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Does the Core i7-13700K bottleneck the RX 7900 GRE?

Yes — the GPU is clearly holding this build back

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 52/100. The GPU is the limiting side (CPU 86 vs GPU 48).

52/100
Build score for
Core i7-13700K + RX 7900 GRE

The pairing

CPUCore i7-13700K — score 86
GPURX 7900 GRE — score 48
BottleneckGPU (limiting)
SocketLGA 1700

Best-value upgrade

Best value
RTX 5080
+39% performance · from 1159 € · build score 52 → 72

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