4770k and I just bought a new GPU

[xDiVolatilX]

Honestly I wouldn't recommend a 3060 for 4k. A 3070 I would say as a bare minimum for 4k personally. And the CPU wouldn't be able to deal with modern games either. To be frank, it time for a new system. That's ok though because it's fun to build a new PC 😉

 

[SpongeBob]

Honestly curious op what it says for a bottleneck in tombraider benchmark. You can get it in the demo free on steam if you want to find out.

 

[pippenainteasy]

Depends on the age of the games. Remember the GTX 1080 Ti and the 4770K certainly co-existed in many gaming systems, and the aftermarket 1080 Tis are about 33% faster than a stock RTX 3060. When the 1080 Ti came out the fastest gaming CPU was the 6700K, which was only about 10% faster than a 4770K. If you are talking about older DX11 style games, many of which weren't more than 1-2 threads max anyway, it's certainly doable. But newer games that aren't as CPU schedule bottlenecked would certainly struggle on a 4770K.

 

[jobert]

Depends on the age of the games. Remember the GTX 1080 Ti and the 4770K certainly co-existed in many gaming systems, and the aftermarket 1080 Tis are about 33% faster than a stock RTX 3060. When the 1080 Ti came out the fastest gaming CPU was the 6700K, which was only about 10% faster than a 4770K. If you are talking about older DX11 style games, many of which weren't more than 1-2 threads max anyway, it's certainly doable. But newer games that aren't as CPU schedule bottlenecked would certainly struggle on a 4770K.

Where are you pulling that 33% nonsense from? In the 3060 techpowerup review the 1080 TI is about 5 or 6% faster. And the 1080 TI and 3060 both have pretty much identical overclocking performance increases. I'll gladly link you to the reviews if you doubt me as I just looked at them.

And a 4770k can't come anywhere near averaging 60 FPS in plenty of games and tons of games where it stands no chance of even maintaining 40 or 50 for minimums. It's a choppy stuttery shit show in some cases.