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Does the Core Ultra 9 285K bottleneck the RTX 4070 Ti Super?

Slight GPU bottleneck — not dramatic

At 1440p with 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, this pairing scores 60/100. The GPU is the limiting side (CPU 88 vs GPU 57).

60/100
Build score for
Core Ultra 9 285K + RTX 4070 Ti Super

The pairing

CPUCore Ultra 9 285K — score 88
GPURTX 4070 Ti Super — score 57
BottleneckGPU (limiting)
SocketLGA 1851

Best-value upgrade

Best value
RTX 5080
+20% performance · from 1159 € · build score 60 → 72

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