BottleneckScore the honest PC upgrade advisor

Does the Core i7-10700K bottleneck the RX 9070?

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 53/100. The CPU is the limiting side (CPU 54 vs GPU 57).

53/100
Build score for
Core i7-10700K + RX 9070

The pairing

CPUCore i7-10700K — score 54
GPURX 9070 — score 57
BottleneckCPU (équilibré)
SocketLGA 1200

Best-value upgrade

Best value
Ryzen 5 7600X
+10% performance · from 267 € · build score 53 → 58

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