Does it matter what my clock speed is as long as I have a quad core?

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I don't want to bottleneck a gtx 950, But I am thinking of getting a quad core cpu, clocked at 2.6 ghz. Would I bottleneck?
 
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you would think so mate the way current cpu's are hyped.

^^ thats not the point mate he's not asking what cpu is best performing
he wants to know if his cpu is strong enough to handle the 950 without bottlenecking it. :D

AMD Athlon II X4 641 performs at a similar level to the core 2 quad 6600 a 2.4ghz quad
which in istelf out performs an...
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Some games are heavily dependent on single core performance, in which case clock speed matters. 2.6 GHz does seem a little low, but it also depends on what architecture the CPU is based on. What exact CPU are you looking at? I can't think of any modern quad cores that are clocked at that speed.
 
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what particular cpu? an intel i5 quad core cpu running at 2.6ghz would be a lot faster than an AMD quad core cpu at 2.6ghz for example. You can even have a 2 core intel cpu best an 8 core AMD cpu in many games. There are lots of other factors beyond clock speed and cores that contribute to a cpu's performance. If you have a gtx950 something like a haswell or skylake intel i3 would be a good match. At this stage i could not recommend an AMD cpu for gaming, they are just too many generations behind intel now.
 
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you would think so mate the way current cpu's are hyped.

^^ thats not the point mate he's not asking what cpu is best performing
he wants to know if his cpu is strong enough to handle the 950 without bottlenecking it. :D

AMD Athlon II X4 641 performs at a similar level to the core 2 quad 6600 a 2.4ghz quad
which in istelf out performs an athon64 x2 6000 by about 10% per core (hold on you'll see where im going with this ;) )

the 950 for its part perfoms at a similar level to the hd 5870, my old card.

i recently gave it to a mate and he paired it with an athlon64 x2 6000 and guess what it worked fine on pretty much everything thats been thrown at it. (doesnt like battlefield but then again no x2 x2 core really does :heink: )

now if that old athlon x2 can handle an hd5870 with its poor in comparison cpu per clock performance, the amd athlon x4 which is about 15% stronger per clock per core, should easily handle the requirements of the 5870, so by default should be able to run gtx 950.

so yeah OP to my mind, there's no reason to think your cpu wont be able to handle it...
 
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Umm, I don't think so. It's hard to find benchmarks that have both cards, due to how old the 5870, but if you look at their 3DMark GPU scores, the 950 roughly double the 5870. Another way to compare is to look at the R7 370 (AMD's closest GTX 950 equivalent). The 370 is a tweaked R9 270X, which is a tweaked HD 7870. The 7870 itself is noticeably more powerful than the 5870, and each subsequent revision of it should be a little more powerful still, culminating in the R7 370. And the GTX 950 is still a little more powerful than that (beat the 370 across the board in Tomshardware's review of the 950).
 
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I guess that just goes to show how inaccurate synthetics can be. If you look at the scores that the synthetics score in GPUBoss are based off (Passmark and 3DMark06), the 5870 outperforms the 950 by over 50% in 3DMark06, yet the 950 double the performance of the 5870 is Passmark. And if you look at these Futuremark scores, the 950 double the performance of the HD 5870:
http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+950/review
http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/ATI+Radeon+HD+5870/review

Seeing how wildly the synthetics vary, I don't know how you can conclude anything from them.
 
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