Does the Core i7-12700K bottleneck the RTX 4090?

Q: Does the Core i7-12700K bottleneck the RTX 4090?

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck. Build score 76/100 for this pairing.

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 76/100. The CPU is the limiting side (CPU 77 vs GPU 82).

76/100

Build score for
Core i7-12700K + RTX 4090

The pairing

CPU	Core i7-12700K — score 77
GPU	RTX 4090 — score 82
Bottleneck	CPU (équilibré)
Socket	LGA 1700

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