Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Benchmarking the Ryzen 7 1700 in 8 games using a Radeon RX 6700 and Geforce RTX 3070 to test driver overhead in CPU limited situations.

Now that DirectX12 and Vulkan are the rendering APIs of choice for modern games, the familiar strategy of upgrading the GPU ahead of the CPU is making less sense. CPUs can now hold back GPUs more readily than in the past, and it turns out that this is even more of a problem for Nvidia. Does this mean that a newer graphics card from AMD is a better choice for owners of older CPUs?

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00:00 Is NVIDIA driver overhead holding back your old PC?
01:05 Background: what is driver overhead?
03:16 Test System: Ryzen 7 1700, 32GB DDR4-3600, RTX 3070 & RX 6700
03:30 CPU Limited Benchmarks: Ryzen 1700, NVIDIA vs. AMD
09:54 Summary
10:58 Old CPU vs. New: Ryzen 1700 vs. 5600X
13:56 Conclusion

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