[SOLVED] Will my Ryzen 5 3600 bottleneck a RTX 3080?

[Unbounds]

I have a Ryzen 3600 and a RTX 2070 Super running at 1440p resolution on three monitors. If I upgrade to an 3080, will it bottleneck my cpu? Should I upgrade my cpu first rather than getting a gpu?

 

[idkwhattonamethisacc]

No a 3600 shouldnt bottleneck a 3080 but why are you asking this if the 3080 isnt even available??? xD, ah well i guess the 6800xt is a good substitute but no the 3600 wont bottleneck that either, if you do want to upgrade cpu then wait for ryzen 5000 then upgrade to 5600x since that will destroy the i9 10900 in single core

 

[Unbounds]

No a 3600 shouldnt bottleneck a 3080 but why are you asking this if the 3080 isnt even available??? xD, ah well i guess the 6800xt is a good substitute but no the 3600 wont bottleneck that either, if you do want to upgrade cpu then wait for ryzen 5000 then upgrade to 5600x since that will destroy the i9 10900 in single core

Oh I know things have no availability, I'm just asking so that when things are indeed available, I wont have to hesitate in buying it at that moment. Are Radeon cards even worth it? I heard stories of games and drivers are optimized more on the nvidia side.

 

[idkwhattonamethisacc]

The radeons are more worth it due to vram but if you care about the things that cuda acceleration give you then stick with the 3080, radeon for gaming only and 3080 for other stuff that requires cuda acceleration, or not you can just buy a tesla k80 graphics card for around 100-150$ on ebay and use that as your cuda accelerator since they have a crapload of cores and its a dual gpu with 16gig of vram so if you want gaming and cuda acceleration then buy a 6800(xt) along with a tesla k80 and that would be the comprimize

 

[sizzling]

I’m running a 3700x and 3080 at 1440p and it’s an excellent combination. The most I have seen is 12 threads in use. I don’t see any reason why the 3600 would not perform similar.

With NVidia I was willing to take a bit of a risk and be an early adopter for the first time ever but I would not do that with AMD. Their track record is less consistent with both hardware and drivers. I have lost count of the threads on here of people with 5000 series cards complaining about driver issues and with some ditching their cards. I expect from initial information that Big Navi will be a good/great bit of hardware but it needs to be backed up with drivers which is going to take some time after release to see.

As for VRAM I am yet to see a benchmark show 10GB is a problem at 4K let alone 1440p. You cannot look at VRAM usage in reviews as VRAM allocated and actually needed are very different things.