Will the AMD FX 8320 bottleneck a Nvidia GTX 980

[AMD_Liquidify]

I am planning to buy a GTX 980, however, I do not know whether it will work ok. The i5-3570k seems to work fine with the GTX 980 and since the FX 8320 brings the same performance. I don't think it would bottleneck. Can anyone confirm this for me?

 

[de5_Roy]

if you want one, have the money and the psu for it, buy anyway. it will bottleneck but not so much that games become utterly unplayable.

 

[PCBuilderProbs]

it will bottleneck, but you can overcome a good amount of that bottleneck by overclocking it

 

[DeathRabit]

I personally will not go more than GTX 970 with FX even when OC.
GTX 970 or GTX 980 paired with FX will be have similar FPS.
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GTX 970 OC + Witcher 3 and many CPUs
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GTX 970 OC + Battlefield Hardline and many CPUs
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[maddogfargo]

No, it won't bottleneck.

Overclocked an FX 8 core will be within 3-5% of an i5 or i7.

I recommend you check multiple sources, not just one game.

Tom's recent reviews of FarCry4 and Shadow of Mordor are good examples. FarCry was 73-74 FPS vs 78-79 FPS on average. 4-5 FPS...right at 5.5%. Shadow of MorDor was within 1-2 FPS of each other.

 

[swilczak]

It's not a bottleneck at all if you upgrade to Windows 10. I'm seeing 20-30 fps differences in a lot of games I'm playing after the windows 10 upgrade. My minimum frame rates are a lot higher than they were before, which is nice because games play a lot smoother and don't stutter like they did before. I have a fx 8320 paired with a gtx 970.