If he bought a 3090 then money's not an issue for him
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9900ks good enough for a 3090?
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If he bought a 3090 then money's not an issue for him
Indeed, I'm sure he has the money.
And throwing money away is just silly.
lol thanks for all the replies guys,
I did want to add, that I've been doing more and more 3d rendering these days, (it's something I've done for years) and I feel like I could probably gain a lot more performance here if I went with many more cores? I imagine this will make zero difference to gaming, but it's the 3d rendering where I'm struggling..
I assume AMD is the way to go, if I wanted something with more cores?
I did want to add, that I've been doing more and more 3d rendering these days, (it's something I've done for years) and I feel like I could probably gain a lot more performance here if I went with many more cores? I imagine this will make zero difference to gaming, but it's the 3d rendering where I'm struggling..
I assume AMD is the way to go, if I wanted something with more cores?
AMD is the only way to go. Thread-ripper might be worth considering.
Looking at the 5950x potentially,
Don't the AMD chips require much faster memory, or does it not make much of a difference?
The 5950X is an incredible fast chip. Memory speed helps and you can gain a lot of performance in many workloads. The 5950X is made from the top few percent of Ryzen cores and can some the infinity fabric 1-1 with the memory at some pretty insane speeds.
Bit late in the game now for a 5950X, with the 12900k coming around in a few months. It's likely to be faster and cheaper across the board.
The 12900K will be slower and more expensive. When running the small cores Intel’s power use might look slightly less embarrassing.
Meh, you will easily be able to turn off the smaller cores in the BIOS if necessary on Alder Lake CPUs.
Still, Zen 4 seems to be the one to wait for, and the AM5 platform is more likely to be more upgradable.
Only reason to go with Alderlake, is if you are building a new PC in early 2022 and don't want to wait, or would like to keep using DDR4 RAM (for some motherboards), which doesn't seem to be an option with Zen 4.
Still, Zen 4 seems to be the one to wait for, and the AM5 platform is more likely to be more upgradable.
Only reason to go with Alderlake, is if you are building a new PC in early 2022 and don't want to wait, or would like to keep using DDR4 RAM (for some motherboards), which doesn't seem to be an option with Zen 4.
To be quite honest I am considering switching to Alder Lake myself.
there are several reason.
Even though I liked my 3950x, I've had lots of issues with the 5950x, issues with x570 boards and system instability.
I ended up having to run my RAM at stock to get rid of most system instability issues with the 5950x and X570 continues to have issues with USB.
I never had problems with my boards, ports, ram or stability when I was with Intel. Even if I lost a little performance in games, at this point I value not having issues so much more than 5% performance
I have a 3090 and an Intel 9900KS, I mostly game at 4k.
In terms of getting the most out of my GPU, would I likely gain any performance if I upgraded my CPU? or when running at 4k, are things so highly biased towards the GPU that the CPU won't make much difference?
Just want to make sure I'm getting the most out of my 3090.
Cheers,
You're not going to see any real performance gains. Upgrading the CPU.
Indeed, 6fps gain, not even at lowest framerates is a nonsense gain.
I have a 3090 and an Intel 9900KS, I mostly game at 4k.
In terms of getting the most out of my GPU, would I likely gain any performance if I upgraded my CPU? or when running at 4k, are things so highly biased towards the GPU that the CPU won't make much difference?
Just want to make sure I'm getting the most out of my 3090.
Cheers,
You won’t be getting the most out graphics card.
The OP would be getting the most out his 3090 with his CPU for 4k gaming.
Playing RDR2 at 70fps or 76fps makes no difference and does not justify a hefty mobo, cpu and ram upgrade.
Yeah the OP should have saved this money and bought a 6800XT or 3080 instead. No point in paying a hefty premium for anything faster unless you have a Zen3 system.
Actually there is no difference between Zen2 and zen3 at 4k with a RTX3090 and the 9900K beats zen2 so again would be no difference.
Actually there is no difference between Zen2 and zen3 at 4k with a RTX3090 and the 9900K beats zen2 so again would be no difference.
I think you posted the wrong slide. Seems to be a difference. Link?