**The 2060 Super: A Peak Before CPU Bind**

When it comes to choosing a graphics card, there's always a balance between performance and power consumption. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super is about the peak before hitting a CPU bind with this particular set of settings and this game. With its impressive performance, it seems like the perfect addition to any gaming PC. However, when pushing it to higher resolutions like 1440p, we see that the GPU bind starts to compress the frame rate, bringing it down from 5.1 gigahertz to a mere 133 frames per second.

This is where things get interesting. We test the 2060 Super against its bigger brother, the 2080 Ti, which comes with a stock 10-600k boost clock. While the 2080 Ti seems like it should outrun the 2060 Super, we see that it's also bound by CPU performance. This means that if you're looking for a high-end graphics card without breaking the bank, the 2060 Super might be a good option.

**The 2080 Ti: A High-End Option with Limited Savings**

Moving on to the 2080 Ti, this is a high-end option that's hard to justify in many gaming scenarios. While it does lead the 2070 Super in some tests, we see that it's still bound by CPU performance. This means that you're not getting full utilization of the GPU's capabilities, and you're essentially wasting money on a card that's not fully leveraged.

If you want to save money while still getting top-notch performance, the 2060 Super is a great option. It's about halfway between the 2070 Super and the 2080 Ti in terms of performance, making it a more affordable choice without sacrificing too much. However, if you're looking for extreme performance and don't mind spending the money, the 2080 Ti might be worth considering.

**Balancing Performance and Power Consumption**

When it comes to balancing performance and power consumption, there's no one-size-fits-all solution. If you're doing competitive gaming with high graphics settings and a high frame rate focus, then the 2080 Ti is a great choice. However, for most users who like to have generally higher graphic settings even if they're not competitive enough to want 240fps, the 2060 Super makes more sense.

In many games, we see that the 2060 Super and lower options will allow you full utilization of the GPU's capabilities, while the 2080 Ti might be wasted on a CPU-bound system. This is especially true at higher resolutions like 1440p or 4k, where the difference becomes more meaningful.

**Choosing the Right CPU for Your Needs**

So, what kind of CPU should you pair with your graphics card? If you're doing something other than gaming, then you'll need a different set of benchmarks. However, if gaming is your primary focus, then we recommend pairing the 2060 Super or lower options with a CPU that can handle the demands of modern games.

In our tests, we see that the 10-600k boost clock on the 10600k is a great way to balance performance and power consumption. It's a good cost-saving measure that will get you pretty far without sacrificing too much in terms of gaming performance. However, if you want to save even more money, there are other options like the 3600 or 3300x that won't reach the same heights but will still provide great performance.

**Wrapping Up**

In conclusion, the 2060 Super is a great option for those who want high-end graphics performance without breaking the bank. While it may not be able to reach the same heights as the 2080 Ti in some tests, it's a more affordable choice that will get you pretty far. If gaming is your primary focus and you're looking to balance performance and power consumption, then we recommend pairing the 2060 Super or lower options with a CPU that can handle the demands of modern games.

