Reduce CPU speed to ease pressure on a struggling GPU.
Reduce CPU speed to ease pressure on a struggling GPU.
You're considering a budget gaming setup with your Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 2070. You're thinking about pairing it with an HD 7700 GPU but noticed a GPU bottleneck. Underclocking the CPU might help, but it could affect overall performance. It's important to weigh the trade-offs carefully.
The problem lies in the graphics card's insufficient power to match the CPU requirements. The best solution is to buy a significantly stronger card.
It wouldn't make sense to have a bottleneck in that configuration.
You can't fix a slowdown by slowing down your GPU. A bottleneck happens when one part (CPU or GPU) is better than the others, preventing them from working together efficiently.
The concept of a bottleneck can't be measured with numbers. Sites claiming to analyze it are Hokum. Simply slowing down your CPU won't increase performance, making this approach ineffective.
I hadn't thought about that path before. Have you experimented with a comparable setup? I was wondering if aligning their clocks could boost power usage. There seems to be no advantage in trying to slow down the system or enhancing efficiency without affecting performance overall. Also, thank you for your patience—this is my first attempt at building a computer.