eli5 What does Bottlenecking means?

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My Graphics card is faster than my CPU like way too fast. I don’t know what that means.

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A bottleneck is a choke point, a part of a process that limits the throughput of the system. Every system has one, it’s not inherently bad, and sometimes it’s intentional.

In your case it means that your GPU is limited by how fast your CPU can provide instructions to it. If you’re happy with the performance you’re getting, you might’ve paid too much, but that’s not a problem. If you want better performance, getting an even better GPU won’t fix it, you’ll need a better CPU instead.

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