[SOLVED] Will i5 10400f bottleneck an rtx 3050

[autoblogart]

Will i5 10400f bottleneck an rtx 3050 ? Or its a good combo

What do you think of this specs

Are they good for 1080p ?
I5 10400f
Rtx 3050 8gb
16 gb ddr4 ram
500 ssd nvme

 

[helper800]

I wish all this talk about bottlenecks regarding new or relatively new tech would just go away. The 10400f and a 3050 will do fine for 1080p gaming. What is your budget and country you are buying the parts from?

 

[tennis2]

YES IT WILL!!!!......In CS:GO.

For real though, like helper800 said, "bottleneck" is such a misunderstood term that people get unnecessarily worked up about. The likelihood that neither the CPU or GPU are limiting the other is rare. You can shift workload to/from a given component using in-game quality and/or resolution settings. Different games and game engines will stress one more than the other. It's not a black-and-white situation.

Also (in my experience) a given CPU will generally be paired with at least 2 different GPUs over its usable life. Unless you can predict the future, trying to perfectly balance a CPU+GPU is an exercise in failure.

• Buy a GPU that's fit for the resolution you intend to play at. Don't get too hung up on reviews' tendency to use ULTRA quality settings for their tests. Know that that's the worst-case performance metric.
• Buy a CPU that's appropriate for the remainder of your budget, but that fits your usage needs. This is where forums are helpful. So you don't end up with a 1080p gaming rig containing an RTX3080 and an i3, or going the other way with an i9 then only having enough money left for a GT1030. (Intel + Nvidia used to stay in line with discussion)

Simplified way a PC plays a game:

1. CPU figures out what needs to be in a given frame (imagine a rough sketch) based on user and game world input. Issues draw call to GPU to tell it what to render.
2. GPU receives draw call and makes a pretty picture. Sends to monitor when complete.
3. The GPU can't do any work until the CPU tells it what to draw. Raising graphics settings and/or resolution increases the complexity of the GPU's job, making it take longer to render each frame. Lowering settings decreases the complexity of the GPUs job making it take less time to render each frame.
4. If the GPU finishes rendering a frame before the CPU has finished figuring out what the next frame should contain, the GPU has to wait (<100% GPU usage).
5. Based on #3 & #4, you should be able to optimize for 90% or greater GPU usage (depending on a game's CPU stress and the CPU/GPU balance of a system)
6. CPU usage is usually reported as active time across all available threads of a CPU. Most* games don't leverage more than....6-7 threads. Monitoring CPU usage isn't really useful. It can be misleading, especially in today's high core-count CPUs.

An i5-10400 + RTX3050 is perfectly fine.

 

[Thia666]

your i5 is more than enough to be paired with rtx 3050.
you can even go with better gpu if budget is not a problem.

 

[coolraveen]

Will i5 10400f bottleneck an rtx 3050 ? Or its a good combo

What do you think of this specs

Are they good for 1080p ?
I5 10400f
Rtx 3050 8gb
16 gb ddr4 ram
500 ssd nvme

As our colleagues said pure bottleneck is misunderstood i have a Ryzen 5 3600, it gave a good fps with a 2080ti on par with a ryzen 9, when a RTX 3060 or 3070 released many budget builders wanted to upgrade or asked if we need to upgrade to 5600X, yes with 5600X there is around 15- 20 fps or even less depending upon games,
So bottleneck is visible when there is clear mismatch between a CPU and GPU, if the GPU is so strong and CPU is very weak, you will see stutters and low performance.

And as the resolution goes up the load will shift to the GPU, for eg at 1440p and 4k both the 3600 and 5600X has more or less similar FPS specially at 4K.

Now coming to your question your CPU is even capable of handling an RTX 3080. An i3 10300 is handling an RTX 3080, but all these depends upon your needs and perspectives.

 

[autoblogart]

I wish all this talk about bottlenecks regarding new or relatively new tech would just go away. The 10400f and a 3050 will do fine for 1080p gaming. What is your budget and country you are buying the parts from?

Morocco . My country is having super high prices even more than the original high prices wave of gpus in the main countries

Budget 700$

What's the good 1080p specs that are smooth 60 fps on max settings you recommend

 

[spentshells]

3050 will be great if you don't mins taking it easy on AA and turn some settings to medium

 

[coolraveen]

Morocco . My country is having super high prices even more than the original high prices wave of gpus in the main countries

Budget 700$

What's the good 1080p specs that are smooth 60 fps on max settings you recommend

Right now with the GPU shortage, only 1650 is in sale in my country and RTX 3050 with inflated prices and further the RTX 3060 which is untouchable for budget builders ,
If this is a new build you are talking about, then try getting a 1650 super, or 1660 or 1660 Super any old stock or try used market if you get a competitive price,
Or else get a APU powered by a 5600G APU and with medium 40-50 fps and tinkering a bit, then wait for a RTX 3050 or 3060 to come down.

I wont recommend a GTX 1650 or 6500XT now with the inflated prices, Am more than ok with a RX 580 or 1650 Super if you can get from a Second hand market in good condition

I have Asus tuf 1650 Super with still 1.5 years of warranty left, looking to exchange with an RTX 3050, currently its priced at 34700 INR or 461 USD.

 

[geofelt]

To answer your question:
I think 10400f and 3050 are a reasonably good balanced combo.

Some games may be cpu limited.
Think strategy,sims and mmo types.
Others, like fast action games may be graphics limited.

The cpu/gpu balance may shift during the game.

All in all, a decent combo; just my opinion.

 

[coolraveen]

To answer your question:
I think 10400f and 3050 are a reasonably good balanced combo.

Some games may be cpu limited.
Think strategy,sims and mmo types.
Others, like fast action games may be graphics limited.

The cpu/gpu balance may shift during the game.

All in all, a decent combo; just my opinion.

Actually according to tomshardware both the 3600 and 10400f coped up well with rtx 3060 and 3070

 

[tennis2]

Actually according to tomshardware both the 3600 and 10400f coped up well with rtx 3060 and 3070

That's because, as you raise resolution and/or graphics quality (as you would with higher end GPUs), the limitation swings toward the GPU (really looking at total FPS). You'll notice most 3050 reviews will be 1080p and maybe not even ultra settings at that. As you get 3060/3060Ti/3070 you start seeing 1440p and 4k tested more.