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Resolution and minimum framerates

Messsed about the graphics settings in COD Cold War. Put everything to medium and instantly noticed the game run buttery smoooth at 90 FPS. Set Texture and Model to High and sits at 85ish FPS now.... much better than before :) I do miss playing at High/Ultra at 1440p on my old monitor though, medium does look quite a bit worse than what I used to play at but the trade off is this HUGE curved monitor
 
Had a look at some benchmarks for the 3070 Ti and its around 30% faster than the 1080Ti. I could sell my 1080 Ti and recoup some of the inflated cost of that 3070 Ti
 
FYI for a smooth experience you want your FPS to be at least as high as your monitors refresh rate. My Acer x34a 3440x1440 Ultrawide runs at 100Hz so I keep my FPS at over 100. My previous build had a 1080ti which up until recently could manage 100fps average in most games with Ultra graphics settings and G-Sync would smooth out any odd dips below 100fps. Newer games however have forced me to upgrade my CPU & GPU so I can keep playing with Ultra graphics settings and keep the monitor fed with at least 100fps at all times.

Monitor choice really defines the rest of your build.
 
Thanks for that, it explains why games don't look at "smooth" on this new monitor compared to the Dell 27" GSYNC I had. That's because games were running a well over 120FPS but now dip to as low as 60 at times :/

I'm tempted to get a 3090 and be done with it. Will last me at least 5 years for sure so it will pay for itself over time.

What I don't understand is benchmarks like this 5800X CPU review:

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Look at the different in FPS from the CPUs... my 4790K is really old so would be low on that chart right? So surely if I upgraded the CPU to a 5800X I'd get aorund a 25 FPS increase in games?
 
elrasho said:
Thanks for that, it explains why games don't look at "smooth" on this new monitor compared to the Dell 27" GSYNC I had. That's because games were running a well over 120FPS but now dip to as low as 60 at times :/

I'm tempted to get a 3090 and be done with it. Will last me at least 5 years for sure so it will pay for itself over time.

What I don't understand is benchmarks like this 5800X CPU review:

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Look at the different in FPS from the CPUs... my 4790K is really old so would be low on that chart right? So surely if I upgraded the CPU to a 5800X I'd get aorund a 25 FPS increase in games?
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Funnily enough RDR2 was one of the games that made me realize my 7700k/1080ti setup was getting tired. CPU alone will/could give a small performance gain but you are probably GPU bottlenecked at the minute which is perfectly fine because that's how a system should be (GPU bottlenecked rather than CPU bottlenecked) so it's easy to assume that you can just upgrade GPU and everything will be ok but it won't, you need to keep pairing CPUs with GPUs in order to get the best of out of the GPU. If you just got a 3090 without upgrading your CPU then you would be heavily CPU bottlenecked which is a bad thing because you won't get the most out of your GPU and you'll have an overall more choppy experience being CPU bound imo.
 
It's really both, in your case the CPU & RAM will hold you back a lot particularly in a title like COD:CW. A 5800X will absolutely be massive for 'smoothness' due to tighter memory & their huge cache, nevermind all the extra cores & frequency. The 1080 Ti is still quite solid, tho Nvidia GPUs also get CPU Bottlenecked due to drivers, I'd wait before upgrading that considering the situation currently.
 
Honestly it's hard to tell unless you try it. You are in a tricky situation, you need a better GPU to drive that monitor for sure but a better GPU wouldn't be a great pairing with your current CPU. I was in the same position recently (although not to the same extent), I needed a better GPU but knew my CPU (7700k) wouldn't be the best pairing for a top end 30xx series GPU so I just bit the bullet in the end and upgraded both. I did however pair the 3090 with the 7700k just for fun first so I could directly compare the following (albeit only in 3DMark):

7700k + 1080ti
7700k + 3090
11900k + 3090

I'll post those comparisons up here shortly so you can see how much FPS was gained in the CPU tests and Graphics tests, the gains you'll see from either CPU or GPU upgrades will depend on how CPU or GPU intensive a particular game is.

Unfortunately I didn't do the 11700k + 1080ti test as it was pointless for me at the time because I'd already bought the new CPU.
 
RipGroove said:
Honestly it's hard to tell unless you try it. You are in a tricky situation, you need a better GPU to drive that monitor for sure but a better GPU wouldn't be a great pairing with your current CPU. I was in the same position recently (although not to the same extent), I needed a better GPU but knew my CPU (7700k) wouldn't be the best pairing for a top end 30xx series GPU so I just bit the bullet in the end and upgraded both. I did however pair the 3090 with the 7700k just for fun first so I could directly compare the following (albeit only in 3DMark):

7700k + 1080ti
7700k + 3090
11900k + 3090

I'll post those comparisons up here shortly so you can see how much FPS was gained in the CPU tests and Graphics tests, the gains you'll see from either CPU or GPU upgrades will depend on how CPU or GPU intensive a particular game is.

Unfortunately I didn't do the 11700k + 1080ti test as it was pointless for me at the time because I'd already bought the new CPU.
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Wow thanks that would be great. I'm leaning towards getting a 5800X with a decent X570 mobo and 16GB of 3600Mhz DDR4 RAM.

Going to get a new case too with better airflow like those Corsair 400D Airflow ones
 
 
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