Does the Core i7-8700K bottleneck the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB?

Q: Does the Core i7-8700K bottleneck the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB?

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck. Build score 34/100. Best-value upgrade: RX 9070 XT (+60% performance, 669 €).

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 34/100. The GPU is the limiting side (CPU 49 vs GPU 33).

34/100

Build score for
Core i7-8700K + RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

The pairing

CPU	Core i7-8700K — score 49
GPU	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB — score 33
Bottleneck	GPU (équilibré)
Socket	LGA 1151

Best-value upgrade

Best value

RX 9070 XT

+60% performance · from 669 € · build score 34 → 54

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