If gaming is not your primary focus, then we recommend checking out our CPU reviews for more information on balancing performance and power consumption. Additionally, if you want to save even more money without sacrificing too much in terms of gaming performance, there are other options like the 3600 or 3300x that might be worth considering.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe've ascended to a higher plane of existence because our thumbnails now have physics andrew made a physics simulation for our gpu bottlenecking thumbnail which is what we're showing today the 10600k got our strong recommendation for gaming focused builds that don't need to stretch as far as a 10 900k which often ends up at about the same place as a 10 600k in most games not all applications but a lot of games you'll end up in about the same place so with that known now and with the r3 3300x previously benchmarked for gpu bottlenecks with this same approach we're now looking at when the 10600k stops making sense as a pair with different gpus so we're testing from the 2080 ti at the top end down to some of the mid-range cards like a 5600 xt for example or a 2060 ko and we also have one set of benchmarks with a 5.1 gigahertz overclock on the 10 600k and a 48x cache ratio just to see if it changes at all especially at the lower resolutions before that this video is brought to you by the be quiet purebase 500 dx the purebase 500 dx is a new push from v quiet into mesh fronted cases that are more thermally focused the 500dx maintains high build quality and attention to detail for its dust filters front panel installation and fan placement and still has additional focus on noise control the case comes with three 140mm pure wayne's two-fan stock and has rgb leds but with a physical hardware switch for easy control learn more about the be quiet purebase 500 dx at the link in the description below so the testing today it ranges from 1080p up to 4k we've got 1440 in there as well typically we do 1080 and 1440 for our cpu reviews cpu reviews are dialed in a way with the games chosen and the settings chosen that what we're looking for obviously is a cpu scale so what we want to know is top to bottom how much difference is there from one cpu to the next without chopping off the top end of performance too much now eventually with something like a 10 900k it starts to get hard to avoid that gpu limitation where the cpus are getting so good and so fast at what they're doing that you have to either find new ways to show a difference or you have to kind of settle and say well this is about the limit for what real world is this is already medium settings 1080p what more do you want so that's the challenge we ran into with the 10 the 10 900k and you can watch our reviews for more information on that and where we circumvented it and where we couldn't circumvent it and just called it real world today though the 10600k is one of the better cpus the best cpu for gaming we think even though the 10900k technically has a lead the 10600k achieves most of that lead with an overclock in realistic scenarios and even in unrealistic scenarios where you mostly cpu constrained you're still talking a high core count high thread count cpu hyper threading now high frequencies the games they're not like blender where it'll just scale infinitely with threads so the 10 6 is pretty good now again we did this with the 3300x previously but we're doing 1080 through 4k today this is using our cpu methodology games but with our gpu methodology graphics settings so you'll have to look at the chart titles to see what the graphics settings are they're different they can't be cross compared with the results from the cpu reviews because we're using different graphics settings explicitly to stress the gpu in this benchmark to see at what point it stops scaling and finally as a note 2 if you're more interested in competitive high fps games you might turn your graphics down or you play games that are natively low graphics quality like cs go or dota to begin with then what you're really looking for is a cpu benchmark not a gpu bottleneck benchmark because in most of those instances you're talking about high single thread load high frequency demand and that'll show better in the cpu reviews than in this content which this is more for someone who likes to crank the graphics settings as high as is reasonably permissible by the hardware that they have rather than trying to get 240 fps for example so that's what we're looking at let's get into the benchmarks shadow of the tomb raider at 1080p high has the 10600k maxing out at 172 fps average with the cpu and the cash ratio overclock that allows it a lead over the 10600k stock results 163 fps average of about 5.8 percent that's a measurable repeatable difference and it shows that the 10600k is limiting the 2080 ti even with the higher graphics settings at 1080p for stock results the 10600k 2080 ti ends up close to the 8086k5 gigahertz result in this game from our standard gpu bench and the hardware used for that more appropriately though the 10600k is able to fully leverage the 2070 super and everything below it that include a 2080 super as well but we didn't test it here obviously though that falls between the capped and the uncapped results and you can extrapolate as needed the 2070 super is led by 21 by the 2080 ti result which is getting truncated at 1080p and that's with the 10600k stock cpu so there's still a meaningful uplift with a 2080 ti but the 2080 super would get you most of the way there and you wouldn't be throwing away