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mart1985

mart1985

mart1985

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I have the following system:

AMD R7 3700X
RTX 2070 SUPER
Giga 750W 80 Plus Gold
Giga X570 Gaming X
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB

I have got into Cod Warzone this year and have had several threads on trying to improve my FPS. I am currently playing at 1440p as the quality on 1080p sucks, but am only getting 80-90 FPS. It has been recommended I get an RTX 3080 but we all know how likely that is going to be for the foreseeable future. On this basis, my options appear to be to:

1) Wait for supply - looking like Feb/March at the earliest?
2) Overclock existing card
3) Buy a 3090

I have no knowledge of OC'ing, would it even be worth it for my current card? I have seen threads that suggest up to a 15% improvement is possible but that would only translate to say 20 FPS, where as I really want to be pushing it towards the 140/150 range.

I am aware the 3090 is going to be overkill, but is there an argument it also 'future proofs' me for the next few years? If I did go down that route, I would presumably need to upgrade my PSU but would the rest of the system be sufficient to utilise it?
 
I am stuck at 60fps 4K on CODMW, seems smooth enough to me. I guess the drops are low due to 3080 on highest settings. I would have thought 2070S is fine at 1440p so wouldn't be in any rush to join the ampere ongoing nightmare.
 
I feel like I really noticed the difference at 140 FPS at 1080p and my game seems to lag so bad at 1440p. I know the servers are crap but there seems to be a noticeable difference.
 
2070 Super is solid as a rock and will be for a long time to come - 90FPS is 100% playable. You'd be mad to upgrade at this point from that particular card.
 
I would have thought you could get those framerates with some judicious adjustments of graphics settings and light OC/Power limit tweaking for a bonus. Some of us are playing COD on older hardware than that ;). Are you using DLSS/upscaling?

+what he said^ 90 is plenty, that's the topend of what I get on a 1070 ~1440UW some eye candy is totally irrelevant in multiplayer,anyway.
 
I have seen a few people suggesting 120ish is more achievable @greatash but I have tried everything and it doesn't budge from that range for me.

I'm certainly not suggesting my current system is unplayable @Hellsmk2 @RobinGopher and normally I would just wait for stock of the 3080, but with everything that has gone on this year I am obviously using my pc a lot more and barely spent any money so the 3090 seemed feasible to look into, providing it was going to be of a long term benefit and not just a short term upgrade for Warzone.
 
If you can get an RRP 3090, it has bags of power for the future and bags of RAM also for the future but how much of that power you can unlock today with your CPU is a question you have to ask. The increase in performance between a 3080 and a 3090 is disappointing, I've not followed the question enough to to know if there's more to be had out of one in the future with some driver improvements etc. The only reason its a question to most people is because the 3080 is selling so far outside its price bracket. I wouldn't, I like my money to go further and my mortgage to be smaller, but we all have our own priorities...
 
Double check you haven't got a silly frame rate or v-sync limit set somewhere. 90 is part of the 30/60/75/90/120 limit increments that games use to prevent excess frames being rendered.
 
Your frame rate seems correct.
I'm running a 2070 (not super) and get about 80fps with everything maxed at 1440p in warzone. So your 80-90 seems correct.

I only have a 95hz monitor so not looked to push this harder.
Have you considered turning down some settings? I haven't tried but I imagine turning ray tracing and other performance hungry bits off you'd get into the 120 range which will keep you busy until feb when you can get a 3080.
I agree some things need to be kept high like the textures as it can look awful.

IMHO a 3090 is a waste. £1500 for 10% more frames than a 3080. Or £750 now and then another £750 for a 4080 in 18 months time is a much better use of money unless you are desperate.
 
Before doing anything else, may you could give disabling the SMT (hyperthreading) for 3700X a go.

Some games don't play nice with SMT (hyperthreading) and for gamers the 8 physical cores is plenty and you don't really need the SMT (hyperthreading), since the bottleneck will mainly be on the GPU side 95% of the time.

Also, try capping your max fps to same as the refresh rate of your display.
 
Thank you for the suggestions @GloriousMess and @Marine-RX179 I will play around with settings and see if any of those make a difference to the FPS.

I haven't tried turning off ray tracing so I will give that a go @hugobosslives I know I can get much higher FPS at 1080p but I just can't stand the look of the game and waiting for scenery to render when scoping in on things in the distance. Seems like that is the general consensus with the 3090 route and if it is just going to result in me needing to upgrade other components then it will be a serious outlay. Will play around with settings advised and see if that makes a difference whilst waiting on the 3080.
 
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