i7 5820K @ 4.5GHz Bottleneck 3080?

[L15T3R]

Current Setup:
I7 5820K @ 4.5GHz / Triple Rad Custom Loop
Corsair HX1200i / Corsair 450D Case
16GB Vengeance DDR4 3000MHz
Asus X99-E
MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X

Managed to get pretty low in the queue for a 3080 MSI Gaming but after doing a bit of reading im starting to think i might be bottlenecked by my CPU. Been solid for the past 4 years.

I game at 1440p 144hz that's the main reason im going for the 3080 as my 1070 is struggling to hit 144fps in some of the newer titles.

Any thoughts? Should i think about an upgrade in the near future or will i be fine for another while?

 

[L15T3R]

I haven't been looking seriously at AMD but with all the new offerings i might wait out see what Zen 3 is like and make a decision then.

Be nice to have that extra core count for streaming and video rendering aswell.

 

[L15T3R]

Thanks! Im looking at the 5900X and it looks like it's perfect for what i do, if im good for 1440p then i might wait until the new year and then maybe just go fot it. Should be pretty future proof as well considering the socket and stuff.

You don't need the new card to see what your CPU is capable of. Just turn the res right down and see how high it can go.

Okay i will give that a go and see what im coming out at. Thanks!

 

[L15T3R]

You don't need the new card to see what your CPU is capable of. Just turn the res right down and see how high it can go.

This is good advice. If you use the lowest possible video card settings you can for a game it will mean the video card can spit out some arbitrarily high frame rate and shift the bottleneck onto the CPU and that'll tell you how much the CPU will max out on, with any specific game. If you do this and you get say 100fps in a modern game and you want 144 then no GPU upgrade will help, you'll need a faster CPU.

Just tried this with modern warfare and im getting 160FPS with res at 720p (any less i couldn't read the FPS counter or text) so im assuming i should be able to hit that max if the GPU is capable? Seems i should be okay for a while.

Thanks for the info everyone seems i can use this on some other games i play and see what my expected FPS before the card arrives!

Not really as AM4 is a dead platform with AM5 round the corner.

Started looking into this so AM5 might be the one to wait for considering they will use it for the next 3/4 realeases if i can hold out with my current CPU.