performance that's not being leveraged on the gpu pairing with a 2080 ti with a 10 600k would still scale with these lower demanding or lower resolution titles but it wouldn't commonly be worth it unless you're either going to tune your 10600k or you're going to be playing more intensive games that will be benchmarking momentarily if you're going for higher speed ram higher cash ratio and a core overclock you're still able to tap more performance than afforded on lower end hardware that said a 1200 2080 ti has never really felt particularly good to buy to begin with for a gaming system at 1440p the bottleneck obviously shifts towards the gpu in a more serious capacity the 10600k stock result averaged 127fps which is tied with the 10 600k 5.1 gigahertz 48x oc result that said the 5.1 gigahertz result had marginally more consistent frame times but it's barely outside of error for 0.1 percent lowest wins further the difference is one that is measurable but imperceptible to the player you're not going to notice it in other words they're the same overclocking didn't help us unlock more performance because we're already bound by the gpu so we'd have to overclock that as well or wait for a 3000 series card the 2080 ti stock 10600k result leads the 2070 super is 95fps average by 34 percent here so the gap has grown as a result of reduced cpu load and a result of the increased demand on bandwidth the 5700xc is just behind the 2070 super the 2080 super would sit between these and the 2080 ti clearly and the 2060 and down will be more limiting than the cpu would be here's 4k if there were any doubt that we were gpu bound now it's clear the 2080 ti runs at 75 fps average with its stock and oc numbers leading the 2070 super by 39 if you're going to be playing at higher resolutions and higher graphics settings and particularly if you're not chasing ultra high fps for competitive games the cpu doesn't hold the same weight as the gpu that shifts if you start targeting higher frame rate or care more about non-gaming workloads but here you could buy any of these cards and be fully against the limit of the card not the 10600k total war 3 kingdoms and the battle benchmark comes up next at 1080p our maximum frame rate was 115 fps average on the 10 600k the average between stock and overclocked is the same but the lows again show favor towards the overclock we'll look at frame times on a different plot in a moment to help illustrate this the best result for the 10600k and the 2080 ti leads the 2070 super by about 38 which is about as much scaling as you'll get out of these parts with ultra settings we're almost completely gpu bound up until at least to 2080 ti and we'd need something better to release at least in the gaming class to see more than that frame times aren't too heavily affected but we can show a difference for sake of education mostly this is what it looks like remember that frame time plots are the closest empirical measurement of frame to frame feeling of gameplay for the player a 16.67 millisecond frame time as example would calculate out to a 60 fps rate but the question of over what period you're averaging begins to make this abstraction from the base metric of time sort of a funny question the overclocked result doesn't spike as high as frequently as the 10600k stock result does which is why that difference became visible in the average one percent and 0.1 worst frames of all captured at 1440p the results show a massive 42 lead by the 2080 ti over the 2070 super showing that you could buy up to a 2080 ti and be fully leveraged on the gpu and also fully leveraged on your finances the 2070 super or as an uncharted middle step that you could easily approximate the 2080 super would both make good sense here in this particular chart the 5700 xt trails the 2070 super but that's not true in all tests so at that point you're asking for a gpu benchmark we'll switch to the opposite style of game f1 2019 runs at high frame rates even with ultra settings so the cpu does matter more here than it does in most of the other higher graphics setting games like tomb raider for example at 1080p ultra the 5.1 gigahertz 48x result has the 2080 ti solution at 206 fps average which is about the same as the 206 fps average of the stock 10 600k and 2080 ti one note that the 2080 ti extreme result for the 8086k is for a different video card we use the xc ultra for our 10600k gpu bottleneck benchmarks but it's just there for reference we see some more scaling with that combination but that's strictly there for the reference point to our gpu bench hardware which is different from our cpu bench hardware that said there's a bit more to it that we'll discuss in a moment the 2080 ti leads the 2070 super result by 32 here which is a noteworthy leap for a 1080p result the 2080 super would fall between these and would be fully leveraged by the cpu so anything below the 2080 ti avoids a hard cpu bottleneck and the 2080 ti often avoids one as well it just depends on the resolution and the graphics the difference between the 8086k 2060 ko results and the 10 600k ko result we think is related to in silicon mitigations between the two revisions of 14 nanometer silicon the 5 gigahertz frequency of the 8086k is a potential difference as well obviously but given that we're still gpu bound first we're thinking that mitigation is the most likely first impact to the delta at 1440p the 2080 ti the 2070 super gap is 37 widening from the previous 32 result thanks to the increased pixel processing load and the memory bandwidth requirements at higher resolutions the 10 600k