will AMD Phenom II X2 555 bottleneck with radeon r9 270x ?

Troa · Jun 29, 2015

i have AMD Phenom II X2 555 as my cpu. and i will upgrade my video card with radeon r9 270x. it will bottleneck my gpu ?

Tifredall · Jun 29, 2015

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Cryio · Jun 30, 2015

Yes, absolutely, a dual core Phenom II CPU will bottleneck the 270X. Quite heavily even.

Rolando_d · Jun 30, 2015

Yes it will. I had the Phenom II and when I upgraded, I saw no performance gain due to the throttling from the CPU.