Will RTX 2070 work with my i5 6600 processor?

[dirtyferret]

Not to mention the placebo effect.

Years ago I OC my phenom II x4 955 to 3.8 or 3.9ghz. The difference between stock and OC was night and day. OS was snappier and games ran faster to the naked eye...few weeks later I went into the BIOS and realized I forgot to save my OC settings upon exiting...

 

[lexluthermiester]

No need for any further responses, just try to learn a thing or two.

Please take your own advice.

I'm not the only one saying it, either.

And you're not the only one failing(as usual) to comprehend context which is, as always, important.

 

[Papahyooie]

We can argue about what makes a bottleneck, or what makes a bottleneck significant all day long.

Bottom line is, with a i5 6600 and a GTX 2070, you will not get any faster framerates than if you had an i5 6600 and a GTX 1070. Maybe even a GTX 1060, depending on the game. So you have completely wasted your money, as the 2070 sits idle waiting on the i5 to send it data. The bottleneck is there. If you keep the i5 6600, you might as well not even buy the 2070, because a slower graphics card will suffice.

THAT is the operative thing that makes a bottleneck worth considering.

 

[trog100]

We can argue about what makes a bottleneck, or what makes a bottleneck significant all day long.

Bottom line is, with a i5 6600 and a GTX 2070, you will not get any faster framerates than if you had an i5 6600 and a GTX 1070. Maybe even a GTX 1060, depending on the game. So you have completely wasted your money, as the 2070 sits idle waiting on the i5 to send it data. The bottleneck is there. If you keep the i5 6600, you might as well not even buy the 2070, because a slower graphics card will suffice.

THAT is the operative thing that makes a bottleneck worth considering.

this entirely depends on the resolution being used.. the higher the frames rates the harder to cpu has to work to keep up.. at higher resolutions and lower frames rates a mid range cpu will do fine..

trog

 

[EarthDog]

this entirely depends on the resolution being used.. the higher the frames rates the harder to cpu has to work to keep up.. at higher resolutions and lower frames rates a mid range cpu will do fine..

trog

This is true for the most part. However, if a game isn't getting the cores needed, it will still suffer regardless of resolution + GPU and still be a bottleneck/cause of poor performance/experience. You can take any CPU and any GPU and see this happen.






People seem to be confused......... the GPU isn't using all the cores/threads, it is the GAME doing so. If a game only needs 2-3 threads, then it isn't holding the game back (if that makes sense). That doesn't mean it still cannot hold the fps back from the GPU. though. For example, ancient Xeons and Sandybridge for Intel and all AMD CPUs not named Ryzen 2/3 will hold titles back at 1080p and lower (where most users game according to steam). There is a difference there.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Bottom line is, with a i5 6600 and a GTX 2070, you will not get any faster framerates than if you had an i5 6600 and a GTX 1070.

That is most definitely incorrect. It highly depends on the game being played and the settings being used. However, I have an older X5680 and went from a 1080 to 2080 and the difference was significant, dramatically in some cases. 2070 will most definitely improve performance on a i5-6600, as the OP will discover when they receive theirs and run their games.

However, the OP has not stated what they are upgrading from. If they're upgrading from a 1080 the impact will be lesser, though it will still be noticeable. If they're upgrading from something less than 1070 then the difference will be very dramatic.

However, if a game isn't getting the cores needed, it will still suffer regardless of resolution and still be a bottleneck.

4 cores that can all-core turbo to 3.7ghz is just not going to suffer that greatly. The OP will be fine.

 

[EarthDog]

4 cores that can all-core turbo to 3.7ghz is just not going to suffer that greatly. The OP will be fine.

No shit. I said that as my first post in this thread. I am simply clarifying information of this obtuse thread.


EDIT: I wonder how long staff is going to leave this thread open? OP hasn't been to the site since 11/11 and people are still going back and forth.........only at TPU!!!!!!!

 

[bug]

We can argue about what makes a bottleneck, or what makes a bottleneck significant all day long.

Bottom line is, with a i5 6600 and a GTX 2070, you will not get any faster framerates than if you had an i5 6600 and a GTX 1070. Maybe even a GTX 1060, depending on the game. So you have completely wasted your money, as the 2070 sits idle waiting on the i5 to send it data. The bottleneck is there. If you keep the i5 6600, you might as well not even buy the 2070, because a slower graphics card will suffice.

THAT is the operative thing that makes a bottleneck worth considering.

Even if that was true, you can still enable RTX

 

[Bill_Bright]

Bottom line is...

No! The bottom line is, there are WAY TOO MANY variables (in terms of hardware, software, the user's tasks, the user's preferences, the user's perceptions) for any one person to claim they know what the bottom line is.

 

[lexluthermiester]

No! The bottom line is, there are WAY TOO MANY variables (in terms of hardware, software, the user's tasks, the user's preferences, the user's perceptions) for any one person to claim they know what the bottom line is.

Excellent point really. We can generalize about probabilities, would you not agree?

 

[Bill_Bright]

We can generalize about probabilities, would you not agree?

As long as those generalizations are expressed as personal opinions and not fact. Your bottom line may be, and likely is totally different from mine - and that is likely true for everyone else.

There is no "one size fits all".