does limit the 2080 ti a bit here but we're in a gpu bound scenario now so most results including one percent lows are tied to the gpu more than the cpu this would change if we dropped to a sufficiently low end cpu like a 3100 especially if cross ccx latency becomes a factor 4k is the last for f1 2019 we're still about 100 fps average at the top end of what the 10600k is capable of but like the 1440p result there's no benefit to be had from our overclock here maybe if we also overclocked the memory and the gpu but for the most part it's a gpu upgrade or a serious gpu overclock that would need to happen prior to seeing a meaningful uplift past 96 to 97 fps numbers for the average red dead redemption 2 the biggest pain in the ass the benchmark in our suite is up next at 1080p and with dx12 we've previously done vulcan tests with red dead and have explained the difference between vulcan and dx12 for performance so you can check our cpu methodology piece for more of that information at 1080p the 2080 ti maxes out at 128 fps average with lows improved in the 10600k 5.1 gigahertz overclock but the average overall is the same further with some increased variability and run to run consistency with red dead that one percent low delta loses some of its significance that it might have in other titles the current lead over the 5700 xt is about 28 for the 2080 ti this game already poses a heavy gpu bind so even at 1080p frame rates are natively somewhat restrictive without dropping to ridiculously low graphics settings anyway if you're not seeking peak performance at 1080p a 5700 xt or a 2070 super might make sense whereas a 2080 super would split the middle give you more performance and obviously cost more but still not be bound by the 10600k still a 2080 ti is almost completely leveraged here the cpu isn't as much of a concern although an overclock on it may help with bringing up the lows marginally for a bit more consistency at least until you hit those higher resolutions at 1440p that bind becomes more exaggerated our 10600k stock result is not sufficiently different from the overclock and is within run to run variants so they're functionally equal the stock 10600k and 2080 ti lead the 5700 xt by 35 percent so the delta has grown by seven percentage points but not seven percent to be clear because stat math is funny that said all the way down to the 2060 ko we're still seeing close to 60 fps average with proportionally spaced one percent and 0.1 low values 4k knocks the results down hard with our stock 10 600k and 2080 ti 62fps average losing 39 of the frame rate that it held at 1440p that's a big trade-off for the resolution hike but also not news to anyone it also relegates you to the 2080 ti at these settings and this resolution for red dead 2. the cpu just isn't as important here although it would certainly still have a frame time impact if you paired the 2080 ti with a 100 cpu if your goal for gaming looks something like this there's not any reason to worry about becoming too limited by the cpu if you're buying something like a 10600k or similar further there's not much reason to become overly concerned about a cpu overclock or spending a huge amount of money on better memory the gpu bind is where the money for the most part should be thrown but that obviously becomes a bit more nebulous if you're planning to do other things with your system than just gaming hitman 2 is last interesting because it shows expressive cpu scaling in our cpu reviews the top of the chart is our overclocked result which actually does improve in this game the 5700 xt 2070 super and 2080 ti are all bound by the cpu at 1080p where they end up equivalent because the limitations imposed by the cpu stock performance restrict them to the same frame rate these results are within variance in other words if we re-ran them over and over the ordering would change slightly with each set but they would all be functionally equivalent overclocking the cpu gets it to 138 fps average which allows an improvement of about seven percent without a memory tune in this game and other games that are similarly cpu intensive we use heavy cpu simulation settings most the time you'll either want a higher end cpu or a lower end gpu to avoid wasting money on an unusable level of performance the 2060 super is about the peak before hitting a cpu bind with this particular set of settings and this game 1440p isn't much better the gpu bind is now compressing the 5.1 gigahertz frame rate to 133 but the 2080 ti with the stock 10 600k runs lower so it's still cpu bound even at 1440p the 2080 ti does lead the 2070 super here but not enough to be warranted since we know it's constrained the 2080 super might make more sense as a high-end purchase if coupling it with a 10-600k and a similar game to this but anything below it would also be fine and unconstrained at 4k the difference becomes more meaningful but even still the cpu overclock grants us some meager performance improvements there are more games out there like this of course and anyone focused on more competitive titles with lower graphics quality or higher frame rate focus should instead defer to our cpu reviews where that's the goal of those benchmarks wrapping all this up then the 2080 super would be about where you can kind of reasonably stop and get something that should be fully leveraged by the cpu you're going to run into a gpu limit there you're not going to be throwing away a portion of your gpu purchase because the cpu is not powerful enough in most applications now again competitive high fps games that's a different