i am planning a 1440p gaming setup would a AMD Ryzen 5 9600X bottleneck my 9070 XT 16 GB

Fine combo. Bottleneck is often poorly used term.

Yee, it actually really depends what you're running in terms of software.

Forget you have ever heard the word bottleneck.

Bottleneck? Absolutely not. Will you still be CPU-limited sometimes? Possibly, depends on the games you play, or if your editing software needs a lot of cores. But it's an excellent CPU/GPU pair for gaming imo. Evaluate how serious you are about YouTube and don't overspend on stuff you don't really need, but it should be great still if you aren't like doing it as a career and just edit occasionally.

No

That’s what I’m using. 9600x, 32gb DDR5, and a 9070xt OC (XFX Mercury). I use a 32” Alienware 240hz ultrawide 1440p and so far it’s been great. I cool it with a Dark Rock Pro on an open air chassis. So far it’s been a perfect match.

It is good for AAA games. For competitive/multiplayer games, you should invest more on CPU

At 1440p you'll be absolutely fine. Higher resolution leans harder on the gpu than the CPU.

You are fine.

No! A 7600x will work well with a 9070xt for 1440p gaming.

everything bottlenecks and has a limit .. a 9070xt will generally have excellent 1440 performance on a 5600 am4 .. the buttery smoothness goes up from there .. the idea that a 'bottleneck' means it wont work is mostly a myth cooked up by people trying to justify all the money they spent lol ..

Completely fine in almost all scenarios

Perfect for a 1440p 140 Hz-180 Hz monitor.

I use 9600x with 5070ti. No issues here