I5 3470 Bottleneck 980TI?!?!

Wetsen · Oct 14, 2015

Okay, so I'm getting a GTX 980Ti, and will have 16Gb ram, however I only have an I5-3470, I intend to run games like witcher-3 and Fallout 4 in ultra 1440p, Will this be sufficient? What will the CPU Bottleneck?

glamdringfh · Oct 14, 2015

Your CPU will definitely bottleneck that graphics card. To run the 980ti card without problems you'll need to look at the i5 4690K / i5 4770K / [Other Unlocked i5 Haswell Lineup].

You'll still be able to play the games you mentioned above, though perhaps not on Ultra.

modernwar99 · Oct 14, 2015

The i5 3470 is equal to the i5 4460 in terms of performance. At 1080p there might be a bottleneck in CPU heavy games like GTA 5 but at 1440p I think you'll be fine. Don't think it would be drastic enough to warrant a CPU upgrade.

LookItsRain · Oct 14, 2015

You will be will above 60 fps at 1440p in every game that is out today, the i5 is a bottleneck, but your display is an even bigger one.

jaguarskx · Oct 14, 2015

No, not really....

Granted the below benchmarks are not for the GTX 980 Ti, but a mix of the less powerful GTX 980 and the more powerful GTX Titan X.

http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/979-battlefield-hardline-benchmarks/page5.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/970-homeworld-remastered-benchmarks/page4.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/1000-project-cars-benchmarks/page5.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/917-far-cry-4-benchmarks/page5.html