scenario we have other content for that but for someone who we think probably most of the user base likes to have generally higher graphic settings even if you're competitive you might not be competitive enough to want 240fps and in that case 2080 super makes sense 2080 ti in a lot of these games you do get full scaling once you go up to 1440 4k especially you get pretty much full scaling all the way and the 10600 is zero limitation on it now even at 1080 there's pretty full scaling and a lot of them not all of them hitman 2 is a good example and there are other games out there like hitman 2 we can't reasonably test all games and because we did a matrix of three resolutions per game that's already a lot of tests across all these cards and a couple different cpus for the 8086k baseline so in general 2080 super and lower for most gaming scenarios will allow you full utilization of the gpu we're not saying buy a 2080 super with the 10 600k we're not saying it makes the most sense we're saying is that below that point just don't even worry about it don't worry about if you're limiting your gpu with your cpu because you're probably not going to be in most scenarios 2080 ti is hard to justify already as we said in here in a lot of these games you may be fully leveraged for the 2080 ti's performance you might be able to extract all of it but you're also going to extract all the money out of your bank account and be financially leveraged so just kind of depends on what your financial situation is and if you're doing that kind of pairing any way you really need to be at the higher resolutions to fully utilize it and make sure you're not out of cpu bind now that said at some point you're gonna be bound on something in cb or gpu so you make a choice and then of course finally if you want any kind of workstation insight if you're doing stuff other than gaming check out our cpu reviews for that because when you're trying to balance how much you spent on each component if it's outside of only gaming it gets a little more complicated if it's only gaming then well 10 600k is a good cost-saving measure to not fully spend on a 10-9 and you can spend the rest on gpu and that'll get you pretty far if you want to save more money still the 3600 and the 3300x are both good contenders that aren't as high frame rate they won't reach the same height so the 10600k but they'll get pretty damn close and they're cheaper so you can check out our coverage of those for more information on that and the bottlenecking 3300x content would be where we'd point you next thanks for watching to support this kind of content you can go to store.gamertexas.net and pick up one of our mouse mats on backward we'll pop up some b-roll around the screen they are going to be available again soon but we ran out within 48 hours for our first run you can also go to patreon.comgamersnexus or you can just subscribe and watch more videos thanks for watching we'll see you all next time sowe've ascended to a higher plane of existence because our thumbnails now have physics andrew made a physics simulation for our gpu bottlenecking thumbnail which is what we're showing today the 10600k got our strong recommendation for gaming focused builds that don't need to stretch as far as a 10 900k which often ends up at about the same place as a 10 600k in most games not all applications but a lot of games you'll end up in about the same place so with that known now and with the r3 3300x previously benchmarked for gpu bottlenecks with this same approach we're now looking at when the 10600k stops making sense as a pair with different gpus so we're testing from the 2080 ti at the top end down to some of the mid-range cards like a 5600 xt for example or a 2060 ko and we also have one set of benchmarks with a 5.1 gigahertz overclock on the 10 600k and a 48x cache ratio just to see if it changes at all especially at the lower resolutions before that this video is brought to you by the be quiet purebase 500 dx the purebase 500 dx is a new push from v quiet into mesh fronted cases that are more thermally focused the 500dx maintains high build quality and attention to detail for its dust filters front panel installation and fan placement and still has additional focus on noise control the case comes with three 140mm pure wayne's two-fan stock and has rgb leds but with a physical hardware switch for easy control learn more about the be quiet purebase 500 dx at the link in the description below so the testing today it ranges from 1080p up to 4k we've got 1440 in there as well typically we do 1080 and 1440 for our cpu reviews cpu reviews are dialed in a way with the games chosen and the settings chosen that what we're looking for obviously is a cpu scale so what we want to know is top to bottom how much difference is there from one cpu to the next without chopping off the top end of performance too much now eventually with something like a 10 900k it starts to get hard to avoid that gpu limitation where the cpus are getting so good and so fast at what they're doing that you have to either find new ways to show a difference or you have to kind of settle and say well this is about the limit for what real world is this is already medium settings 1080p what more do you want so that's the challenge we ran into with the 10 the 10 900k and you can watch our reviews for more information on that and where we circumvented it and where we couldn't circumvent it and just called it real world today though the 10600k is one of the better cpus the best cpu for gaming we think even though the 10900k technically