Cities Skylines: would the extra cores help?

[Zarax]

Hello,

I know I might be better off in their forum but the collective knowledge here is usually of better quality.
It's one of the few games I care about in choosing a CPU and AFAIK it's a very CPU intensive one but benchmarks are hard to come by.

Would a 5900X offer significant benefits over a 5800X in your opinion?

Thank you very much!

 

[scubes]

Not much I'd say but a pro on here might correct me .

 

[alec]

As far as I know Skyline is limited by one thread. So you want the fastest possible single core speed. In which 5800X is almost same as 5900X
haven't seen benchmarks, but potentially it should also be sensitive to RAM latency. Perhaps extra money should be spent there

 

[Poneros]

Unfortunately no, it's more an issue with the software itself. So a 5900X would absolutely not do anything in the game over a 5800X.

 

[Zarax]

Thank you, for some reason I thought it was sensitive to more cores... Guess I'm confusing it with AOTS.

 

[BUDFORCE]

5800x would most likely be better as they tend to get a better set of cores so you can overclock marginally better.

But in real terms probably no notable difference, the 5800x is cheaper and IMO the better generally for gaming.

Cities Skylines uses lots of memory, I have a save use nearly 40gb of RAM and all of my 8gb of VRAM.

To be honest, it'll still run pretty crap regardless of how good your machine is, but you might get 15 FPS instead of 5.....