Does the Core i9-13900K bottleneck the RTX 4090?

Q: Does the Core i9-13900K bottleneck the RTX 4090?

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck. Build score 79/100. Best-value upgrade: RTX 5090 (+15% performance, 3759 €).

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 79/100. The GPU is the limiting side (CPU 90 vs GPU 82).

79/100

Build score for
Core i9-13900K + RTX 4090

The pairing

CPU	Core i9-13900K — score 90
GPU	RTX 4090 — score 82
Bottleneck	GPU (équilibré)
Socket	LGA 1700

Best-value upgrade

Best value

RTX 5090

+15% performance · from 3759 € · build score 79 → 91

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