has a lead the 10600k achieves most of that lead with an overclock in realistic scenarios and even in unrealistic scenarios where you mostly cpu constrained you're still talking a high core count high thread count cpu hyper threading now high frequencies the games they're not like blender where it'll just scale infinitely with threads so the 10 6 is pretty good now again we did this with the 3300x previously but we're doing 1080 through 4k today this is using our cpu methodology games but with our gpu methodology graphics settings so you'll have to look at the chart titles to see what the graphics settings are they're different they can't be cross compared with the results from the cpu reviews because we're using different graphics settings explicitly to stress the gpu in this benchmark to see at what point it stops scaling and finally as a note 2 if you're more interested in competitive high fps games you might turn your graphics down or you play games that are natively low graphics quality like cs go or dota to begin with then what you're really looking for is a cpu benchmark not a gpu bottleneck benchmark because in most of those instances you're talking about high single thread load high frequency demand and that'll show better in the cpu reviews than in this content which this is more for someone who likes to crank the graphics settings as high as is reasonably permissible by the hardware that they have rather than trying to get 240 fps for example so that's what we're looking at let's get into the benchmarks shadow of the tomb raider at 1080p high has the 10600k maxing out at 172 fps average with the cpu and the cash ratio overclock that allows it a lead over the 10600k stock results 163 fps average of about 5.8 percent that's a measurable repeatable difference and it shows that the 10600k is limiting the 2080 ti even with the higher graphics settings at 1080p for stock results the 10600k 2080 ti ends up close to the 8086k5 gigahertz result in this game from our standard gpu bench and the hardware used for that more appropriately though the 10600k is able to fully leverage the 2070 super and everything below it that include a 2080 super as well but we didn't test it here obviously though that falls between the capped and the uncapped results and you can extrapolate as needed the 2070 super is led by 21 by the 2080 ti result which is getting truncated at 1080p and that's with the 10600k stock cpu so there's still a meaningful uplift with a 2080 ti but the 2080 super would get you most of the way there and you wouldn't be throwing away performance that's not being leveraged on the gpu pairing with a 2080 ti with a 10 600k would still scale with these lower demanding or lower resolution titles but it wouldn't commonly be worth it unless you're either going to tune your 10600k or you're going to be playing more intensive games that will be benchmarking momentarily if you're going for higher speed ram higher cash ratio and a core overclock you're still able to tap more performance than afforded on lower end hardware that said a 1200 2080 ti has never really felt particularly good to buy to begin with for a gaming system at 1440p the bottleneck obviously shifts towards the gpu in a more serious capacity the 10600k stock result averaged 127fps which is tied with the 10 600k 5.1 gigahertz 48x oc result that said the 5.1 gigahertz result had marginally more consistent frame times but it's barely outside of error for 0.1 percent lowest wins further the difference is one that is measurable but imperceptible to the player you're not going to notice it in other words they're the same overclocking didn't help us unlock more performance because we're already bound by the gpu so we'd have to overclock that as well or wait for a 3000 series card the 2080 ti stock 10600k result leads the 2070 super is 95fps average by 34 percent here so the gap has grown as a result of reduced cpu load and a result of the increased demand on bandwidth the 5700xc is just behind the 2070 super the 2080 super would sit between these and the 2080 ti clearly and the 2060 and down will be more limiting than the cpu would be here's 4k if there were any doubt that we were gpu bound now it's clear the 2080 ti runs at 75 fps average with its stock and oc numbers leading the 2070 super by 39 if you're going to be playing at higher resolutions and higher graphics settings and particularly if you're not chasing ultra high fps for competitive games the cpu doesn't hold the same weight as the gpu that shifts if you start targeting higher frame rate or care more about non-gaming workloads but here you could buy any of these cards and be fully against the limit of the card not the 10600k total war 3 kingdoms and the battle benchmark comes up next at 1080p our maximum frame rate was 115 fps average on the 10 600k the average between stock and overclocked is the same but the lows again show favor towards the overclock we'll look at frame times on a different plot in a moment to help illustrate this the best result for the 10600k and the 2080 ti leads the 2070 super by about 38 which is about as much scaling as you'll get out of these parts with ultra settings we're almost completely gpu bound up until at least to 2080 ti and we'd need something better to release at least in the gaming class to see more than that frame times aren't too heavily affected but we can show a difference for sake of education mostly this is what it looks like remember that frame time plots are the closest empirical measurement of frame to frame feeling of gameplay for the player a 16.67 