My first PC build, the one I'm currently using, has an A8-7650k, and I recently bought within the past couple months a 1050 ti as it's GPU. I didn't think my A8 would be as much of a bottleneck or a hindrance to the 1050 ti, but my performance doesn't match the benchmarks I've seen at all, even when the benchmarker uses something like Pentium G4400 as the Processor.
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Will my A8 Bottleneck my 1050 ti?
- Thread starter FelxProxy
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Pentium G4560 is the best value for the money it's better than g4400. Yes your cpu will bottleneck harder than the new pentium. It will be totaly playable but it will be bottlenecking in cpu intensive titles. 
jakubek160
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Pentium G4560 is the best value for the money it's better than g4400. Yes your cpu will bottleneck harder than the new pentium. It will be totaly playable but it will be bottlenecking in cpu intensive titles.
dontlistentome
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It would help if you specify which benchmarks you're talking about. Just saying "but my performance doesn't match the benchmarks I've seen at all" doesn't give anyone much to go on.
In general, AMD APUs, which is what you have, are not gaming CPUs. That's not what they were designed for, so that's not what they're good at. They were intended as an 'all in one' solution for people who didn't need to add a gaming videocard to their system. So you buy an APU and have integrated graphics that are good enough for all non gaming uses, and you save money.
This is why a gaming card paired with an APU won't perform as well as the same card paired with an equivalent regular CPU.
In general, AMD APUs, which is what you have, are not gaming CPUs. That's not what they were designed for, so that's not what they're good at. They were intended as an 'all in one' solution for people who didn't need to add a gaming videocard to their system. So you buy an APU and have integrated graphics that are good enough for all non gaming uses, and you save money.
This is why a gaming card paired with an APU won't perform as well as the same card paired with an equivalent regular CPU.
I will agree I wasn't being extremely clear with what I was referring to as far as benchmarks, but I was merely talking about the fact that 1050 ti benchmarks I saw were mostly better than the performance I had on my computer, by almost 15-30 mrore frames; granted the people doing the benchmarks were using something better like a Pentium G4560, or or an i3 6100/7100.
I was merely confused regarding the fact that I didn't think something like an A8 would bottleneck my GPU so severely, but losing almost 30 frames seemed like a bizarre result and made me feel like maybe something else was wrong, but now I know. Burning a hole in my wallet and geting a new mobo, pentium, and ram is the best course of action right now, I suppose.
jakubek160
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Yeah, invest not a big amount of money and get a b250 motherboard NOT H110 because you would need to update bios. You may have problems with that. The cost of pentium , motherboard and gtx 1050 ti will be arround 250 gbp. Highly recommend it.
dontlistentome
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Yeah, people sometimes underestimate the difference a CPU can make, and overestimate how much a videocard can help.
For examples, look at Battlefield 1 and Ghost Recon Wildlands benchmarks, in particular benchmarks which include a wide range of CPUs. Even with 1080 as a videocard, framerate can take a major dive with slower CPUs.
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