I just bought an RX 7600 and I'm a bit anxious about whether my i3-10100F will bottleneck its performance. I'm planning to upgrade my CPU and motherboard in the future, but that's not happening anytime soon. I'll mainly be using this setup for playing Valorant and some other games. Here are my specs just in case they matter: I've got 16GB of RAM running at 2400 MHz, the i3-10100F CPU, the RX 7600 with 8GB, and an MSI MAG 650W power supply along with a BIOSTAR H510M-H motherboard.
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Honestly, the i3-10100F is going to limit any GPU, including your RX 7600. What’s your current setup like?
In really CPU-heavy games like Cyberpunk, the i3-10100F might hold back the RX 7600. But for something like Valorant, you should be fine; you probably won’t see much of a difference.
I really hope it doesn’t. I had an RX 6600 before, but it actually made my performance worse in Valorant, never hitting more than 120 fps and getting awful stutters when things got intense. I still can’t tell if it was the GPU or my CPU causing those issues.
For now, I’m on a GTX 960 4GB.