Will This Combination Be Bottlenecked?

[thevillieater]

A Pentium g3258 and a sapphire r9 280x vapor x.

Thank You

 

[unknownofprob]

A bottleneck with the CPU is ONLY caused if it is at or close to 100% usage currently, or if it is throttling at a way too high temperature. If currently that isn't the case, what's the CPU to do with limiting the GPU? Nothing.

 

[Archaic59]

For games that use only one or two cores it's fine but games that can use 4 cores will bottleneck some.

 

[boosted1g]

Depends on the game.

Less demanding older games will be just fine.
CPU demanding games it will bottleneck. Does not matter how much you overclock that Pentium, at the end of the day it still only has 2 cores/threads.

 

[Eggz]

Yes, sometimes.

That CPU won't be able to feed information to the GPU fast enough in all uses. But it will feed it fast enough often, and it won't fall short by much when it does fall short.

The real problem with that CPU isn't about bottlenecking the GPU. It's more about the fact that the CPU's resources will be entirely used up processing some games. The thing just isn't powerful enough to run an entire category of demanding games as well as that graphics card can.

I think you'll be fine, though, if you just turn down settings. Very few titles will straight-up crash because the CPU is insufficient, though some super flashy games might do that. It will be rare.

You'll be able to play for a while and save to upgrade the CPU. Then, once you do, it will be faster than you need for the 280x. By that time, you'll also want to upgrade the GPU. So save for a CPU that will be a little more than you need at the time you get it, just to plan ahead to your next GPU upgrade.