Does A Ryzen 5 3600 Bottleneck an RTX 3080/3090? - Should You Upgrade Your CPU For 1080P Gaming?

The Ryzen 5 3600 is a very popular CPU amongst PC Gamers and hardware enthusiasts. With this chip running in so many gaming PCs, I was wondering what would happen if somebody decided to use a new high-end graphics card like the GeForce RTX 3090 at 1080P? How bad would the bottleneck be and how much performance is being left on the table due to a CPU limitation? TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:34 Ryzen 5 3600 A Very Popular CPU 02:13 Price to Performance 02:38 New Graphics Cards and CPUs 04:01 Test Bench 04:59 CSGO 05:28 Elder Scrolls Online 06:01 Hitman 2 06:24 Forza Horizon 4 06:53 Cyberpunk 2077 07:17 AC Valhalla 07:38 Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord 08:01 18 Game Average 08:24 Results Would Be The Same With RTX 3080 08:42 Bottleneck Varies By Game 09:17 Should You Upgrade? 10:01 4K Benchmarks No CPU Bottleneck 10:20 Conclusion Interesting in buying a Ryzen 5000 Series CPU TEST System SPECS CPU: Ryzen 9 3900X CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i Pro XT AIO Ram: Partriot Viper Steel 32GB(4x8GB) 3600MHz 14-14-14-28 Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 Unify SSD: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB PSU: EVGA G3 1000 Watch my RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio Review Here ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Buy an MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X trio here⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Pick up an RTX 3080 Graphics card here ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Follow me on Twitter System Specifications (R9 3900X) CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 SE AM4 RAM: G Skill Trident Z 16GB(2x8GB) 3600MHz CL14 Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master Graphics Card: EVGA RTX 2080 XC Gaming Watercooled SSD1...