Would my FX-8350 bottleneck a GTX 1060 6gb

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jeffredo

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Yes, it will to a certain extent and how much depends on how CPU intensive the game is. I have an FX-8320E @ 4.4 Ghz in one of my PCs and it holds back a GTX 970 (which is about the same as an RX 470 or a little slower than a GTX 1060 3GB). It still worked fine, but the FPS drops in CPU bound parts of games was noticeable. How do I know? I swapped the card between that PC and one with an i7-4790k and played the same games. Basically, if you don't have a point of comparison like that you won't know if its bottlenecked by your CPU or not.
 
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LC1331

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I ended up getting the EVGA 1060 sc single fan or whatever. Huge affect on any games that I played that were sub 60. I booted up gta V and got 120 fps in Michael's house using the settings that I had on with my gtx 750ti. I cranked all of the settings except grass to max and it averaged at around 65 fps, but still dipped to 50's at some points in the more densely populated areas. Cities skylines also got 60fps with settings maxed. I'm very happy with the results. Thanks for answering, people who did.
 
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clutchc

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Here is an example from my FX-8350@4.7GHz/GTX 980 playing Doom (Vulcan) @ Ultra 1080p/60Hz. I just ran this test yesterday.

CPU Thread usage: (4 x cores @ 100%, 4 x cores @ 99.3%)
GPU Utilization: 98%
(Managed 100 FPS to 150 FPS Frame rate)

The GTX 980 has roughly the same performance as the GTX 1060.
 
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