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5600x paired with a 2080 super

Mishap

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Hi all, I'm thinking of upgrading from a ryzen 5 3600x and have a rtx 2080 super. My gaming monitor is a 1440 panel and was wondering if anyone has similar specs and has upgraded to the ryzen 5 5600x and seen good results or no real improvement.
 
Mishap said:
Hi all, I'm thinking of upgrading from a ryzen 5 3600x and have a rtx 2080 super. My gaming monitor is a 1440 panel and was wondering if anyone has similar specs and has upgraded to the ryzen 5 5600x and seen good results or no real improvement.
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That's really difficult to know, the 5600X is a much faster CPU for games than the 3600X, that doesn't mean you will see that difference, if your 3600X is capable of driving your 2080 Super to its full extent in the games you play then a 5600X will make 0 difference to it.

If however you're finding that in (Game X) your GPU is only running at 80% load maximum then you might be limited by the 3600X in which case the 5600X might allow your GPU to run at 99% and you'll get more FPS.
 
Going from a 3600 to 5800X with an RTX 3080 @1440p yielded hardly any gains in most games so I'd suspect with only a 2080 super it wouldn't be worth the cost to go for a 5600X atleast not right now but maybe in a year or two when rtx4000 cards are out and ryzen 5000 is going cheaper will be the time to upgrade.
 
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have to love that chart and how the plucky little £125 i5-10400f is holding its own

with anything in the 96%+ bracket there is no point upgrading untill you feel a performance decrease


tend to run on a 4-5 year rebuild cycle while changing the odd gpu talking to friends on discord this seems about the norm

the last cycle for me was the longest i5-6600 and to be honest she was still fine for 90% of the games I played
 
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It's worth noting that with that graph, it's a composite of games, and includes no frametime information whatsoever, so a higher average FPS may not be indicative of a superior overall gaming experience.
 
Zefan said:
It's worth noting that with that graph, it's a composite of games, and includes no frametime information whatsoever, so a higher average FPS may not be indicative of a superior overall gaming experience.
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Tech Power Up take "GPU limitations" in their (CPU Testing) to the most extreme, little more than 5% between a 3300X and a 10900K, its just a huge block of equal length bars, its almost as if they are deliberately trying to make slides that tell you precisely nothing at all other than how fast the GPU they used in their "CPU Test" is.

Maybe i'm getting old and cranky and "Kids these days don't know what they are doing" but..... they really don't.
 
humbug said:
Tech Power Up take "GPU limitations" in their (CPU Testing) to the most extreme, little more than 5% between a 3300X and a 10900K, its just a huge block of equal length bars, its almost as if they are deliberately trying to make slides that tell you precisely nothing at all other than how fast the GPU they used in their "CPU Test" is.

Maybe i'm getting old and cranky and "Kids these days don't know what they are doing" but..... they really don't.
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Atleast it's a better indicator than userbenchmark!

According to them the 11700k is 11% faster than the 5800X :rolleyes:
 
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