Will i7 3820 bottleneck 980 Ti?

[Craig Craig]

I'm using i7 3820 @ stock Speed, will it bottleneck the 980Ti? Wonder if I have to upgrade my CPU?
Thanks in advanced.

 

[Petrossa]

Howdy

Your CPU is still plenty potent for the card you intend running. Remember that the higher the resolution you play at, the greater the load on the GPU, not the CPU.

 

[Craig Craig]

Howdy

Your CPU is still plenty potent for the card you intend running. Remember that the higher the resolution you play at, the greater the load on the GPU, not the CPU.

Thanks for the answer! One more question, as far as I understand, most of the AAA game today are GPU drains rather than CPU drains, an I correct?

 

[neieus]

That does seem to be the trend with the exception of MMO's and multiplayer games.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

Howdy

Your CPU is still plenty potent for the card you intend running. Remember that the higher the resolution you play at, the greater the load on the GPU, not the CPU.

Thanks for the answer! One more question, as far as I understand, most of the AAA game today are GPU drains rather than CPU drains, an I correct?

i''d say a bit of both, but can swing one way or the other depending on game. There are still games that dont heavily use more than 2 cores, so can be taxing on cpu's with low per-core performance, like amd cpu's. Where some games like BF4 multiplayer with more than 32 players can put quite a lot of load on even an 8 core cpu. Generally games favor high per-core performance over high core count. Your cpu is best of both worlds, good per-core performance and able to handle 8 threads. The only case where your cpu might slightly bottleneck (and this is worst case scenario and really picking the term bottleneck to death) is if you are expecting very high fps on a 1080p 144hz monitor, where overclocking your cpu might benefit.

 

[Craig Craig]

That does seem to be the trend with the exception of MMO's and multiplayer games.

Got it! Thanks very much.

 

[Craig Craig]

Thanks everyone.

 

[kcmcgrady]

Hey Craig,

I recently bought the gtx 980 ti myself and my cpu is i5-3570k, and I have had very minimal issues, only game that im having issue with right now is bf4. Other than that i have been able to run witcher 3, gta V and plenty other games on ultra with no problems, so you should be fine!

 

[Craig Craig]

Hey Craig,

I recently bought the gtx 980 ti myself and my cpu is i5-3570k, and I have had very minimal issues, only game that im having issue with right now is bf4. Other than that i have been able to run witcher 3, gta V and plenty other games on ultra with no problems, so you should be fine!

Good to know! Thanks!