CPU, Motherboard and RAM upgrade but lower benchmarking score

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I have just upgraded my system and got a 3060Ti, a Ryzen 5600x, B550 Tomahawk motherboard with 16gb 3600mhz Crucial Ballistix ram.

My GPU came before everything else arrived so I put it in my old PC with an I5 3570k (not OC'ed as my old mobo broke and I had to put this spare in which didn't support it), a As Rock H77 pro4 motherboard and 16gb 1600mhz ram.

I ran some tests with 3D mark and my FPS and score almost doubled with the new GPU in.

So the new parts came and I have installed them all, enabled XMP for the RAM and did the benchmarks again and get the same FPS and a lower overall score lol.

Is this normal as the GPU is the limiting factor or should I see an increase with a better CPU and memory?
 
3dmark is very gpu intense on the gpu tests and barely uses any cpu power as your score prove. so you wont see much if any higher gpu score. as for gaming where both cpu and gpu get utilized will you see a big difference. compare the gaming fps over synthetic benches :)
 
3dmark is very gpu intense on the gpu tests and barely uses any cpu power as your score prove. so you wont see much if any higher gpu score. as for gaming where both cpu and gpu get utilized will you see a big difference. compare the gaming fps over synthetic benches :)

That's good news them i was a bit worried lol

Can you recommend any tools for that or should I just be using in-game benchmarking tools?
 
in game benchmarks is good either that or just play a game you regularly played on your old system and see if you get a nice fps boost. also did you run any games while using your 3060ti with the 3570k?
 
in game benchmarks is good either that or just play a game you regularly played on your old system and see if you get a nice fps boost. also did you run any games while using your 3060ti with the 3570k?

Yeah, i ran some most have same FPS as the new setup. RDR 2 is lower lol

What phsyics score are you getting on 3dmark?
I'm surprised you would see a lower score, given the big CPU upgrade.

I must have been mistaken regardring my scores as i've looked back and they are better especially the physics scores.

Regarding the framerates being the same as my old setup in games i guess it must be that the 3570K as old as it was still wasn't bottlenecking this new GPU lol.
 
it's possible that you wasn't getting much bottlenecking. but you should be getting a little higher fps with the 5600x. and not lower over the 3570k.
 
If your gaming at 4K then the CPU generally makes little difference which was why I recommended saving some cash getting a cheap 3600 then moving to higher core count V-cache CPU a few years down the line when prices are cheap.

At 1440p the 3600 performs about the same as a 5600X with a mid range card like the 3060ti. Even with my 3080 @1440p I noticed very little difference when going from a 3600 to the 5800X I have now so it could be worth saving some cash then dropping in a higher core count 3D V-cache zen 3 a couple of years from now.
 
If your gaming at 4K then the CPU generally makes little difference which was why I recommended saving some cash getting a cheap 3600 then moving to higher core count V-cache CPU a few years down the line when prices are cheap.

I was going to do what you suggested but my theory was to get a new CPU to last me 5 years and only upgrade the GPU in between to save buying both again. Do you think the 3600 would do that? if so I'll send this back and save some cash lol
 
I was going to do what you suggested but my theory was to get a new CPU to last me 5 years and only upgrade the GPU in between to save buying both again. Do you think the 3600 would do that? if so I'll send this back and save some cash lol
you never know what's going to happen in the future but if a 3600 starts to struggle the 5600X won't be far behind but that said now that you have the CPU I wouldn't bother messing about changing it.
 
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