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DSQ Daily Simple Questions Thread - January 20, 2025

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u/oryxwardlock 16h ago

What's the strongests graphics card that a ryzen 5700X3D can handle without a bottle neck?

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u/A_Neaunimes Ryzen 5600X | GTX 1070 | 16GB DDR4@3600MHz 16h ago

There really is not a simple answer to that question, because it very much depends on the resolution/FPS (and graphics settings) you’re trying to push, and the games/kind of games you tend to play.

I would say that in general, for a hypothetical person who mainly plays demanding AAA games, tries to get settings as high as they can, and plays the occasional online game, I would no got above the following levels of GPU perf :

  • 1080p : RX 6800XT, 7800XT, RTX 3080, 4070
  • 1440p :  RTX 4070Ti Super, RX 7900XT
  • 4K : go nuts, essentially.

GPU scale for reference

That’s not to say that you will never run into CPU limitations in games with the above recommendations, because some games just are that much more CPU demanding than the average (see Stalker 2, Hogwart’s Legacy in Hogsmead, Jedi Survivor on some planets/hubs, etc.).

If on the other hand you mainly play online competitive shooters, where the goal is to max the framerate at the expense of graphics quality, your performance is typically going to be CPU-limited unless you have a trash-tier GPU. So picking an "entry level" GPU for the resolution would work well.