Ryzen 5 7600X3D + Radeon RX 9070 Bottleneck Calculator

Whether the Ryzen 5 7600X3D and the Radeon RX 9070 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) 153 fps CPU 5.6%
1080p (1920 x 1080) 120 fps Balanced 0%
1440p (2560 x 1440) 89 fps Balanced 0%
Ultrawide 1440p (3440 x 1440) 74 fps GPU 6.3%
4K (3840 x 2160) 52 fps GPU 34.8%
8K (7680 x 4320) 18 fps GPU 77.2%

What to do about it

Nothing to fix. At 1080p (1920 x 1080) the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has just enough headroom over the Radeon RX 9070 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.