What video card bottlenecks the Celeron J3455?

[zijin_cheng]

I have a weird question, I would like to know what is the most powerful video card I could pair with the Celeron J3455 before the J3455 becomes a bottleneck?

Would it be a GT710?

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Yes it is a weird question...... but I think you are in the ball park for which card would probably be the upper limit for the CPU. Even though there might be a small amount of bottleneck this refurb 730 would still be good bang for the buck.

There is a wealth of info on budget GPU's over in the deals section: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/the-entry-level-video-card-hot-deals-thread.2403091/

 

[LTC8K6]

Well, it's a 4 core Apollo Lake chip, so it's not as bad as it might seem. It already has HD500 built in if you just need low-end graphics.

 

[zijin_cheng]

Well, it's a 4 core Apollo Lake chip, so it's not as bad as it might seem. It already has HD500 built in if you just need low-end graphics.

What's your opinion on the highest power graphics card that would be the upper limit of this CPU in gaming?

 

[bystander36]

What's your opinion on the highest power graphics card that would be the upper limit of this CPU in gaming?

The resolution and games you play would help determine that.

 

[LTC8K6]

What's your opinion on the highest power graphics card that would be the upper limit of this CPU in gaming?

GT1030 is probably the upper limit.

 

[VirtualLarry]

GT1030 is probably the upper limit.

Considering that those Atom SoCs have a limited number of PCI-E lanes, I would use that as your yardstick. The GT1030 has a PCI-E 3.0 x4 interface, I believe. (Or is it x8?) I think that's probably a good limit. I might also consider a GT 710, or a GT 730 1GB GDDR5 card, if you want a little gaming on the side.

 

[mikeymikec]

I'm surprised that you can even pair up a standard graphics card with a baby celeron. I definitely would locate some benchmarks of the games you're interested in first to make sure that the CPU isn't maybe the bigger problem (ie. even when gaming on integrated graphics).

That's just aside from the power requirements: A "desktop" built by an OEM with a baby celeron is likely to have minimal power requirements, so why on earth would they give it a PSU sufficient to handle much of a graphics card under sustained load.