Multi screen games, GFX cards and Cpu's

[miker1]

I have a R9 285 and a I5-2500k running at 4.2.

Will the CPU be slowing the frame rate available, or does the GFX card carry enough "oomph" on its own?
[stupidly gave son I7-950 machine a few years ago....]


I know this is a bit open ended, but the power in GFX cards is much more than it was, so I have no idea at what point cpu bottleknecking happens......

 

[mururoa]

That combo is massively limited by the GPU, not the CPU. Basically any desktop Intel CPU from SandyBridge up with 4 or more cores feeds any commercially available GPU as much as they can crunch and then some; this is particularly true for "multi screen" / high resolution, as in those scenarios you are always bound to be GPU-bound.

On the contrary to what you implied, GPU tech is lagging behind rather severely.

 

[miker1]

Thanks.

No real need to upgrade core system then!!

 

[Confused Stu]

I always find the best way to avoid CPU being the limiting factor in most games is to add more screens/resolution/AA! Works for me, and sounds like you're thinking the same.

 

[old gamer]

i ran a eyefinity setup with a i7 920 and never had a problem at that sort of res the gpu will be doing all the hard work