How bad is bottlenecking these days? Substantially, that all depends on how severe you are at pairing ironware. Whatever seasoned system builder will tell off you IT's important to build a balanced system, especially if you want the best bang for your buck. With this piece we'll be taking a look at the state of bottlenecking today, be that CPU or GPU bottlenecking, and to do that we'll be testing a diverse range of games: some quondam, approximately bran-new, some CPU bound and about GPU bound.

For the benchmarks we've grabbed a couple of contrastive CPUs and tested them using the GeForce GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 at 1080p. This should devote you a pretty good approximation of what good-hearted of CPU and GPU conjugation makes sense for your budget and the games you plan on playing.

It will also show us just how much lower-end CPUs such Eastern Samoa the G4560 and Ryzen 3 1200 are limiting the performance of high-terminate GPUs such as the GTX 1070 and 1080, should you be screwball enough to pair a $100 CPU with a $400+ GPU.

Towards the end of the benchmarks I'll also check out around overclocking results...

Test System Specs

In Field of battle 1, using something like the GTX 1060 makes no difference in performance between the various CPUs. The G4560 matches the Core i7-7700K with a minimum of 71 fps and an average of 80 fps. Granted you might see a larger variance when in the heat of a 64-player combat only sadly that's not possible to accurately benchmark. Anyway, I personally have establish the G4560 and GTX 1060 combo accepted for multiplayer action and you certainly can't complain for the monetary value.

Upgrading to the GTX 1070 and we start to pick up a real separation between the various CPUs tested. The 7700K is now upward to 28% faster than the G4560, though the Ryzen and Core i5-7400 CPUs still look quite an good.

Once we move to the GeForce GTX 1080 things start to convert quite a mess as the 7700K offers up to around 50% many functioning than the G4560 and IT's even 20% faster than the Center i5-7400. So Eastern Samoa expected, with high-end GPUs you really need a ruling CPU to take full advantage.

Restless connected, we have the F1 2016 results. I'm victimization the older 2016 version as F1 2017 came out sportsmanlike subsequently I gathered most of these results when testing the Ryzen 3 CPUs. Anyway, some newsworthy results nonetheless. Even though we see the same 71 fps average frame rate with most of the CPUs tested when using the GTX 1060, thither is a small difference in the 1% low results.

Things change massively one time we step functioning to the GTX 1070, here the G4560 starts to really decline behind, especially when looking at the 1% low result. Here it was 33% slower with just 55 fps compared to the 7700K's 83 Federal Protective Service. That said, the Ryzen and Core i5 processors do persevere there quite well with the 1070.

However, once we step equal to the GTX 1080, the 7700K is fully unleashed and now IT can be seen pulling miles ahead of the Core i5-7400 and Ryzen 5 1400. The 7700K was almost 80% faster than the G4560 as well in what was a true display of dominance.

With Total War Warhammer we return to extremely CPU demanding titles and as such eve the GTX 1060 shows the G4560's shortcomings as a depress clocked double-core CPU. Once we move to the GTX 1070 we find that the Ryzen 3 and 5 CPUs aren't really able to increase performance ended what was seen with the GTX 1070. We've discovered this is due to the way Nvidia's drivers handle the DirectX 12 API.

Anyway that's not the focus of this video. Even if we appear at the Core i5 and Core i7 processors, with the GTX 1070 there is in real time quite an a bit of separation. This is accentuated with the GTX 1080 and now the 7700K is well-nig 30% faster than the Gist i5-7400 and 71% faster than the G4560.