AMD A8-9600 + Radeon RX 550

Processor

AMD A8-9600

3,304

CPU Mark

Faster than 52% of 1,255

Mild imbalance

Graphics card

Radeon RX 550

2,702

G3D Mark

Faster than 35% of 268

Limiting part

The AMD A8-9600 paired with the Radeon RX 550 produces a 10.37% bottleneck. The GPU is the limit, so it finishes its share of each frame last and the other component waits. A gap this size is usually recoverable through resolution and settings rather than new hardware.

Every build has a bottleneck; the question is only whether it sits where you want it. Read the figure alongside the limiting part, because the same percentage means different things at 1080p and at 4K.

Bottleneck by resolution

Raising resolution shifts load from the CPU to the GPU, so the balance of this pairing changes with the display it drives. Note this measures imbalance, not speed: the lowest figure is usually the lowest resolution, which is not the one to play at. Read it alongside the limiting part.

Smallest imbalance 1280x720 9.9% bottleneck · CPU-limited

Largest imbalance 7680x4620 19.6% bottleneck · GPU-limited

On this chart a longer bar is worse: it measures imbalance, not speed.

1280x720 9.9%

CPU-limited

1366x768 10.0%

CPU-limited

1600x900 10.1%

balanced

1920x1080 your setting 10.4%

GPU-limited

2560x1440 10.6%

GPU-limited

3840x2160 12.7%

GPU-limited

5120x2880 14.7%

GPU-limited

7680x4620 19.6%

GPU-limited

How these parts rank

Position within the 1,255 processors and 268 graphics cards in our database, by the same benchmark scores this calculator runs on.

Processor AMD A8-9600 Faster than 52% of CPUs listed · #608 of 1,255

Graphics card Radeon RX 550 Faster than 35% of GPUs listed · #173 of 268

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Related pairings

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Swap either component and see how the balance moves. Changing the resolution alone often matters more than changing a part.

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