We Tested Multiple Bottleneck Calculators With the Same Hardware. The Results Were Alarming.
An RTX 3070 paired with a Ryzen 5 5600X — a combo that real-world benchmarks consistently rate as well-matched for 1440p gaming — showed wildly different bottleneck percentages across popular online tools. Some flagged it as a serious problem. Others called it perfectly balanced.
The difference comes down to what each tool actually measures. Most ignore resolution entirely. Some use benchmark databases that haven't been updated in years. A few don't even distinguish between gaming and content creation workloads.
What separates a reliable bottleneck tool from a useless one: resolution awareness, updated hardware data, use-case specificity, and honest context around the numbers it gives you.
The tools that check all those boxes are rare. Here's one worth bookmarking.
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