I´m testing my setups limits in 1440p on every game i have bought. You can call me worst gamer ever, only game i have play through is Tomb Raider (2013).
Parts 1-3 with 1060 3gb GPU with i7-2600K : Wery stuttery gameplay and videos. Parts 4-21 with 3060 12gb GPU with i7-2600K : Less stuttery videos. Next season with old 3060 GPU but all the rest is new PC
Old setup: Intel core i7-2600K @4.0GHz Asus P8Z77-V LX 16GB DDR3 Asus rtx 3060 oc 12gb 32" samsung 1440p 144Hz C32JG52
New setup: Lian Li LANCOOL 205 Mesh C Rysen 5 7600X Western Digital 1TB WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe, M.2 2280, PCIe 4 Cooler Master 850W MWE Gold be quiet! Pure Rock 2 Black MSI MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI Corsair 32GB Vengeance, DDR5 6000MHz Asus GeForce RTX 3060 DUAL - OC Edition V2 (LHR) 12GB GDDR6 32" samsung 1440p 144Hz C32JG52
Theres allways some bottlenecks eighter cpu or gpu, in battlefields theres alot of cpu bottlenecking. Most of games runs quite good 60+ fps in 1440p medium/high settings. Overall this cpu still runs deacent and pc gains power from that gpu.
Yes indeed i like this combo with 3060, but ti or 3070 or greater should be better for 1440p gaming. 2600k still has power enough for most of the games.