Will my Ryzen 1700 Bottleneck a RTX 2070?

lloydcars18 · 9 Feb 2019 at 18:00

Hey there so as you can see from my signature I'm currently rocking a Ryzen 7 1700 and won't be upgrading the CPU until probably the 3000/4000 Series are released next year although I'm currently saving up around 600 pounds to Purchase a new GPU in around 6 months time it will be either a RTX 2070 or Navi if it's released by then.

I Game @2560x1080 at 144hz I currently average around 80fps at Medium settings in the likes of Destiny 2 and Anthem and I'm wanting more performance.

Due to my Ryzen 7 1700 being stock clocked with the stock cooler I could probably push it up to about 3.6ghz safely will that eliminate a Bottleneck and how much of 1 will there be with say a 2070 10fps?

Any help is greatly appreciated

DarkHorizon472 · 9 Feb 2019 at 21:05

It depends on the game but many while multicore aware also benefit from a higher clock speed. I found mine hit 3.7Ghz on the stock cooler with 1.2v on the CPU. Temps were fine but bought a better cooler and they are now lower by over 10C.

I would being careful of power and temps try overclocking your CPU to see if it helps as this is free. Also monitor GPU & CPU usage to see which is causing a bottleneck.

lloydcars18 · 10 Feb 2019 at 14:30

My Gpu always sits at around 100% while gaming and my cousin at 50% as I won't know until I've bought my RTX 2070 was wondering if anyone with a similar setup could give me some advice?

Vexr · 10 Feb 2019 at 16:16

In six months' time I'd hope the 2080 would be under £600, or that you could get a 2070 + a Zen2 Ryzen (like the one shown at CES) if the 1700 isn't delivering when it comes to chasing 144 fps. Either way, 6 months is quite a long way off so plenty of time to figure it out. Undoubtedly you'd benefit from a GPU upgrade for ramping graphics settings up. With everything at Ultra there'll be plenty of games that will still be GPU bottlenecked on a Ryzen 1700 even at 1080p.

The best way to test in the meantime would be to set games to extremely low settings and the lowest possible resolution, then benchmark and hopefully get an idea of the CPUs maximum frame rates without a GPU bottleneck.