a10 6800k and amd r9 280x

azbo bell

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I bought my r9 280x today (saphire dual x 3gb edition) my cpu is an ocd a10 6800k (4.7 ghz) ive heard alot of these two bottlenecking when used together but only from peoples opinion and not real world benchmarks or graphs. Im not a ultra preset or very high settings gamer I used to play at high on bf4 with my 660ti because id take an extra 5-10 fps over a better looking tree so I dont know of this would effect your guys judgement, I don't have the money for kaveri or to change mobo to an am3+ I only want the opinion on this combo as its all I have and have no kntention of further upgrades untill better apus become available
 
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Bottleneck is a realtive term. It will occur if the game is heavily CPU limited. You can use any card you want with the A10. But you will not be getting your money's worth out of the card when it is bottlenecked by the CPU.
But the R9-280X is a bit more than the APU can keep up with most of the time.

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Bottleneck is a realtive term. It will occur if the game is heavily CPU limited. You can use any card you want with the A10. But you will not be getting your money's worth out of the card when it is bottlenecked by the CPU.
But the R9-280X is a bit more than the APU can keep up with most of the time.
 
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In some games there can be well over 30fps difference between amd and Intel (intel's favor). Amd is quite a few generations behind now. It's going to boil down to how much the cpu a game will need/use. Some games you will not notice, others you will.
 

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There will always be a bottleneck to a computer. If the CPU is significantly weaker than the GPU than the FPS will match with lower ranges. Your average FPS may still be decently high but the minimums will be lower than using the same GPU with a Intel CPU, so you probably will see some stuttering effects just from the drops from 60+ to whatever the minimums you will likely be getting. Games like Tomb Raider that is largely dependent on GPU will suffer very little performance against Intel CPUs but CPU intensive games like Crysis 3/Arma III will. Additionally while you may get decent FPS on single player mode in first person shooters, online matches will be much worse. I for one just bought a R9 290, replacing my 7850, and will be paired with my OCed 860K (7850K basically). There will definitely be a bottleneck. If the CPU is a bottleneck to the video card you will notice that you won't gain that much FPS when lowering graphical settings on video games.
 

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game X needs more cpu than GPU once your CPU is @ 100% and dosnt have the power to support the gpu the card will be bottlnecked

game Y needs more GPU than CPU thats where u should be fine as the R9 280X can maxout everything on ultra without AA

also if u enable mantle i bet u will see a 25~ FPS difference in cpu heavy game EX: Glitch Field 4
 

azbo bell

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I know the i5 is a better processor but im making the best of a bad situation im looking into an fx6300 once i get my new psu and case total upgrade cost for psu mobo case and processor is around 350 pounds

Edit: but will games will still be very playable on my system?
 
^ undying - slower than a stock i5?? Nope ,I don't think so.
At 4.7ghz (if that's stable) there will be NO bottleneck whatsoever ,none,zilch,nothing.
That's a monster overclock & you should honestly be hitting high at 60fps at least in any game.
The lack of l3 cache stunts the apu chips a bit but if you're running at least 1600mhz ram at that clock speed it just doesn't matter.
Slyu9213's answer is the most sensible here - apart from mine of course;-)
You won't get any benefit from running a 750k/760k/860k over what you have now.