Does the Core i5-8400 bottleneck the RTX 4070 Ti?

Q: Does the Core i5-8400 bottleneck the RTX 4070 Ti?

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck. Build score 47/100. Best-value upgrade: Ryzen 5 7600X (+18% performance, 267 €).

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 47/100. The CPU is the limiting side (CPU 43 vs GPU 54).

47/100

Build score for
Core i5-8400 + RTX 4070 Ti

The pairing

CPU	Core i5-8400 — score 43
GPU	RTX 4070 Ti — score 54
Bottleneck	CPU (équilibré)
Socket	LGA 1151

Best-value upgrade

Best value

Ryzen 5 7600X

+18% performance · from 267 € · build score 47 → 56

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