2600x bottleneck 3070ti for 1440p?

[Dahakaa]

I was just wondering if the 2600x will bottleneck the 3070ti in new games such as far cry 6 and battlefield 2042 etc.

Would it be worth getting a 5600x now? if so what increase and fps can be expected

[RONOTHAN##]

Probably, but depending on your motherboard I'd wait to upgrade. If you have a B350 board, wait till next generation, we're super close to it anyway so you might as well get the faster chip in a few months. If you have a board that supports the 5600X and decent RAM speeds to pair with it, you might as well. I'd guess there'd be about a 5-10% FPS increase going from the 2600X to the 5600X

[MingLee420]

17 minutes ago, Dahakaa said:

I was just wondering if the 2600x will bottleneck the 3070ti in new games such as far cry 6 and battlefield 2042 etc.

Would it be worth getting a 5600x now? if so what increase and fps can be expected

you would only see a 2-25 percent difference at 1440p and the biggest diff is csgo with 100 fps more but thats about it

[Dahakaa]

3 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Probably, but depending on your motherboard I'd wait to upgrade. If you have a B350 board, wait till next generation, we're super close to it anyway so you might as well get the faster chip in a few months. If you have a board that supports the 5600X and decent RAM speeds to pair with it, you might as well. I'd guess there'd be about a 5-10% FPS increase going from the 2600X to the 5600X

I have an updated B450 Mobo paired with 2x8GB 3200mhz ram with the latest BIOS so 5600x would slot right. Id like to play games like bf2042 on possibly 100fps+ even if that means turning down settings to low/medium but if the difference is so small i guess its not really worth it.

[YoungBlade]

As usual, Hardware Unboxed has an extensive benchmark video that should give you some insight on how much of an improvement you can see:

 

[RONOTHAN##]

2 minutes ago, Dahakaa said:

I have an updated B450 Mobo paired with 2x8GB 3200mhz ram with the latest BIOS so 5600x would slot right. Id like to play games like bf2042 on possibly 100fps+ even if that means turning down settings to low/medium but if the difference is so small i guess its not really worth it.

To be fair, this will depend on the game. BF2042 isn't out yet, so we don't know how CPU or GPU bound it is. It could be very CPU bound and a 5600X could give a 20% improvement, or it could be as optimized as Doom Eternal and you can get like a 3-5% improvement. Either way, wait until the game is out, or at least until black friday. You might be able to score a 5600X for cheap, or you can do a full platform upgrade and go to either Alder Lake or Ryzen 6000, since both are rumored to launch around the end of the year.

[SirWendall]

23 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

To be fair, this will depend on the game. BF2042 isn't out yet, so we don't know how CPU or GPU bound it is. It could be very CPU bound and a 5600X could give a 20% improvement, or it could be as optimized as Doom Eternal and you can get like a 3-5% improvement. Either way, wait until the game is out, or at least until black friday. You might be able to score a 5600X for cheap, or you can do a full platform upgrade and go to either Alder Lake or Ryzen 6000, since both are rumored to launch around the end of the year.

I personally have been getting decent frames on BF2042 but I haven't got to try FC6 yet. Obviously its in beta still for BF2042, but from what I played it was decent. For the same price as you'd spend getting a 5600x, you could wait and see what 6XXX series has to offer.