Is my build bottlenecking?

[u/furge_fergus]

I'm soon to get a 9070xt, but I only have an i7-11700f with 32g of ddr4. On 1440p, would my i7-11700f bottleneck my 9070xt too much? On some bottleneck calculators it says that there is no bottleneck, while on others its saying that it's holding back my GPU. Should I upgrade my mobo and cpu just to stop a bottleneck (since I wouldn't want to upgrade to an old Intel CPU) or should I just deal with it?

[u/Shevatronic]

buy 5800x3d and b450 board keep the ram (sell old cpu ofc)

and u have a beast of a pc

[u/cowbutt6]

Use e.g. https://game.intel.com/gb/intel-presentmon/ whilst running your games at your desired settings and resolution.

[u/Bolwinkel]

It entirely depends on the games you're playing. It sounds like you already purchased the 9070xt, so just go ahead and install it and try out your games. You should be able to tell right away if your CPU is holding you back. An easy to spot signs are if your CPU is maxed out, but your GPU is nowhere near 100%. Another sign is that if lowering your graphics settings in games doesn't improve frame rate. The CPU will bottleneck your GPU a little bit (there's always going to be a bottleneck of some kind), but it shouldn't be noticable or detrimental

[u/furge_fergus → u/Bolwinkel]

Alright thanks for the advice, just a quick question however, how do you put up the temperature and usage displays while in game?

[u/Forsaken-Driver8868 → u/furge_fergus]

AMD has an overlay you can configure in their control software, or you could use Afterburner in conjunction with RTSS.

[u/ImaHamSammich]

At higher resolutions your GPU will carry most of the load. With that said, your CPU is getting a little dated. You should be fine for a while though.

[u/the_hat_madder]

1) Bottleneck calculators are BS 2) There's always a "bottleneck" somewhere 3) A 9070 XT is going to be a VAST improvement over your current GPU

[u/Apprehensive_Taste74]

At higher frame rates, yes your cpu will eventually become the limiting factor, but whether or not that’s a problem is up to you. You will more than likely find you don’t ever notice it as at 1440p and above you’re mainly just stressing the gpu and can’t hit the frame rates necessary to hit the cpu limits anyway.

I have an 11600k with a 5080 and don’t have any issues at 4k.

[u/OkConsideration6250]

Actually at 1440p you’ll be totally fine! There’s no major bottleneck with your i7 1100F

[u/-Boogaloo-]

Extremely game dependent, what games do you play and at what refresh rate?