intensive games that when playing at high fps really do benefit from an i7.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Gaming at high FPS causes CPU performance to be increasingly important. With 60 FPS gaming there is typically little difference between an i5 and i7, but if you're at 144+ fps I'd say the i5 might start to bottleneck, at least in some games.

 

[Ali Tauseef]

Bottleneck is one PC component being used too much and one too less which reduces performance. Bottleneck also varies on your resolution and game.
CPU bottleneck is decreased by a higher resolution.
The i5 6600k won't bottleneck in most cases.

 

[GreaK213]

Bottlenecks occur when you pair a low-end component with a high-end component and the low-end component significantly limits the functionality of the higher-end component. You're pairing two high-end components.

-Wolf sends

That's what I thought. But I've been looking up online for some benchmarks and on BF1 for example, the cpu is on 100% usage although the 1080 (he was pairing a 6600K and a 1080) was at 80% ; Isn't that a bottleneck ?

 

[sizzling]

Have a look at this, BF1 minimum fps is 19fps higher on the 6700k http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2673-battlefield-1-cpu-benchmark-dx11-vs-dx12-i5-i7-fx/page-2

 

[Ali Tauseef]

Bottlenecks occur when you pair a low-end component with a high-end component and the low-end component significantly limits the functionality of the higher-end component. You're pairing two high-end components.

-Wolf sends

That's what I thought. But I've been looking up online for some benchmarks and on BF1 for example, the cpu is on 100% usage although the 1080 (he was pairing a 6600K and a 1080) was at 80% ; Isn't that a bottleneck ?

Yes that is.

 

[GreaK213]

Gaming at high FPS causes CPU performance to be increasingly important. With 60 FPS gaming there is typically little difference between an i5 and i7, but if you're at 144+ fps I'd say the i5 might start to bottleneck, at least in some games.

But will it completely kill my fps ? Will it change from the 970 ? Is it simply worth it ?? I don't want to spend 800$ for nothing 😛

 

[Tom Tancredi]

A bottleneck is .. take a bottle of liquid, turn it upside down, does it all spill out or does it take time to 'flow' through the 'neck' of the bottle?

The same idea is applied from A to B in a system. Will A amount of data when sent to B 'bottleneck' and cause it to 'take time' to 'flow' through.

This can be reading the 0's and 1's from the Hard Drive (hence why people get SSDs)
This can be when the CPU is passing data to the GPU, SoundCard, Wifi, etc.
This can be when the CPU is WAITING for the Wifi / NIC to pull the next information
and so on

It is best to match comparable spec parts, a 1080TI is waaaayyyy overkill, and yes eventually the i5 will 'cap' because it has less Hyperthreads to process Data as compared to a i7 (8 'Cores' as compared to '4' cores or lanes of traffic for the processor to process). It just depends on what your trying to do and how much you push the system .

If for example your trying to stream your gaming, record it, run a stream of music, be on twitch, have your antivirus protecting, running email in the background, having your instant messages runing, trying to keep up with your tweets / twitter ALL with wanting them on a QUAD 32" Curved Displays, - Yeah the 1080TI can handle it, but the poor i5 can't, because too much demand is being asked for to handle ALL that stuff.

That be a example of bottlenecking the CPU.

 

[GreaK213]

For the guy that was having a bottleneck, he actually paired a 1070 and an i5 6600K.. Not a 1080, my bad but wouldn't it be even worse with a 1080 ? or even with a 1080Ti? x). He had 8 GB Ram though, would it change anything ?

 

[GreaK213]

A bottleneck is .. take a bottle of liquid, turn it upside down, does it all spill out or does it take time to 'flow' through the 'neck' of the bottle?

The same idea is applied from A to B in a system. Will A amount of data when sent to B 'bottleneck' and cause it to 'take time' to 'flow' through.

This can be reading the 0's and 1's from the Hard Drive (hence why people get SSDs)
This can be when the CPU is passing data to the GPU, SoundCard, Wifi, etc.
This can be when the CPU is WAITING for the Wifi / NIC to pull the next information
and so on

It is best to match comparable spec parts, a 1080TI is waaaayyyy overkill, and yes eventually the i5 will 'cap' because it has less Hyperthreads to process Data as compared to a i7 (8 'Cores' as compared to '4' cores or lanes of traffic for the processor to process). It just depends on what your trying to do and how much you push the system .

If for example your trying to stream your gaming, record it, run a stream of music, be on twitch, have your antivirus protecting, running email in the background, having your instant messages runing, trying to keep up with your tweets / twitter ALL with wanting them on a QUAD 32" Curved Displays, - Yeah the 1080TI can handle it, but the poor i5 can't, because too much demand is being asked for to handle ALL that stuff.

That be a example of bottlenecking the CPU.

I see what you mean but I don't stream or record, edit anything. I simply game 😀. I might take the 1080 if the Ti is way too overkill but I don't really know now.. all of this is confusing x) Some people say no, some say yeah it will bottleneck 😛 hard to chose now.

 

[sizzling]

And Fallout 4

 

[GreaK213]

And Fallout 4

On which GPU were those benchmarks done ? Was it a 1080 ?

 

[sizzling]

Sorry forgot to link the article, its a 980Ti

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference

Did you see the BF1 graph too

 

[GreaK213]

Sorry forgot to link the article, its a 980Ti

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference

Did you see the BF1 graph too

No I didn't. But yeah now I'm clearly hesitating in wether I should get that 1080Ti / 1080 or not..

 

[Tom Tancredi]

For the guy that was having a bottleneck, he actually paired a 1070 and an i5 6600K.. Not a 1080, my bad but wouldn't it be even worse with a 1080 ? or even with a 1080Ti? x). He had 8 GB Ram though, would it change anything ?

