Should I upgrade from 2600 to 56/7/800x ?

[MichaelW]

Hi all

Current setup:
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 + Noctua NH-D15
ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac
Kingston HyperX Fury 16 GB (2 x 8 GB)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 FE Video Card
Seasonic Focus Plus 1000W

I play RTS games (total war series) and Warzone 2 on a 1440p monitor with max refresh rate of 170Hz.

I’m getting about 80Hz on warzone 2 with graphics turned low, and I’d like to know if that can be improved with a modest upgrade to the cpu. I’m looking at the 5000 series, which are being heavily discounted at the moment, but not sure where the sweet spot would be.

Any advice on where my money is best spent?
Thanks
Michael

 

[mickyflinn]

The best cpu you can get for gaming is the 5800x3d , the 5600 is budget king at £140 so depends what you want to spend.

5700x 8 core is another decent option and all will need a bios update if on an older bios.

 

[MichaelW]

Thank you. I’m open to spending a decent amount if it translates to FPS, but I did wonder if I’m close to a GPU rather than CPU bottleneck with this system, in which case I guess 5600 is best (If that is even worth it?)

 

[Orcvader]

At 1440p your 3080 should not have any major issues. Just bare in mind Warzone 2 is still relatively new and you're not the only one who has noticed poor frame rate regardless if the system is high or low end. Have you tried setting the spot cache setting to high/ultra? Having this setting on low actually lowers performance.

As for CPU, if money is no limit, 5800X3D is the one to go for.

 

[Armageus]

Any 5xxx should give you a decent jump as there were big IPC gains and the 5xxx series are clocked higher.
Even a 5600 should give you around 50% more performance in both single and multithreaded situations.

I'd argue that your CPU might be bottlenecking your 3080 to some degree, so a CPU upgrade should release some extra performance.

If you are looking to upgrade your GPU as well relatively soon (although you are probably looking at £1000+ for something with a decent upgrade from a 3080), then the 5800X3D maybe makes sense, as it's still on par with the latest AMD and Intel chips in terms of gaming performance)