Will an I5 2550k bottleneck a Gtx 1070?

[Wakobi Junior]

Hello I have an option to upgrade my cpu or gpu

I currently have an Rx480 4Gb Vram and an i5 2550k 3.4Ghz

I wanted to upgrade my GPU because it seems more important to gaming, but I heard I will be getting bottlenecked hard. Am I underestimating my rx480 and should just get a better cpu?

All I care about is 60fps 1080, high settings.

[Wakobi Junior]

引用自 ⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧：

引用自 papa pen：

Oh is that what mid level means? I thought you meant medium settings

1 thing.. we know your settings/resolution.
But what games u r playing/wanna play?

Upcoming triple AAA games my next game I'm gonna get will be Shadow of War Middle Earth

引用自 vadim：

引用自 papa pen：

They seem equal to me 1060 and Rx480, I heard 1060 does better in dx11 and rx480 does better in dx12 vulkan

As a general rule, that is true.

Do you think a cpu or gpu ugrade would be more helpful?

[Big Boom Boom]

GPU upgrade is always more beneficial.

[vadim]

Honestly, I don't understand why do you want to upgrade. You should have decent FPS in your games. Before upgrade anything, you need to create list of your problems with games to decide what do you want to upgrade first.

[Squirrell]

Yes, if you just want 60fps 1080p at high settings you have enough cpu and gpu now. You may not have your system set up correctly.

If you think performance is poor then install msi-afterburner and look at which component is causing the lag.

With the right motherboard you can easily speed up the cpu which would improve performance. Do you know the mobo model (I haven't read the whole thread)?

I have an i7-2600. I just go into bios and click on the high performance button. Done.

There are faster cpu's for your mobo second-hand on ebay. If you want new then you would have to jump to an i5-7600k or i7-7700k to see a big performance boost over what you have now.

The next step up in a gpu is a 1070. It is possible that the RX480 is a bit slow. Msi-afterburner will confirm that though.

[Wakobi Junior]

引用自 vadim：

Honestly, I don't understand why do you want to upgrade. You should have decent FPS in your games. Before upgrade anything, you need to create list of your problems with games to decide what do you want to upgrade first.

Your actually right dude, I'm overthinking this and my fps are great just occasional drops. I just worry when I don't see my cpu in minimum requirements

引用自 Squirrell：

Yes, if you just want 60fps 1080p at high settings you have enough cpu and gpu now. You may not have your system set up correctly.

If you think performance is poor then install msi-afterburner and look at which component is causing the lag.

With the right motherboard you can easily speed up the cpu which would improve performance. Do you know the mobo model (I haven't read the whole thread)?

I have an i7-2600. I just go into bios and click on the high performance button. Done.

There are faster cpu's for your mobo second-hand on ebay. If you want new then you would have to jump to an i5-7600k or i7-7700k to see a big performance boost over what you have now.

The next step up in a gpu is a 1070. It is possible that the RX480 is a bit slow. Msi-afterburner will confirm that though.

My i5 occasionally causes fps drops under 60, I have msi afterburner, I notice the bad FPS when the cpu usage is higher than the GPU usage

[Squirrell]

Occasional fps drops is what i5's often do.

The individual thread loads is what is important - cpu1 thru 4. If any are running at 100% and the gpu is less than 90%, that's a potential cpu issue.

If both cpu and gpu are low, that's a potential memory issue. Use resmon to check how much free memory there is.

If you run your system in high performance mode the average increase is from 6700 to 8100. That's a big gain. (source: passmark benchmark charts)

[Wakobi Junior]

引用自 Squirrell：

Occasional fps drops is what i5's often do.

The individual thread loads is what is important - cpu1 thru 4. If any are running at 100% and the gpu is less than 90%, that's a potential cpu issue.

If both cpu and gpu are low, that's a potential memory issue. Use resmon to check how much free memory there is.

If you run your system in high performance mode the average increase is from 6700 to 8100. That's a big gain. (source: passmark benchmark charts)

What do you mean by memory? RAM?

[vadim]

引用自 Squirrell：

Occasional fps drops is what i5's often do.

That shouldn't happen. At least, shouldn't happen too much - i5-2xxx has lower single-threaded performance than model models and its possible it has no enough raw processing power sometimes (namely because of this reason Ryzen rigs usually have lower min FPS). But i5-2xxx should be relatively as good as appropriate Ryzen. They have similar single-threaded performance.

[Squirrell]

i5 versus i7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhaB1dqYv_I

引用自 papa pen：

What do you mean by memory? RAM?

Yes. RAM stands for random access memory.

When you run resmon click on the memory tab.
The color bar at the bottom shows memory usage,
There should be blue (standby and free) ram available for optimum performance. The total is shown under the bar.
The hard faults/sec count should be near zero - a positive value means the game is tryiing to access data in memory but the data has been swapped out to disk - because the pc hasn't got enough ram. The data has to be retrieved from disk.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Firstly

Overclocking will not have the overclock in use 24/7, as long as Intel Speedstep is enabled it will downclock until its needed. But overclocking also depends on the motherboard

Secondly
a GTX 1070 is more in line for resolutions Above 1080p, so a Bottleneck could potentially happen.

I use an overclocked i5 2500k and a 1060 6GB, both do wonderfully @ 1080p

If anything, you could always upgrade to a SB i7 via ebay or some such instead of going through the cost and hassle of a new system.

[Wakobi Junior]

引用自 Squirrell：

引用自 papa pen：

What do you mean by memory? RAM?

Yes. RAM stands for random access memory.

When you run resmon click on the memory tab.
The color bar at the bottom shows memory usage,
There should be blue (standby and free) ram available for optimum performance. The total is shown under the bar.
The hard faults/sec count should be near zero - a positive value means the game is tryiing to access data in memory but the data has been swapped out to disk - because the pc hasn't got enough ram. The data has to be retrieved from disk.

I have 16gbs of RAM so I am fine with that

引用自 Kalsolette：

Probably not by much. Overclocked the 2500K can be a little faster than the 3570K due to it not getting so hot. I have a 2500K too, and it works great with everything I throw at it. The 1070 isn't much of a jump over a 480 though.

Ya your probably right man thanks, but in the future should I be doing a cpu upgrade? Btw what's your GPU?

[[wan-clan.org] Gordy Freeman]

A 2500K, overclocked, can run a 1080 Ti at 100% load.

I'd say focus on the graphics as that's what you're complaining about.