Every CPU, ranked for bottlenecks.
Will your CPU bottleneck your GPU? Here are all 52, ranked by 1440p gaming performance — each with the GPUs that pair best, and a link to run the full bottleneck check on your build.
CPU bottleneck calculator.
Pick a CPU and a resolution, then browse every GPU it pairs with — flagged balanced, a bottleneck, or headroom to spare. Tap any row for the full verdict and FPS.
At 1440p, the AMD Ryzen 5 5600 is balanced with 8 · bottlenecks 18 · headroom on 28 GPUs.
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTBottleneck 4%
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXBottleneck 4%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080Bottleneck 4%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SuperBottleneck 4%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090Bottleneck 4%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TiBottleneck 4%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080Bottleneck 4%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090Bottleneck 4%
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 XTBottleneck 4%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperBottleneck 4%
- AMD Radeon RX 7800 XTBottleneck 4%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090Bottleneck 4%
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 GREBottleneck 3%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SuperBottleneck 2%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 TiBottleneck 2%
- AMD Radeon RX 7700 XTBottleneck 2%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 TiBottleneck 2%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070Bottleneck 1%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Balanced
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070Balanced
- AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTBalanced
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TiBalanced
- AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTBalanced
- AMD Radeon RX 6800 XTBalanced
- Intel Arc A770Balanced
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiBalanced
- AMD Radeon RX 7600Headroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 TiHeadroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060Headroom
- AMD Radeon RX 6800Headroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Headroom
- Intel Arc A750Headroom
- Intel Arc B580Headroom
- AMD Radeon RX 6750 XTHeadroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 TiHeadroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 TiHeadroom
- AMD Radeon RX 6700 XTHeadroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060Headroom
- Intel Arc B570Headroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Headroom
- AMD Radeon RX 6650 XTHeadroom
- AMD Radeon RX 5700 XTHeadroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080Headroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SuperHeadroom
- AMD Radeon RX 6600Headroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SuperHeadroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070Headroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Headroom
- AMD Radeon RX 5600 XTHeadroom
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060Headroom
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SuperHeadroom
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 TiHeadroom
- AMD Radeon RX 6500 XTHeadroom
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650Headroom
RANKPARTCORES/THREADSBOOSTINDEX (1440P)
- #01AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D16c / 32t5.7 GHz100
- #02AMD Ryzen 9 9900X12c / 24t5.6 GHz100
- #03AMD Ryzen 9 9950X16c / 32t5.7 GHz100
- #04AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D16c / 32t5.7 GHz100
- #05Intel Core i7-14700K20c / 28t5.6 GHz100
- #06Intel Core i9-13900K24c / 32t5.8 GHz100
- #07Intel Core i9-14900K24c / 32t6.0 GHz100
- #08Intel Core Ultra 9 285K24c / 24t5.7 GHz100
- #09AMD Ryzen 9 7950X16c / 32t5.7 GHz99
- #10Intel Core Ultra 7 265K20c / 20t5.5 GHz99
- #11Intel Core i7-13700K16c / 24t5.4 GHz98
- #12Intel Core Ultra 5 245K14c / 14t5.2 GHz96
- #13AMD Ryzen 7 9700X8c / 16t5.5 GHz94
- #14AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D8c / 16t5.2 GHz94
- #15Intel Core i5-13600K14c / 20t5.1 GHz93
- #16Intel Core i5-14600K14c / 20t5.3 GHz93
- #17AMD Ryzen 7 7700X8c / 16t5.4 GHz92
- #18AMD Ryzen 5 9600X6c / 12t5.4 GHz91
- #19Intel Core i9-12900K16c / 24t5.2 GHz91
- #20AMD Ryzen 5 7600X6c / 12t5.3 GHz90
- #21AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D8c / 16t5.0 GHz90
- #22AMD Ryzen 5 76006c / 12t5.1 GHz86
- #23Intel Core i7-12700K12c / 20t5.0 GHz86
- #24AMD Ryzen 9 5950X16c / 32t4.9 GHz83
- #25Intel Core i5-12600K10c / 16t4.9 GHz82
- #26AMD Ryzen 5 7500F6c / 12t5.0 GHz81
- #27AMD Ryzen 9 5900X12c / 24t4.8 GHz80
- #28Intel Core i5-14400F10c / 16t4.7 GHz77
- #29Intel Core i5-13400F10c / 16t4.6 GHz76
- #30Intel Core i9-11900K8c / 16t5.3 GHz76
- #31AMD Ryzen 7 5800X8c / 16t4.7 GHz75
- #32AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D8c / 16t4.5 GHz75
- #33Intel Core i5-12400F6c / 12t4.4 GHz74
- #34AMD Ryzen 7 5700X8c / 16t4.6 GHz73
- #35Intel Core i7-11700K8c / 16t5.0 GHz73
- #36AMD Ryzen 5 5600X6c / 12t4.6 GHz72
- #37Intel Core i3-13100F4c / 8t4.5 GHz71
- #38Intel Core i5-11600K6c / 12t4.9 GHz71
- #39Intel Core i9-10900K10c / 20t5.3 GHz70
- #40AMD Ryzen 5 56006c / 12t4.4 GHz69
- #41AMD Ryzen 9 3950X16c / 32t4.7 GHz69
- #42Intel Core i3-12100F4c / 8t4.3 GHz68
- #43AMD Ryzen 5 5600G6c / 12t4.4 GHz67
- #44Intel Core i7-10700K8c / 16t5.1 GHz67
- #45AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D8c / 16t4.1 GHz66
- #46AMD Ryzen 9 3900X12c / 24t4.6 GHz66
- #47AMD Ryzen 5 55006c / 12t4.2 GHz65
- #48Intel Core i5-11400F6c / 12t4.4 GHz63
- #49AMD Ryzen 7 3700X8c / 16t4.4 GHz60
- #50AMD Ryzen 5 3600X6c / 12t4.4 GHz59
- #51AMD Ryzen 5 36006c / 12t4.2 GHz57
- #52Intel Core i5-10400F6c / 12t4.3 GHz54