Ryzen 9 9900X3D + GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Bottleneck Calculator

Whether the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 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) 168 fps CPU 17.3%
1080p (1920 x 1080) 148 fps Balanced 4.7%
1440p (2560 x 1440) 110 fps Balanced 0%
Ultrawide 1440p (3440 x 1440) 91 fps Balanced 0%
4K (3840 x 2160) 64 fps GPU 25.6%
8K (7680 x 4320) 23 fps GPU 74%

What to do about it

Nothing to fix. At 1080p (1920 x 1080) the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has just enough headroom over the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 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.