How much of a performance increase will I see?.....

azazl187 · 4 May 2019 at 08:51

Hey all. Just looking for a little advice from the PC crowd running the latest hardware and of course the knowledge of those who are not.

I currently have an i7 2600k OCed to 4.5ghz, 16gb of 2600mhz ram, Z68A-GD80 (G3) Mobo with a Strix 1080ti gpu OCed to 2050mhz stable.

I'd like to upgrade to an i9 9900k that I'd like to hit 5ghz on with 32gb of 3200 C16 trident z ram running on an Asus Hero XI mobo and I will keep the 1080ti as I don't think this gen is worth the upgrade.

I run my system though a 4k 40 inch monitor.

With all this taken into account what am I likely to see in regards to performance increase in games such as the Witcher 3 for example that I currently see between 50-60 fps in, with all settings on max apart from AA which is disabled. I disable AA in most games as I don't think the performance vs image quality is worth it.

Let me know what you lot think.

Danny75 · 4 May 2019 at 09:13

Maybe 2-4 average fps more, going by 2600K v 9900K Witcher 3 @ 4K benchmarks.

Finners · 4 May 2019 at 09:38

Worth having MSI afterburner running whilst you game and look at GPU usage. If it's pegged at 99% then upgrading your CPU won't won't gain you anything.

Plec · 4 May 2019 at 09:42

Danny75 said:
Maybe 2-4 average fps more, going by 2600K v 9900K Witcher 3 @ 4K benchmarks.

Yep, at 4K you're heavily GPU bound. Gaming at such high resolution the CPU has diminishing returns even when upgrading from an aging sandybridge (epic CPU) than if you were gaming at 1080p or even 1440p.

Had you been gaming at a lower res your expected FPS jumps would be satisfyingly higher.

azazl187 · 4 May 2019 at 10:26

Thanks all. Most amazing games that I play peg the GPU at 99% but there are some older titles that don't. I'd like to get into vr at some point as well. Can you see an advantage in regards to vr?

drakulton · 4 May 2019 at 10:35

azazl187 said:
Thanks all. Most amazing games that I play peg the GPU at 99% but there are some older titles that don't. I'd like to get into vr at some point as well. Can you see an advantage in regards to vr?

VR is also very heavily GPU intensive, so you probably won't see much difference in that either.

Poneros · 4 May 2019 at 12:16

For Witcher 3 and the like the biggest improvement would be another 1080ti. Especially if you decide to mod/ini tweak it.

azazl187 · 5 May 2019 at 07:55

So you lot are saying don't do it right?

azazl187 · 5 May 2019 at 08:44

I will say that AC Origins does push my CPU to 100% usage at 4k so I might see an improvement there right?

StarShock · 5 May 2019 at 09:12

azazl187 said:
I will say that AC Origins does push my CPU to 100% usage at 4k so I might see an improvement there right?

Yes, though likely not a huge bump in the average frame rate, the biggest improvements you'll likely see is consistency. The increased core and thread count should reduse any dips in the frame rate.
More and more games are using the extra cores that cpus have now so going forward you'll likely have a better time with a newer cpu, but (specially at 4k) it's not going to take a good experience and make it better, it will just reduce the hand full of bad experiences you'd see.

For me I would probably hold off a few weeks and see what comes out of computex if the ryzen 3000 series is as good as some of the rumours suggest we might see another shake up in the market and you may even get a cpu that can match the 9900k for a bunch less money