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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If a few people walked somewhere together the faster people would be held back by going at the pace of the slowest person.

Maybe they could get there twice as fast if that one slow person was swapped for someone faster.

Your graphics card isn’t able to run as fast as it possibly can because it’s waiting on your CPU to catch up all the time.

It’s called bottlenecking because the neck of a bottle does the same thing and prevents all the liquid from coming out at once compared to dumping out a cup of water.

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