Max graphics card for Intel Core i5-3570K ?

[Ocelote.12]

What card from GeForce RTX 40xx family should I buy that will not be bottlenecked by this CPU? Or maybe some Radeon?

OS is Windows 11 (using unofficial patch for older CPUs without TPM 2.0), RAM is 16 Gb. Current graphics card is GeForce GTX 1060 3Gb.

Please don't advise me to upgrade the CPU+Mobo+RAM -- I'll do it probably in the first half of 2025.

[_I_]

op has a 1060 3g
its ok for it to be cpu bottlenecked

[Guydodge]

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op has a 1060 3g
its ok for it to be cpu bottlenecked

that card is worthless now a days 3gbb is a horrible gaming experience he can easily
run a 6gb+ card with a small overclock on that cpu and it would be a massive improvement
on his gaming experience.

[BurakZG]

My advice is, buy any graphic card you can afford now. You are going to upgrade the rest of your PC in H1 2025, that is not far future. Buy good GPU and enjoy. Don't worry whether it's working 100% or not.

From my experience I had Radeon 6600XT working with Ryzen 3400G, which is only a bit faster than your CPU. Anyway, I have never seen a game being limited by CPU.
You can run any similar GPU on your PC. Nvidia 3060, 4060, Radeon 6600, 6650XT, 7600XT. After you upgrade CPU and motherboard you might get small speedup in games, and you will be happy again.

[_I_]

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op has a 1060 3g
its ok for it to be cpu bottlenecked

that card is worthless now a days 3gbb is a horrible gaming experience he can easily
run a 6gb+ card with a small overclock on that cpu and it would be a massive improvement
on his gaming experience.

for any games that need more than 3g of vram the cpu is also too weak and may not have the required instruction sets
again, it fine for the cpu it has
a better gpu may not help

[smokerob79]

had a 4670k before upgrading to a 3700x that was already replaced with a 5700x......my 4670k was bottlenecking my 1070......you dont have options with a CPU that old.....real world depending on the game you are already bottlenecking your 1060......


no matter what is said you dont have a upgrade option until you get rid of that CPU.....to be brutal you need to upgrade the CPU mother and memory BEFORE touching your GPU......

FYI on my 1070 i saw at least a 20 frame jump on every game upgrading my CPU mother and memory before i got my 3080 that showed the 3700x was to weak for it.....on to the 5700x.......

[Andrius227]

Buy an i7-3770 for ~£30 on ebay, maybe even cheaper if you are willing to try auctions. Dirt cheap and gets you hyperthreading, which is a big deal for a quad core.

[r.linder]

30 GBP is a lot for an 11 year old quad core regardless of hyper threading, it's still going to chug in a lot of modern games because the core performance isn't there, the less you spend the better

[Andrius227]

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30 GBP is a lot for an 11 year old quad core regardless of hyper threading, it's still going to chug in a lot of modern games because the core performance isn't there, the less you spend the better

Maybe, but i like upgrading old computers. And old intel cpus, particularly i7's, are still decent even today.

Still have a couple of old computers, one with an i7-2600 and the other with i7-3770S. Both run fine.

[_I_]

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Buy an i7-3770 for ~£30 on ebay, maybe even cheaper if you are willing to try auctions. Dirt cheap and gets you hyperthreading, which is a big deal for a quad core.

ht on those was not very effective
moot upgrade imho


intel did not do much to improve 4th to 7th gen when amd was not outputting any new cpus since fx while working on ryzen

[Andrius227]

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Buy an i7-3770 for ~£30 on ebay, maybe even cheaper if you are willing to try auctions. Dirt cheap and gets you hyperthreading, which is a big deal for a quad core.

ht on those was not very effective
moot upgrade imho


intel did not do much to improve 4th to 7th gen when amd was not outputting any new cpus since fx while working on ryzen

Well i have a computer that came with an i5 and it struggled with everything and then i upgraded to an i7-3770S and it became much faster, so much faster that i still use it.

[_I_]

which i5?
the k had higher base and turbo clocks vs non k
3770k and 3770s would both turbo to 3.9, k had a base of 3.5 vs 3.1
not much difference between them
3450 would only turbo to 3.5, 3570k/3770k/s would be a nice upgrade
but from 3570k, its not

[Andrius227]

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which i5?
the k had higher base and turbo clocks vs non k
3770k and 3770s would both turbo to 3.9, k had a base of 3.5 vs 3.1
not much difference between them
3450 would only turbo to 3.5, 3570k/3770k/s would be a nice upgrade
but from 3570k, its not

Well the pc i upgraded originally had an i5-3340 and it was hardly usable because it only had 4 threads, and when i upgraded to an i7 the difference was huge. And it's not because of clock speeds (only 0.6ghz difference anyway which is not much), but because of number of threads.

[hawkeye]

As post #6 said, exact analysis depends on resolution, game etc. In general terms, a gtx 1060 or 1070 would be a reasonable match for that cpu.

Here is a table of gpu performance -
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

So you can see that all rtx 40's will be bottlenecked by that cpu.

But the big catch is that gpu->monitor connector types altered with 2xxx series. The DVI connection was phased out.. So you have to check what your monitor connectors are and select a gpu that has one of the same connector type. And you might need a new psu too. So more or less your choice is limited to a better gtx 10xx.

Personally I'd stick with what you have until you can afford a new rig. But if there is a specific problem or game that you need to address then update your original post.

As for boosting the hz rate, that requires a Z mobo type. And from personal experience it won't make a significant difference.

My old rig was an i7-2600, gtx 970 (similar performance to a 1060) then gtx 1080ti, 16gb ram, 1080p. 4 cores 8 threads. It could play all games except some multiplayer online like Batllefield 5. To play online you need a better cpu.

Regardless of the gpu a 4 core 4 thread is going to run poorly unless the game ancient.

[_I_]

3340 was 3.1-3.3ghz, going to 3.9 is a huge jump, almost 20%

https://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/497/Intel_Core_i5_i5-3340_vs_Intel_Core_i5_i5-3570K.html

[Andrius227]

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3340 was 3.1-3.3ghz, going to 3.9 is a huge jump, almost 20%

20% is nothing. That pc went from struggling to browse the internet to running games perfectly. It's not because of clock speeds but because of double threads.