AM4 Gaming Issues

[Dirk Diggler]

I'm interested in upgrading my 2700x specifically to fix issues that I experience in games where the CPU holds the GPU back. AC:Odyssey is one title that really seems to suffer with this, and also Far Cry 4 & 5. Is it likely that the improvements with Zen 2 can remedy this? Is the IPC improvement enough, or is it purely single core clock speed that's the problem? If so then I'm not seeing a massive improvement there according to the figures being banded about.

I'm concerned that I'll end up with very little improvement after the upgrade, and it's getting a little bit frustrating as Intel just feels totally dead end and flawed right now.

Resolution is 1440p and target frame rate is 100-144Hz.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Honestly I don't know if it will be worthwhile, at least not at launch prices. I suspect at best you'd get the same performance in gaming as a 9900k which at 1440p even with a 1080ti is only a few % higher than a 2700x

Is that high refresh improvements? The issue I see is that there is room left in the GPU tank but it can't be utilised because the CPU is holding it back. I think what you are describing is extra FPS squeezed out when the GPU is already at 99% load - apologies if that's not what you meant.

Right now i would wait to see solid Zen2 benchmarks, i think we are about to see something quite special.

Yea, it's early. I'm really interested in user benchmarks after release as there are various scenarios that reviewer benchmarks just don't seem to take into account.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

@MasterOC what FPS are you aiming for with your res?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

A 2700x bottlenecks current GPU??

Am sure my 1080ti isn't held back by the 1600 I have

What resolution are you gaming at?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

1440P on my desktop but that's for cities skylines, anything else like GTA, Rage 2, FarCry 5 any game that supports controller I use the TV so 4k.

That's why you aren't seeing any bottleneck, it'll happen at 1440 and below when above 60fps.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

@DarrenM343 my target is 100 FPS and I'll lower settings to get that as I prefer smoothness over eye candy. 70 FPS is too low because it'll lead to dips below which breaks the immersion for me.