CPU upgrade or wait?

[Telecaster]

So I'm pretty happy with the 4790T, single core performance is @ 3.9ghz, and a multitude of clocks over all the cores depending on how many it uses, synthetics running all 8 threads drops it to 2.7ghz across all 8.

Question is whether it's costing me any gaming performance? I have beat some benchmark scores with the same GPU clocked similar to others but with whom are running a clocked 5960X(!) and yet some benchmarks clearly show a bottleneck.

I'm unsure how to correlate whether or not the CPU is a bottleneck in day-to-day gaming

Do any of the options make it worthwhile to swap? Either utilizing a full fat Haswell 4790K or swapping to Skylake, I'm not sure I'd go with a 6700k, maybe one of the 6400 i5s OC'd via the bclk.

Only reason I ask is that if the Pascal Titan turns out to be a decent card then I'm likely to go for one, but not if the CPU will bottleneck it.

 

[Telecaster]

I had a 4690k previously, but I wanted one of the low power CPUs for noise reasons.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=29323743

This was my conclusion Vs the 4690k, so you can understand my reluctance to think an upgrade is worth it, especially given I've beaten benchmark results with people using clocked 5960Xs and all manner of stuff.

 

[Telecaster]

But is the 4790k any sort of worthwhile upgrade from what I've got?

 

[Telecaster]

Which games do you play?

Most recently, Dying Light.