GTX 1080TI on 5930K is CPU a bottleneck?

[Badpritt1970]

Hi there i just upgraded my pc with a GTX 1080 TI and a widescreen 3440 x 1440 monitor, now my question is is my 4 year old (2014) 5930k pc (gigabyte x-99 gaming 7 wifi mobo, 16 gb ddr4 2133, 2tb ssd) bottlenecking my 1080ti or should i upgrade to a 8700k? its a gaming pc and i always try to play games at maximum settings....

 

[thesmokingman]

Why do you think its bottlenecking? Have you run tests to confirm this? Cpu becomes less important the larger the resolution you go.

 

[LTC8K6]

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1316?vs=2025

 

[scannall]

No, your CPU is fine. Save your money. Especially at that resolution.

 

[Badpritt1970]

I cannot believe this benchmark looks like my 4yo cpu is better than an also 6 core high mhz latest cpu???

 

[Badpritt1970]

Its just a 4yo cpu is ancient in the world of computing and combining it with 1yo (high end)gpu seems a bit unsymmetric in relative performance imho...

 

[LTC8K6]

Its just a 4yo cpu is ancient in the world of computing and combining it with 1yo (high end)gpu seems a bit unsymmetric in relative performance imho...

It's not, they match up pretty good. Haswell-E is still a good CPU.
With 8700K you'd be giving up a lot of PCI-E lanes and you'd lose quad channel ram, for little gain.

 

[LTC8K6]

You can overclock that chip if you haven't already. You can probably run faster ram as well.

 

[ZGR]

Faster RAM and overclock will really help. 2133 MHz DDR4 is incredibly slow and hurts performance significantly.

It also really depends what game you are playing.

What games? I also suggest Rivatuner to monitor GPU and CPU core 0 usage.