B550 vs x570

[johns]

Budget (including currency): 900 us

Country: us

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: gaming at 7650x1440p

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): current build is a 2700x gigabyte b450 itx motherboard seasonic 850psu asus stryx 1080 8gb. I want to upgrade my build to play at hight res and higher frame rate to utilise my higher refrsh rate monitors. If i was going to upgrade jist go 3080 or 6800xt and jist leave rest of build. Or try to upgrade to lile 5600x with b550 and a 3070? Which of the 2 options would give better over all preformace?

 

[Quackers101]

you might get more ports and more PCIe 4 features with 570 making it a bit more expensive, but often not needed.

While I think most of the 550 are newer so they and 570 will likely get future support, don't know for how long.

if on a budget, it's nothing wrong to go with a cheaper 550 board and if it's a good board overall. (check reviews or threads)

[johns]

If i wanted to upgrade from the 2700x and a gigabyte b450 itx whould a 5600x or a 5800x and a b550 be a massive gaming upgrade considering either a 3070 or 3080 upgrade? Or do we thnk geting a 3080 upgrade make most sense

[Quackers101]

going from 2000 series to 5000 series would be a jump, 5000 series is enough to handle the future cards with some added benefits of the cores and hardware encoding?

so the higher end 3000 GPUs would fit in nicely and having the nvidia features like DLSS etc, while AMD isn't quite there unless they launch their own features, 6800 is kinda inbetween 3070/3080 for now, if you find it close to the 3070 price or any new GPU at all.

[Luxis]

2 minutes ago, johns said:

If i wanted to upgrade from the 2700x and a gigabyte b450 itx whould a 5600x or a 5800x and a b550 be a massive gaming upgrade considering either a 3070 or 3080 upgrade? Or do we thnk geting a 3080 upgrade make most sense

Getting a 3080 is a much more sensible option if you want higher frames at higher resolutions since most modern mid-range CPUs (including the 2700X) already have plenty of performance for gaming.

The only real gains from getting an X570 and a 5000 series CPU, in this case, is "future-proofing" a bit more, but that would leave your 1080 lagging behind.

[Jurrunio]

Even with a RTX 3090, you wont be able to take advantage of the high refresh rate support in many large titles at resolutions this high (only 1 monitor maybe, but not 2). Indeed as you've figured out, Zen+ is also no good at high frame rates, but in this case your GPU problem is way more significant and a 3080 that you're targeting still isnt enough.

[Quackers101]

yeah the higher resolution, more GPU heavy.

although some more CPU heavy games might push that 2700x cpu more and ofc the GPU at that res and if at highest setting.

so with that res, more GPU demand*

[thepoorgamer]

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