Will a AMD FX-8350 bottleneck a RX 480?

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Hey whats up guys. I'm looking forward to buying the new RX 480 this Thursday. Currently my rig I have a FX-6300, GTX 660, 8GB RAM, and a 650w Antec PSU. This RX 480 will obviously have way more performance than my GTX 660 will have. I'm assuming if I don't upgrade my CPU I will have a bad bottleneck. Will a AMD FX-8350 be good enough for a RX 480? Also would a FX-6300 bottleneck a RX 470??
 
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That sounds bad... I play at 1080p and I play games like Rust, BF1, BF4, CS:GO, GTA 5, and The Forest. Will I be badly bottlenecked?? I don't what to do... I only have 380$

 
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You'll be fine. No bottleneck. Not a chance on games. Even a 6300 would be fine. I have a 6300 paired with a R9 390 on my newest build and it runs smooth on everything. You're also very future proof as the new APIs will take advantage of your AMD CPU cores and AMD GPU GNC features. Do you have an SSD?
 
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even tho i know your question is about bottleneck. but you should be more worry about how well will game play with a RX480 and FX8350. or in your case a fx6300 with a RX480.
it depending on what game. there are some game that uses the old way of coding so it doesn't take full advantage of multi threading. in that case an AMD cpu will not work as good as an intel cpu no matter what video card you put in. but if you are talking about games that you can play 300fps. it don't matter what cpu you use.
in your case. I would recommend putting in the RX480 into your FX6300 (over clock it) and see how things run first. than if you are not happy with what you see. just google some youtube video of FX8350 with RX480 and game that you play. a video should show up giving you what kinda FPS you should expect.
for the new DX12 games. it shouldn't matter as much anymore what cpu you uses. caz every is done more to the GPU side and the CPU multi thread is much better used. (which is good for AMD fx8350 who have more thread)

so to answer your question. It depend what game you play. for some game it would. but for the newer game that uses DX12 it shouldn't ( i know it sound funny how future games will work better with old AMD cpu)
 
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I just watched a video of an FX6300 vs an I7 with an RX480 and 980Ti.

The I7 was significantly better producing way more FPS. I was very surprised. Looks like the I7 is way better and the way to go. Boy was I wrong.

What fooled me were videos and articles where an FX6300 would get 60FPS while an I7 gets 90fps. The conclusions were that the FX6300 produces good frame rates over 60 which is good enough. It never stated the I7 was 50-100% better, just that the FX6300 worked good enough with an RX480 or other video card.

So here's the question. Do you get a new video card now, then wait for the AMD Zen before buying a new CPU. Or do you gt Skylake now and wait for the new AMD video cards. T

Personally I'd get the video card as the FX6300 will only bottleneck in some games, not all of them. Some games the I7 will have a 100fps advantage, others only 10. But the video card will double your output in all games across the board. I think overall the video card will give you better performance, but there is no denying a new CPU will help tremendously as well. On the other hand if you do lots of SPU intensive tasks like encoding, editing, etc... then maybe a new CPU would suit you well.
 
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For some of those games you'll be fine but you may see a diminished return in a game like GTA V due to it's open world nature. And 8350 will definitely help alleviate the bottleneck, but won't get rid of it. Your choices then are to get the 8350 for a better experience, keep the 6300 for cost efficiency, or migrate to Intel as they tend to do well in open world titles.
 
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Don't bother upgrading from a 6300 to an 8350.
Get a decent cooler on your 6300 & overclock it yo 4.3ghz & it'll outperform an 8350 in just about any gaming scenario.

Rust & the forest are the games you'll see CPU limitations in , the rest you'll be sitting 60fps or more 99% of the time.
 
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If your not into overclocking get the 8350, if you are look at your budget and determine if you still want it, as you can overclock the 8350 to be better than the 6300 any day.
 
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