Will it bottleneck?

TheDudeLv

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Will my AMD A6-3500 4GHz bottleneck ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon RX 470 4GB which im willing to buy? I have only 1366x768 monitor, so idk if it will. Hoping to get answers :)
 
AT that resolution, I don't think you'll even get any bottleneck from the CPU side. Why you'd want to pair an A6-3500 with a near top tier AMD GPU, is out of my comprehension but I assume the only real bottleneck would come from your PSU judging how you have a budget APU to work with, the PSU might also be old enough to not output the right amount of power to the GPU.

Mind you the A6-3500 is rated at 2.4GHz(max) so I'm also curious to learn how you managed a 4GHz clock on it. Mind sharing your full system's specs?
 
The CPU would bottleneck it at most resolutions, but I'm not sure about 1366x768. Probably you'll still get a high enough frame rate that your monitor is the bottleneck.

You do need to understand what a bottleneck means, though. It's the component that's limiting your performance. What this means is that if you put an RX470 in the system and the CPU is the bottleneck then the RX470 performs no worse than an RX480, or a GTX1080, or even a Titan X.

What this means in practical terms is that an RX 470 might also be no better than an RX 460. It ultimately comes down to price: if you can find an RX 470 for less than an RX 460, then go for it. If you can't, then under the idea that the RX 460 is the same as the next lower tier card then you could replace it with that. At some point this needs to stop, though, because you'd argue that your current GPU is already the most that your CPU can handle which implies that no upgrade is sensible. It sounds like you're using integrated graphics since you have an APU, and if that's the case then you can certainly upgrade to discrete graphics I'm just not sure if the RX 470 or RX 460 would be distinguishable. At that resolution, I'd probably favor the 460.

On the other hand, if you have any plans to upgrade other components then you should try to take that all into account. For example, if you want to get a 1080p monitor then you should be figuring out what works better for 1080p 60Hz rather than 1366x768 and the RX 470 is clearly better. However, to actually make it all work you'd probably want to upgrade the CPU and, realistically, the best upgrade path is a new CPU, motherboard, and possibly RAM as all modern platforms now use DDR4. It's possible you could find some used hardware for, say, Haswell and pick up a cheap Core i5, pair it with a used or new Haswell-era motherboard, and re-use your DDR3.
 


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and i also have evga 500w power supply as its recomended. I overclocked my cpu from bios 😀
link: http://imgur.com/a/beKgM
 


Ill soon upgrade to intel core i7 5th gen or and i5 6th gen or maybe if ill dont have that much money ill get intel pentium g4560 as its best budget cpu.
 


Yeah, maybe RX 460 would be better, because then i would have left money for new HDD, cuz mine sucks now. At YouTube RX 470 performs better for sure, but in my case RX 460 would perform same?
 
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