Will my CPU bottleneck a HD 7970 or a GTX 680?

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Swapnil Iqbal

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I have an Intel Core i3 2120 Dual core processor running at 3.3 ghz. I was wondering if this processor would bottleneck the HD 7970, or a GTX 680. I also have only 4GB of RAM. How about a r9 280x Vapor X? Will this card be bottlenecked too?
 
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Well all 3 of those cards are around the same performance. The 7970 IS a 280x. AMD just re branded the 7970 to the 280x. Actually the GTX680 was also re branded as the GTX770 as well. The only bottleneck will be in CPU intensive games. You may want to grab an i5 2500/k to get the full potential out of the card, but it shouldn't be too bad of a bottle neck in most cases either way.
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Well all 3 of those cards are around the same performance. The 7970 IS a 280x. AMD just re branded the 7970 to the 280x. Actually the GTX680 was also re branded as the GTX770 as well. The only bottleneck will be in CPU intensive games. You may want to grab an i5 2500/k to get the full potential out of the card, but it shouldn't be too bad of a bottle neck in most cases either way.
 
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