AMD Athlon X4 860K + Radeon RX 580
AMD Athlon X4 860K
Radeon RX 580
The AMD Athlon X4 860K paired with the Radeon RX 580 produces a 24.89% bottleneck. The CPU is the limit, so it finishes its share of each frame last and the other component waits. A gap this size is worth planning an upgrade around.
Estimated FPS at 1080p, high preset
Ranges, not exact figures: identical builds vary by roughly a quarter in real use depending on drivers, thermals and background load. Bars are scaled against the fastest title here, and each row states which component sets its ceiling.
Method: estimated from measured GPU baseline framerates and PassMark CPU scores, capped by whichever component limits first. Workload factors derived from the OpenML "fps-in-video-games" dataset (CC-BY, Sven Peeters).
AMD Athlon X4 860K and Radeon RX 580: FPS by game and resolution
High preset. Each cell is a range; the label marks which component sets the ceiling. Blank cells mean this pairing has no measured data for that combination, and nothing is estimated in.
| Game | 720p | 1080p | 1440p |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fortnite | 91-152 CPU | 92-153 CPU | 74-124 GPU |
| CS:GO | 162-269 CPU | 166-277 CPU | 120-200 GPU |
| PUBG | 74-124 CPU | 68-114 GPU | 57-94 GPU |
| GTA V | 58-97 CPU | 56-94 CPU | 46-76 GPU |
| Apex Legends | - | 67-112 GPU | - |
| Overwatch | - | 93-154 CPU | 74-124 GPU |
| League of Legends | - | 132-219 CPU | - |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 | - | 69-115 GPU | - |
| Battlefield 1 | - | 60-100 CPU | - |
| Battlefield 4 | - | 70-117 CPU | - |
| Rust | - | 52-87 GPU | - |
| Minecraft | - | 155-259 GPU | - |
| World of Tanks | - | 86-144 CPU | - |
| ARK: Survival Evolved | - | 49-81 GPU | - |
How quality settings affect this build: Fortnite at 1080p
Dropping settings only helps while the GPU is the limit. Once the label reads CPU, lowering quality stops buying frames on this pairing.
Every preset here is CPU-limited, which is exactly why the bars barely move.
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.
On this chart a longer bar is worse: it measures imbalance, not speed.
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.
Upgrade options
ASUS ROG Strix NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Intel Core i7-13700K
Related pairings
Other processors with the Radeon RX 580
Other graphics cards with the AMD Athlon X4 860K
Try a different pairing
Swap either component and see how the balance moves. Changing the resolution alone often matters more than changing a part.