how much of a bottleneck will the i7-870 be for the gtx 970 or gtx 980?

[saif magdob]

My PC Specs:

Windows 7 Professional
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870
Ram: 10GB
System type: 64-bit
Video card: XFX GT 520 2GB
Motherboard: Asrock P55 Pro

how much of a bottleneck will the i7-870 be for the gtx 970 or gtx 980?

 

[Antonis117]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2729891/bottlenecking-guide-chart-2015.html
I think the i7 870 is somewhere in tier 3 but as you can see it is recommended a 960 or a r9 380.

 

[Antonis117]

Perhaps and the 970. I am not 100% sure about a 980.

 

[hackingman]

the i7 870 it's terribly unstable in new games, causing lots of stutter and frame drops. developers do not optimize games for older cpus so it's more and optimization issue than a real power problem. i would be against pairing it with the 970.

 

[pelzor192]

Have a i7 950 (which is very similar in performance to the i7 870) in one of my pc's. It is overclocked to 4 GHz running a Sapphire R9 270x toxic oc'd it has no issues. Tested a friends R9 390, which is similar to the 970, and the performance boost was huge. Still ran games at over 80fps. If the CPU was bottle necking the GPU is was NOT by a large amount.
My advice would be to get the best GPU you can afford, if the game runs well then its a win if it doesn't overclock your cpu to see if that makes a difference if not then look at upgrading your CPU/mobo/ram all that stuff. Either way in the end you will have a great GPU.

 

[hackingman]

Have a i7 950 (which is very similar in performance to the i7 870) in one of my pc's. It is overclocked to 4 GHz running a Sapphire R9 270x toxic oc'd it has no issues. Tested a friends R9 390, which is similar to the 970, and the performance boost was huge. Still ran games at over 80fps. If the CPU was bottle necking the GPU is was NOT by a large amount.
My advice would be to get the best GPU you can afford, if the game runs well then its a win if it doesn't overclock your cpu to see if that makes a difference if not then look at upgrading your CPU/mobo/ram all that stuff. Either way in the end you will have a great GPU.

i7 950 and 870 are not even close in terms of performance , the i5 750 has always been faster than the i7 870 so we are talking about a cpu that was a faliure at being a gaming cpu. framedrops would kill the fun. but still you can get the 970 and upgrade later to a better cpu.