What is the best processor for a GeForce GTX 1070?

At 1440p the Ryzen 5 4500 is the strongest pairing that stays balanced, for about 30 fps on High. Nothing faster adds frames, because the GeForce GTX 1070 becomes the limit.

What processor should I pair with a GeForce GTX 1070 at 1080p (1920 x 1080)?

The Ryzen 5 4500, for roughly 41 fps on High with no bottleneck in either direction.

What processor should I pair with a GeForce GTX 1070 at 1440p (2560 x 1440)?

The Ryzen 5 4500, for roughly 30 fps on High with no bottleneck in either direction.

What processor should I pair with a GeForce GTX 1070 at 4K (3840 x 2160)?

The Ryzen 5 4500, for roughly 12 fps on High with no bottleneck in either direction.

Best CPU for GeForce GTX 1070 in 2026

Every processor that pairs with the GeForce GTX 1070 without either part wasting the other, computed at 1080p, 1440p and 4K with the frame rate you can expect from each.

Our pick

Ryzen 5 4500

The cheapest current processor that never becomes the limit for a GeForce GTX 1070, including at 1080p where the card leans hardest on the CPU. It also still holds up if you replace the GeForce GTX 1070 with a GeForce RTX 5060 later, so you buy the processor once.

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What the numbers say about the GeForce GTX 1070

Every one of the 83 processors we track keeps a GeForce GTX 1070 fed at 1080p and above, which is what a card at 22.0 on our index looks like: the pairing question here is about price and platform rather than about whether the chip can keep up.

Estimated frame rate on High for the GeForce GTX 1070 with the Ryzen 5 4500, at each resolution.

The Ryzen 5 4500 is both the cheapest processor that works with a GeForce GTX 1070 and the one that survives replacing the card, so for this pairing there is no trade between the two.

That upgrade test uses the GeForce RTX 5060, roughly two tiers above the GeForce GTX 1070 at 38.0 on our index against 22.0, and a processor that is still not the limit at that level is one you buy once.

Paired with the Ryzen 5 4500, a GeForce GTX 1070 returns about 41 fps at 1080p and 30 fps at 1440p on High, and if 41 fps is already more than your monitor can show then the card rather than the processor is the part to change.

The pick at each resolution

Resolution	Recommended	Estimated fps	Result
1080p (1920 x 1080)	Ryzen 5 4500	41 fps	GPU limited
1440p (2560 x 1440)	Ryzen 5 4500	30 fps	GPU limited
4K (3840 x 2160)	Ryzen 5 4500	12 fps	GPU limited

Every processor that works with the GeForce GTX 1070 at 1080p

83 of the 83 processors we track keep the GeForce GTX 1070 fed at 1080p, and the 18 cheapest of those still on a current platform are below, least expensive first, because once a chip stops limiting a GeForce GTX 1070 the rest of the budget belongs on the card.

Processor	Estimated fps	Result
AMD Ryzen 5 4500	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 5 5500	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 5 5600	41 fps	GPU	Full result
Intel Core i3-12100F	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT	41 fps	GPU	Full result
Intel Core i5-12400F	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D	41 fps	GPU	Full result
Intel Core i5-14400F	41 fps	GPU	Full result
Intel Core i5-13400F	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 5 7600	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 9 7900	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 7 7700	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X	41 fps	GPU	Full result
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X	41 fps	GPU	Full result

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Estimates built from published benchmark data, not a test of your exact PC. How we calculate this.

Every figure on this page is modelled for the GeForce GTX 1070 from published benchmark data rather than measured on a test bench, and recommendations alongside it are limited to parts from 2022 onward. How we calculate this