Will this bottleneck?

[DamCam]

hello, I am building a gaming computer and I'm set on the Gigabyte AORUS Radeon RX 580 8GB Graphic Card, I believe it will be a great choice for 1080p gaming at a great price, here is the amazon link, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y46X4L9/?coliid=I1BXUJ9REH1708&colid=1UQ451QSG2Q5H&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it . I was also set on the AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Processor as i believed it would be a good fit with the GPU. But, now im considering AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Processor, it would have a higher cpu score, acording to 3dmark, about a gain of a 1,600. But im wondering if the GPU would bottle-neck the CPU, my gut tells me it would but i want to get other opinions. the 7 1700x is about $25 more than the 5 2600x, I don't mind the price difference if it would help improve performance without bottle-necking.

 

[Dunlop0078]

The RX 580 is a very good card for the money.

The 2600x or 1700x would fine. The 1700x is has 8 cores 16 threads, the 2600x has 6 cores and 12 threads but higher stock clocks. The 2600x and 1700x are the same as the 1700 and 2600, the only difference is stock clock speeds. The non x models tend to be better value, especially if you plan to overclock.

You want to know if the GPU bottlenecks the CPU? I guess it does but im not sure why that matters to you. All that means is the CPU would be capable of utilizing a more powerful GPU if you had one. There is always a bottleneck, in a gaming system that bottleneck is ideally the GPU. If you meant it the other way around, I cant think of any game where the 1700x or the 2600x would bottleneck an RX 580.

 

[DamCam]

The RX 580 is a very good card for the money.

The 2600x or 1700x would fine. The 1700x is has 8 cores 16 threads, the 2600x has 6 cores and 12 threads but higher stock clocks. The 2600x and 1700x are the same as the 1700 and 2600, the only difference is stock clock speeds. The non x models tend to be better value, especially if you plan to overclock.

You want to know if the GPU bottlenecks the CPU? I guess it does but im not sure why that matters to you. All that means is the CPU would be capable of utilizing a more powerful GPU if you had one. There is always a bottleneck, in a gaming system that bottleneck is ideally the GPU. If you meant it the other way around, I cant think of any game where the 1700x or the 2600x would bottleneck an RX 580.

Ok, thanks, but now I don't know which cpu to pair with the gpu. Which would you choose? I was thinking the 1700x because it has more cores and threads.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Hard to say. I would probably go with the 1700x. But the 2600x might perform slightly better in say gaming due to it's higher clock speeds, which equates to better single thread performance.

It's again hard to say but for strictly gaming the 2600x might be the better CPU now and into the future. So for gaming it's really hard for me to recommend one over the other.