FX 6300 + 980ti = i7 6700 + rx 480

What's interesting about this? The 980TI is heavily CPU limited with the FX6300
 
Instead of actually changing the whole rig now i can spend a bit more and buy a second hand 980ti and it compensate for some time...
If the 980ti can up the fx 6300 frames...An RX480 can't do this even if theoretically have the power to plus same FPS...
 
I'd say it's a waste of money to buy a 980TI running such a weak processor.
 
Actually the 980 Ti does better with a FX 6300 than the 480 does compared to the Intel. I am severely disappointed in the older Vishera cpu's holding the video cards back. I didn't realize it was actually that much until seeing it side by side. And to make matters worse the FX 6300 was overclocked to 4.6GHz. No way my older AMD motherboard can do that. DX12 cant overcome that much of a bottleneck. I might have to switch back to my Ivy Bridge system. :(
 
That's a great upgrade from a 7870. You'll love it for sure. 1080P like a breeze.
 
Nunz said:
I'd say it's a waste of money to buy a 980TI running such a weak processor.
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Well, you can always upgrade the CPU later. So, while it will be held back for now, once the CPU is upgraded it will unlock the extra performance.
 
Nagorak said:
Well, you can always upgrade the CPU later. So, while it will be held back for now, once the CPU is upgraded it will unlock the extra performance.
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I have an insider Windows 10 Pro license also...Once i change the cpu+mobo i may have to think about it too.
 
There is something here that many are missing...
We pair a 4 year old architecture with an almost last gen vga (980ti)...
I am wondering why AMD hasn't discontinue the production of the FX line instead of getting so much bashing...Clear out the retail channel and mainboards and discontinue.Relocate the resources to Zen...
On the other hand maybe removing yourself completly from CPU consumer market may have been a even worse case scenario ?

There is a review where even a 2500k is bottlenecking a gtx 1070


https://www.computerbase.de/2016-07...gramm-anno-2205-1920-1080-intel-core-i5-2500k

There is an arrow pointing down in the first graph where 2500k is pitted against 6700k and you will see that Star wars battlefront and Xcom 2 on 1070 are very bottlenecked by 2500k ...
So as older as cpu architecture is the more bottlenecks you will see with newer cards...With 2500k you see less bottlenecks but they will be more and more...Seems for 2500k the max card without bottleneck is gtx 980 ... Upp from that you get axed.. :)
The "unlucky" FX series was crippled from the beggining in some design choices so after so many years it looks worse in the eyes of many...
 
Those tests don't make much sense to me. Are the 6700K and the 2500K both running at 4.5Ghz? I don't see a clockspeed listed for the 2500K, only the 6700K -- That means either both are running at 4.5Ghz or the 6700K is overclocked and the 2500K is running stock, which is a huge disadvantage for the older chip.

Also, in the only GPU limited game in the test, Rise of the Tomb Raider, both chips performed equally. Anno 2205, SW:Battlefront, and XCOM2 are all CPU dependent games (SW:Battlefront is CPU limited because of the high framerate).

In most cases the 2500K @ 4.5Ghz is not going to limit you if you're running 1440P with a GTX980TI, as the card will struggle enough on its own to hold a steady 60+ FPS. At 1080P you may be slightly limited, but I don't suspect by much, except in the games listed above as well as Total War, etc.
 
The point is that it looks like 1070 is bottlenecked by 2500k...Even if stock or not the 2500k begun to show it's age too...
 
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The point is that it looks like 1070 is bottlenecked by 2500k...Even if stock or not the 2500k begun to show it's age too...
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In what games, though? Because in a GPU intensive game like ROTTR, it doesn't seem to be limited .. less than 2 FPS difference at 1080P
 
In CPU intensive games ... I know that that rising the resolution may lower this dependacy but on the other hand is that 2500k + 1070 is still showing lower frames than 6700k + 1070 ... It looks like 2500k hit it's limit ...
 
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