i think it depends on the game title, some games are more dependant on core clock freq, some on number of cores, or even HT. some games are also not that optimized.

there was a youtube video posted by forumer earlier about i5 bottlenecking 1070 in 144hz. i suppose it can be more apparent if >60fps on 1080p. but more tests are needed because that gpu utilization he showed could be just that the game that was tested on wasnt too demanding for the 1070 which has better architecure than 970. a better test would be comparing i7 with i5 on the same GPU.

i dont think 3DMark matters as much as actual game benchmarks.

This post has been edited by svfn: Jul 17 2016, 06:14 PM