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I’m trying to decide if I should upgrade my GTX 1660 Super to something like an RTX 4060 for the newer games I want to play, but I’m worried my older Ryzen 5 2600 will just hold it back anyway. I’m not sure if the performance jump would be worth the cost if the processor becomes the main bottleneck.

I swapped a RTX 4060 into a system with a Ryzen 5 2600 and played mostly at 1080p. The FPS jump was real and consistent in most newer games, like a 40–60% lift and a lot of titles sitting well over 120 fps on a decent 1080p monitor. In a couple CPU heavy open world games I still saw some dips, so the CPU wasn’t irrelevant, but the GPU upgrade was worth it for the majority of games.

Do you mostly play at 1080p with a high refresh rate?

I worried the 2600 would throttle the 4060, but in practice the card did most of the lifting. Still, there are titles where the engine favors the CPU and you’ll hit a wall sooner than you expected.

I kept wondering if the real issue is not the CPU but how the rest of the system is balanced. I tried upgrading RAM speed and a bit of overclocking, and the few percent gains were marginal. The upgrade still felt worth it for the GPU boost, but it wasn’t a magic fix.

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