I have a FX8350. I'm thinking of getting the Sapphire HD 7970 3GB DDR5. I heard somewhere that this card is too powerful for 8350 and it'll bottleneck. Is it true? How do the FX8350 and 7970 perform when paired together?
Buddy, I think you are referring to the Toms hardware review where they have tested Graphics card scalability with top CPUs from Intel and AMD, namely i7 3770K and FX-8350. Well, then read it again, that test was to check Crossfire ( 2 HD 7970 in CF) and SLI (two GTX 680 in SLI) Scalability, not single GPU. There is no noticeable bottleneck here.
Buddy, I think you are referring to the Toms hardware review where they have tested Graphics card scalability with top CPUs from Intel and AMD, namely i7 3770K and FX-8350. Well, then read it again, that test was to check Crossfire ( 2 HD 7970 in CF) and SLI (two GTX 680 in SLI) Scalability, not single GPU. There is no noticeable bottleneck here.
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