Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.20GHz + Radeon RX 470/570

Processor

Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.20GHz

4,674

CPU Mark

Faster than 62% of 1,255

Limiting part

Mild imbalance

Graphics card

Radeon RX 470/570

8,044

G3D Mark

Faster than 57% of 268

The Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.20GHz paired with the Radeon RX 470/570 produces a 15.64% 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 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 15.6% bottleneck · CPU-limited

Largest imbalance 7680x4620 31.0% bottleneck · GPU-limited

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

1280x720 your setting 15.6%

CPU-limited

1366x768 15.8%

CPU-limited

1600x900 16.0%

CPU-limited

1920x1080 16.4%

CPU-limited

2560x1440 16.7%

balanced

3840x2160 20.1%

GPU-limited

5120x2880 23.2%

GPU-limited

7680x4620 31.0%

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 Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.20GHz Faster than 62% of CPUs listed · #471 of 1,255

Graphics card Radeon RX 470/570 Faster than 57% of GPUs listed · #115 of 268

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