A current i5 quad core would not run into a CPU bottleneck in 99% of titles, today, K-series or not.<br>

And I'd argue that almost anyone buying one of these GPU's has gaming in mind, and will be opting for a K-Series anyway.<br><br>

People are really blowing up this CPU issue. It effects almost no one. When there is somewhat of a performance difference, we're talking about i3's and Bulldozer chips paired with Hawaii or Fury compared to Titan or a 980 Ti in heavily CPU-bound games. Even then, you're still pushing over 100 FPS, yet you're complaining because the NV card is doing 120 FPS.<br><br>

No one in their right mind will care if they get CPU bound around 100 FPS with AMD cards that are paired to mediocre CPU's. And that is where we see a CPU bottleneck: when AMD cards are pushing around 100 FPS.<br><br>

The way people are carrying on about it, you'd think you couldn't get over 45FPS without AMD cards getting CPU bound. It's not like that at all.<br><br><br>

If AMD could do 150 frames per second and NV could only do 100 in a CPU bound scenario with an i3 would anyone care? No.<br>

And it's not a new issue. AMD has always become CPU bound sooner than NV cards, even as far back as the x1950 XTX nearly a decade ago. It's amazing to me that people are only talking about it now. I guess people don't do as much critical thinking nowadays.<br>

I bought the x1950 XTX because it would crush the 7900 GT in the 40-100 FPS range. After 100, the 7900 GT would win. It would also win on charts of averages, <b>but when the game was actually limited by GPU grunt, ATi would win.</b> <i>When you were doing over a hundred frames and it didn't matter, NV would win.</i><br><br>

That's another thing people don't realize about "Boost." Yet again, average FPS skyrockets for certain segments of a benchmark because the GPU is relatively unloaded and can push twice as many frames that you'll never see. At the end of the test, it makes a big difference in averages when the NV GPU pushed as many extra frames as it possibly could by raising it's clocks while GPU-load was minimal.<br><br>

Talk about something that is relevant to the actual performance of these cards, not something that only makes a difference when the card is pushing 100+ frames already.