millisecond frame time as example would calculate out to a 60 fps rate but the question of over what period you're averaging begins to make this abstraction from the base metric of time sort of a funny question the overclocked result doesn't spike as high as frequently as the 10600k stock result does which is why that difference became visible in the average one percent and 0.1 worst frames of all captured at 1440p the results show a massive 42 lead by the 2080 ti over the 2070 super showing that you could buy up to a 2080 ti and be fully leveraged on the gpu and also fully leveraged on your finances the 2070 super or as an uncharted middle step that you could easily approximate the 2080 super would both make good sense here in this particular chart the 5700 xt trails the 2070 super but that's not true in all tests so at that point you're asking for a gpu benchmark we'll switch to the opposite style of game f1 2019 runs at high frame rates even with ultra settings so the cpu does matter more here than it does in most of the other higher graphics setting games like tomb raider for example at 1080p ultra the 5.1 gigahertz 48x result has the 2080 ti solution at 206 fps average which is about the same as the 206 fps average of the stock 10 600k and 2080 ti one note that the 2080 ti extreme result for the 8086k is for a different video card we use the xc ultra for our 10600k gpu bottleneck benchmarks but it's just there for reference we see some more scaling with that combination but that's strictly there for the reference point to our gpu bench hardware which is different from our cpu bench hardware that said there's a bit more to it that we'll discuss in a moment the 2080 ti leads the 2070 super result by 32 here which is a noteworthy leap for a 1080p result the 2080 super would fall between these and would be fully leveraged by the cpu so anything below the 2080 ti avoids a hard cpu bottleneck and the 2080 ti often avoids one as well it just depends on the resolution and the graphics the difference between the 8086k 2060 ko results and the 10 600k ko result we think is related to in silicon mitigations between the two revisions of 14 nanometer silicon the 5 gigahertz frequency of the 8086k is a potential difference as well obviously but given that we're still gpu bound first we're thinking that mitigation is the most likely first impact to the delta at 1440p the 2080 ti the 2070 super gap is 37 widening from the previous 32 result thanks to the increased pixel processing load and the memory bandwidth requirements at higher resolutions the 10 600k does limit the 2080 ti a bit here but we're in a gpu bound scenario now so most results including one percent lows are tied to the gpu more than the cpu this would change if we dropped to a sufficiently low end cpu like a 3100 especially if cross ccx latency becomes a factor 4k is the last for f1 2019 we're still about 100 fps average at the top end of what the 10600k is capable of but like the 1440p result there's no benefit to be had from our overclock here maybe if we also overclocked the memory and the gpu but for the most part it's a gpu upgrade or a serious gpu overclock that would need to happen prior to seeing a meaningful uplift past 96 to 97 fps numbers for the average red dead redemption 2 the biggest pain in the ass the benchmark in our suite is up next at 1080p and with dx12 we've previously done vulcan tests with red dead and have explained the difference between vulcan and dx12 for performance so you can check our cpu methodology piece for more of that information at 1080p the 2080 ti maxes out at 128 fps average with lows improved in the 10600k 5.1 gigahertz overclock but the average overall is the same further with some increased variability and run to run consistency with red dead that one percent low delta loses some of its significance that it might have in other titles the current lead over the 5700 xt is about 28 for the 2080 ti this game already poses a heavy gpu bind so even at 1080p frame rates are natively somewhat restrictive without dropping to ridiculously low graphics settings anyway if you're not seeking peak performance at 1080p a 5700 xt or a 2070 super might make sense whereas a 2080 super would split the middle give you more performance and obviously cost more but still not be bound by the 10600k still a 2080 ti is almost completely leveraged here the cpu isn't as much of a concern although an overclock on it may help with bringing up the lows marginally for a bit more consistency at least until you hit those higher resolutions at 1440p that bind becomes more exaggerated our 10600k stock result is not sufficiently different from the overclock and is within run to run variants so they're functionally equal the stock 10600k and 2080 ti lead the 5700 xt by 35 percent so the delta has grown by seven percentage points but not seven percent to be clear because stat math is funny that said all the way down to the 2060 ko we're still seeing close to 60 fps average with proportionally spaced one percent and 0.1 low values 4k knocks the results down hard with our stock 10 600k and 2080 ti 62fps average losing 39 of the frame rate that it held at 1440p that's a big trade-off for the resolution hike but also not news to anyone it also relegates you to the 2080 ti at these settings and this resolution for red dead 2. the cpu just isn't as important here although it would certainly still have a frame time impact if you paired the 2080 ti with a 100 cpu if your goal for gaming looks something like this there's not any reason to worry about becoming too limited