Does the Core i5-8400 bottleneck the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB?

Q: Does the Core i5-8400 bottleneck the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB?

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck. Build score 33/100. Best-value upgrade: RX 9070 XT (+59% performance, 669 €).

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 33/100. The GPU is the limiting side (CPU 43 vs GPU 32).

33/100

Build score for
Core i5-8400 + RTX 4060 Ti 8GB

The pairing

CPU	Core i5-8400 — score 43
GPU	RTX 4060 Ti 8GB — score 32
Bottleneck	GPU (équilibré)
Socket	LGA 1151

Best-value upgrade

Best value

RX 9070 XT

+59% performance · from 669 € · build score 33 → 52

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