Powerful CPU + Good GPU vs Powerful GPU + Good CPU PC

[Fleetboy2024]

yes I know, balance is still the best..

but what if you only have this two choices

in terms of gaming

would you go with a weaker CPU stronger GPU, or strong CPU weak GPU?

I was told, its better to have a stronger CPU so that you GPU will be utilized more.....

instead of having a weak CPU, that means your GPU will have to wait for the CPU to process every time, which affects its performance by a lot

please correct me

 

[Fleetboy2024]

let me rephrase the question

I just want to know one thing, does the GPU utilized more (or works harder) if the CPU is weaker or if its stronger?

 

[Fleetboy2024]

nevermind

got the answer from google, thanks anyway

 

[Colif]

its really hard to find a balance. There will always be a bottleneck of some kind in the PC, remove one and something else is slow,

I generally think its better to have a good CPU over a GPU, mainly as you can normally upgrade the GPU later on far easier than you can swap CPU in most cases.

 

[Fleetboy2024]

its really hard to find a balance. There will always be a bottleneck of some kind in the PC, remove one and something else is slow,

I generally think its better to have a good CPU over a GPU, mainly as you can normally upgrade the GPU later on far easier than you can swap CPU in most cases.

thank you

 

[BeardyHat]

In one of my PCs I have an i7-7700 paired to a 6650XT. So a 2017 CPU paired to a 2022 GPU.

It's not amazing, but it works and runs most modern games at 60fps 1080p medium/high.

But I was and am just using what I have.

 

[Zloth]

Different games have a different balance. First person shooters don't need a lot of CPU power; it's mostly the GPU doing the work. However, X4: Foundations and real time strategy games that feature hundreds of units all trying to think for themselves will flip that balance on its head.

And, just to make things more fun, CPU power isn't easy to measure, either. Some games only have one or two threads doing the heavy lifting - in which case having half a dozen cores in the CPU doesn't help at all. Other games are better at spreading the load around.

 

[JCgames]

Just buy budget on both a 14600 cpu paired with a 5060 is going to run anything you throw at it for the next 6+ Years. While it might not be max graphics with ray tracing at 4k, you also doing it for under 1k a high end comp is going to cost you 3-4 grand. Sure it might look a shade nicer but is it 3k dollars nicer?

You could buy 40 games at launch for the money youd save.

Also, like the other guy said, what you are playing matters a bit, but not that much really. In 4 years you could upgrade your cpu and scavenge that card and play that system for another 4-5 years with a 500 dollar upgrade, that would be better than a top end cpu today.

Comp parts dont age well, but when done right even a budget system can last 5-6 years no problem. My current one isa 5 year old cpu and going on 9 year old gpu and im not going to upgrade for another generation, aka end of next year and it still plays current games at 1080p

Remember games are designed to run well on 5 year old systems. Most games even by the time they are released because they take so long to make often run better on older hardware as the new stuff has bugs to iron out and are optimized for that hardware, verse new stuff that the devs never even tested on as it didnt exist.

Not really an answer to your question, but more reality of tech that might help you decide what things are really worth.

All that said, a current game im playing i over clocked my cpu by 20% which is a pretty big OC, it didnt gain a single fps. So that game the gpu is way more imprtant that the cpu. Another game i play barely touches the gpu, but that oc really helps. So it becomes a big old, it depends what your playing, what resolution you want to play at and how much tiny graphic tweeks are worth to you.

 

[Charagma]

You can "out" adjust a bottleneck CPU with GPU settings. Pretty much just increase the GPU settings to work harder for the CPU to be able to "keep up" with the GPU. Having a constant FPS vs, a jumped FPS helps a lot already

I do not know if it is possible the other way round.