by the cpu if you're buying something like a 10600k or similar further there's not much reason to become overly concerned about a cpu overclock or spending a huge amount of money on better memory the gpu bind is where the money for the most part should be thrown but that obviously becomes a bit more nebulous if you're planning to do other things with your system than just gaming hitman 2 is last interesting because it shows expressive cpu scaling in our cpu reviews the top of the chart is our overclocked result which actually does improve in this game the 5700 xt 2070 super and 2080 ti are all bound by the cpu at 1080p where they end up equivalent because the limitations imposed by the cpu stock performance restrict them to the same frame rate these results are within variance in other words if we re-ran them over and over the ordering would change slightly with each set but they would all be functionally equivalent overclocking the cpu gets it to 138 fps average which allows an improvement of about seven percent without a memory tune in this game and other games that are similarly cpu intensive we use heavy cpu simulation settings most the time you'll either want a higher end cpu or a lower end gpu to avoid wasting money on an unusable level of performance the 2060 super is about the peak before hitting a cpu bind with this particular set of settings and this game 1440p isn't much better the gpu bind is now compressing the 5.1 gigahertz frame rate to 133 but the 2080 ti with the stock 10 600k runs lower so it's still cpu bound even at 1440p the 2080 ti does lead the 2070 super here but not enough to be warranted since we know it's constrained the 2080 super might make more sense as a high-end purchase if coupling it with a 10-600k and a similar game to this but anything below it would also be fine and unconstrained at 4k the difference becomes more meaningful but even still the cpu overclock grants us some meager performance improvements there are more games out there like this of course and anyone focused on more competitive titles with lower graphics quality or higher frame rate focus should instead defer to our cpu reviews where that's the goal of those benchmarks wrapping all this up then the 2080 super would be about where you can kind of reasonably stop and get something that should be fully leveraged by the cpu you're going to run into a gpu limit there you're not going to be throwing away a portion of your gpu purchase because the cpu is not powerful enough in most applications now again competitive high fps games that's a different scenario we have other content for that but for someone who we think probably most of the user base likes to have generally higher graphic settings even if you're competitive you might not be competitive enough to want 240fps and in that case 2080 super makes sense 2080 ti in a lot of these games you do get full scaling once you go up to 1440 4k especially you get pretty much full scaling all the way and the 10600 is zero limitation on it now even at 1080 there's pretty full scaling and a lot of them not all of them hitman 2 is a good example and there are other games out there like hitman 2 we can't reasonably test all games and because we did a matrix of three resolutions per game that's already a lot of tests across all these cards and a couple different cpus for the 8086k baseline so in general 2080 super and lower for most gaming scenarios will allow you full utilization of the gpu we're not saying buy a 2080 super with the 10 600k we're not saying it makes the most sense we're saying is that below that point just don't even worry about it don't worry about if you're limiting your gpu with your cpu because you're probably not going to be in most scenarios 2080 ti is hard to justify already as we said in here in a lot of these games you may be fully leveraged for the 2080 ti's performance you might be able to extract all of it but you're also going to extract all the money out of your bank account and be financially leveraged so just kind of depends on what your financial situation is and if you're doing that kind of pairing any way you really need to be at the higher resolutions to fully utilize it and make sure you're not out of cpu bind now that said at some point you're gonna be bound on something in cb or gpu so you make a choice and then of course finally if you want any kind of workstation insight if you're doing stuff other than gaming check out our cpu reviews for that because when you're trying to balance how much you spent on each component if it's outside of only gaming it gets a little more complicated if it's only gaming then well 10 600k is a good cost-saving measure to not fully spend on a 10-9 and you can spend the rest on gpu and that'll get you pretty far if you want to save more money still the 3600 and the 3300x are both good contenders that aren't as high frame rate they won't reach the same height so the 10600k but they'll get pretty damn close and they're cheaper so you can check out our coverage of those for more information on that and the bottlenecking 3300x content would be where we'd point you next thanks for watching to support this kind of content you can go to store.gamertexas.net and pick up one of our mouse mats on backward we'll pop up some b-roll around the screen they are going to be available again soon but we ran out within 48 hours for our first run you can also go to patreon.comgamersnexus or you can just subscribe and watch more videos thanks for watching we'll see you all next 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