Upgrading from 4790k - Gaming

[Anchorist]

Budget (including currency): 850USD

Country: Poland

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: AC Odyssey, Cyberpunk 2077

 

Running on 2080ti, 3440x1440 resolution, games on SSD, 16GB ram 1600Mhz (2x8)

 

Is it worth upgrading from i7 4790k (OC at 4.8Ghz) to ryzen 5 5600x solely in terms of FPS in games? (listed above)?

 

My current problem is:

Cyberpunk 2077, ultra, rtx on

CPU around 75% usage to 96%

GPU sits still on 92%

City: 40 - 55 fps / Interior (Afterlife Club): 58 - 64

 

Seems like GPU is bottlenecking (resolution duh!) but I've got confirmation that i5-10600k with 2060S performs arounds 72fps in City, which totally rendered me puzzled about what to upgrade.

 

[Downkey]

8 minutes ago, Anchorist said:

Budget (including currency): 850USD

Country: Poland

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: AC Odyssey, Cyberpunk 2077

 

Running on 2080ti, 3440x1440 resolution, games on SSD, 16GB ram 1600Mhz (2x8)

 

Is it worth upgrading from i7 4790k (OC at 4.8Ghz) to ryzen 5 5600x solely in terms of FPS in games? (listed above)?

 

My current problem is:

Cyberpunk 2077, ultra, rtx on

CPU around 75% usage to 96%

GPU sits still on 92%

City: 40 - 55 fps / Interior (Afterlife Club): 58 - 64

 

Seems like GPU is bottlenecking (resolution duh!) but I've got confirmation that i5-10600k with 2060S performs arounds 72fps in City, which totally rendered me puzzled about what to upgrade.

 

Yeah, I’d go with a 5600x. Just save the rest of your money for a better GPU later down the line 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$300.00
Motherboard	MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard	$139.99 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$81.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$521.98
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-13 19:03 EST-0500

 

[Anchorist]

7 hours ago, Downkey said:

Yeah, I’d go with a 5600x. Just save the rest of your money for a better GPU later down the line 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$300.00
Motherboard	MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard	$139.99 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$81.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$521.98
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-13 19:03 EST-0500

 

Will  this upgrade actually raise FPS? Clocks on that CPU are lower than what I have while having + 2 cores

 

B550 or X570? I was more into Aorus Elite v2 (want that pcie 4)

G.Skill or Crucial Ballistix?

[Nena Trinity]

3 hours ago, Anchorist said:

Will  this upgrade actually raise FPS? Clocks on that CPU are lower than what I have while having + 2 cores

 

B550 or X570? I was more into Aorus Elite v2 (want that pcie 4)

G.Skill or Crucial Ballistix?

Instructions Per Clock have gone up over the years so yeah it should, how ever there is a bug in Cyberpunk 2077 currently but there is a user fix to resolve the issue over at reddit and Youtube... TLDR of the bug the devs are terrible!

[Anchorist]

Upgraded from 4790k to ryzen 5 5600x, tested in AC Odyssey and Cyberpunk 2077, no FPS gain, minor gains in common Windows tasks such as unzipping files. Is that what's supposed to be?

[derdrave]

Hi Anchorist,

 

I'm having the same 4790k and I consider to go with a 5600X for better FPS.. My Graphics is a 1070 right now.

I wonder if the community-bugfix @Nena Trinity talked about might change FPS as I was also reading on some german tech-sites and another good english one..

 

For this english article you can search for "Cyberpunk 2077 Bug Bulldozes AMD Ryzen: Here's a Fix, Tested".

 

I would like to know if this fix comes with better fps.

 

 

best regards

 

 

btw: in one of his videos (cyberpunk on his super awesome tv) linus said, that mixing rtx and dlss is not good, but cyberpunk defaults to this options... if I remeber correctly..

[Anchorist]

Hi, that depends on what resolution you game on, on full HD upgrading CPU would boost FPS, but in 4k - 4790k is sufficient.

 

Watch this (ignore dumb thumbnail, guy explains very well the connection between resolution and CPU/GPU)

 

 

I've applied this fix, nothing changed (but I saw that before fix only few cores were used, after fix all cores used, but nothing in terms of FPS changed)

 

If you're gaming >1080p, I'd highly recommend buying 3070 or even better wait for 3070TI

If you're gaming on 1080p then 5600x might be good choice.