Does the Core i5-8400 bottleneck the RX 9060 XT?

Q: Does the Core i5-8400 bottleneck the RX 9060 XT?

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck. Build score 30/100. Best-value upgrade: RX 9070 XT (+73% performance, 669 €).

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 30/100. The GPU is the limiting side (CPU 43 vs GPU 29).

30/100

Build score for
Core i5-8400 + RX 9060 XT

The pairing

CPU	Core i5-8400 — score 43
GPU	RX 9060 XT — score 29
Bottleneck	GPU (équilibré)
Socket	LGA 1151

Best-value upgrade

Best value

RX 9070 XT

+73% performance · from 669 € · build score 30 → 52

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