Most AAA titles are now minimally saying to play you need 12GB or more of RAM to 'just play the game', even if it was 8GB, then what memory does Windows use? Your Sound card? Your icons? If you had "only" 8GB of RAM yes that would change alot, as well as what game it was AND further what else (see my other post) people 'do' when gaming.

If you watch any of the Twitch Streamers you will see they playing music, checking their feeds, playing the game, got IMs, and a whole lot of other things going on AT THE SAME TIME, that requires alot of RAM.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

.... It just depends on what your trying to do and how much you push the system .

If for example your trying to stream your gaming, record it, run a stream of music, be on twitch, have your antivirus protecting, running email in the background, having your instant messages runing, trying to keep up with your tweets / twitter ALL with wanting them on a QUAD 32" Curved Displays, - Yeah the 1080TI can handle it, but the poor i5 can't, because too much demand is being asked for to handle ALL that stuff.

That be a example of bottlenecking the CPU.

I see what you mean but I don't stream or record, edit anything. I simply game 😀. I might take the 1080 if the Ti is way too overkill but I don't really know now.. all of this is confusing x) Some people say no, some say yeah it will bottleneck 😛 hard to chose now.

Well again if your not pushing your system then NO it wont' bottleneck and neither will a 1060 (which I have) nor will a 1070. Heck you could drop down to a 1050TI and be all happy and such gaming. Spending $2000 on a high end Video Card doesn't mean anything, if your just using it on a 24" Display at 1080P and nothing else,. just means you spent $2000. It doesn't make the games perse better or bullet proof. PC side of the gaming market is a SHORT lifespan for the same level of gaming you STARTED playing at when 3 years later new AAA title comes out and you want to play, and notice the lag difference (example those whom were perfectly happy with BF3, then cried havok about how bad BF4 was but was because the SAME system couldn't handle the heavier demands of BF4 and so on).

Again, the advice given is, match equally and depends HOW you use it and what you want to do with it. Spending Thousands of dollars doesn't mean anything if your not 'pushing' the envelope, you get the SAME game play with a system UNDER $1000 for any common gamer

 

[sizzling]

Ok different way of looking at it. Let's say your CPU gives you an average of 100fps. You could get a 1080Ti and run ultra settings or a 1080 and run very high settings. Is the difference between very high and ultra worth it? If you found the 1080 slightly lacking at any time just drop a setting or two.

 

[GreaK213]

.... It just depends on what your trying to do and how much you push the system .

If for example your trying to stream your gaming, record it, run a stream of music, be on twitch, have your antivirus protecting, running email in the background, having your instant messages runing, trying to keep up with your tweets / twitter ALL with wanting them on a QUAD 32" Curved Displays, - Yeah the 1080TI can handle it, but the poor i5 can't, because too much demand is being asked for to handle ALL that stuff.

That be a example of bottlenecking the CPU.

I see what you mean but I don't stream or record, edit anything. I simply game 😀. I might take the 1080 if the Ti is way too overkill but I don't really know now.. all of this is confusing x) Some people say no, some say yeah it will bottleneck 😛 hard to chose now.

Well again if your not pushing your system then NO it wont' bottleneck and neither will a 1060 (which I have) nor will a 1070. Heck you could drop down to a 1050TI and be all happy and such gaming. Spending $2000 on a high end Video Card doesn't mean anything, if your just using it on a 24" Display at 1080P and nothing else,. just means you spent $2000. It doesn't make the games perse better or bullet proof. PC side of the gaming market is a SHORT lifespan for the same level of gaming you STARTED playing at when 3 years later new AAA title comes out and you want to play, and notice the lag difference (example those whom were perfectly happy with BF3, then cried havok about how bad BF4 was but was because the SAME system couldn't handle the heavier demands of BF4 and so on).

Again, the advice given is, match equally and depends HOW you use it and what you want to do with it. Spending Thousands of dollars doesn't mean anything if your not 'pushing' the envelope, you get the SAME game play with a system UNDER $1000 for any common gamer

I fully understand but, I'm not spending 2000$ though ? It's very expensive, 800$, that's the most expensive gpu I could ever get in my life but yeah if it doesn't make me benefit much, I might go for th 1080 which has dropped 200 $ and be happy for the following 4-5 years x)

 

[GreaK213]

Ok different way of looking at it. Let's say your CPU gives you an average of 100fps. You could get a 1080Ti and run ultra settings or a 1080 and run very high settings. Is the difference between very high and ultra worth it? If you found the 1080 slightly lacking at any time just drop a setting or two.

I don't even think a 1070 would lack in any game currently (for 1080p or even 1440p gaming) ; Both 1080 and 1080Ti are beasts.. I just don't want to waste money on something I won't fully use.. if my cpu will bottleneck the Ti, I'll get the 1080 and hopefully minimize the bottleneck..

 

[Gabriel_51]

I have the i5 6600k oc to 4.38 went from 1080 to the ti.. not much difference.. other friends have a i7 and gett same or fps as i do.. some titles.. so i would say the i5 doesnt necessarily bottle neck.. just wont do much for u when its running at 100% ..


Get the i7.. i want to.

 

[Pickle788]

Long story short to save you time:
Nope.

The thing is, I see people saying it will and some people say it will work like a charm.. I don't really know how bottlenecking works anyway so some details would be appreciated X).

I'm running i5 6600k @4.5 gtx 980ti at 1440p
In bf1 CPU on all 4 core it's pinned at 100%
Gpu 80-90%
So yes the 6600k is a bottleneck
My mate has same set up and he gets frame drops due to CPU bottleneck
So the answer is yes the i5 6600k is no longer enough for today's games