Does the Core Ultra 7 265K bottleneck the RTX 4090?

Q: Does the Core Ultra 7 265K bottleneck the RTX 4090?

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck. Build score 78/100 for this pairing.

Well balanced — no meaningful bottleneck

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 78/100. The GPU is the limiting side (CPU 85 vs GPU 82).

78/100

Build score for
Core Ultra 7 265K + RTX 4090

The pairing

CPU	Core Ultra 7 265K — score 85
GPU	RTX 4090 — score 82
Bottleneck	GPU (équilibré)
Socket	LGA 1851

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