Core i7-12700K + GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Bottleneck Calculator

Whether the Core i7-12700K and the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti hold each other back, at every resolution, with the frame rate you can expect and the single upgrade that fixes it.

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

The same pair at every resolution

A processor pushes roughly the same number of frames whatever the resolution. A graphics card pushes far fewer as pixels go up. That is why the limit moves as you climb this table, and why a bottleneck figure quoted without a resolution means nothing.

ResolutionEstimated fpsLimited byGap
720p (1280 x 720) 142 fps CPU 12.9%
1080p (1920 x 1080) 119 fps Balanced 2.3%
1440p (2560 x 1440) 89 fps Balanced 0%
Ultrawide 1440p (3440 x 1440) 74 fps Balanced 0%
4K (3840 x 2160) 52 fps GPU 29.3%
8K (7680 x 4320) 14 fps GPU 81.4%

What to do about it

Nothing to fix. At 1080p (1920 x 1080) the Core i7-12700K has just enough headroom over the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti to keep the card fed without wasting money on either side. This is what a balanced build looks like.

Modelled from published benchmark data, not measured on this exact combination. The indexes behind these figures and the sources they come from are on how we calculate this.