will my i7 7700k bottleneck new graphics cards ?
20 minutes ago, DahPython said:I play a lot of games. I do play like League of Legends and CS:GO but I also sometimes play the AAA multiplayer and single player games. You are saying to worry about upgrading my cpu first then upgrade graphics card later? will the performance boost be better from upgrading my cpu to a current gen or a 40 series card.
Yes, 100%. Its actually ridiculous and I've been annoying that major outlets like LTT @LinusTech haven't covered it yet.
The rule I've followed is anyone with a GTX 1070ti or higher with an equivalent CPU or even slightly newer (anything <Ryzen 3000 or Intel 10th gen) would substantially benefit from a CPU upgrade to Ryzen 7000 or Intel 13th gen and just keep their old GPU, especially if they play those sorts of games.
You'd be surprised how bottlenecking most CPUs are on even a couple generation's old mid-upper-flagship-halo tier cards on especially these types of games. Multiplayer/MMO games being specifically what I'm referring to, not the suite of 12 games that every major outlet uses to academically benchmark games, which I doubt people are spending most their time playing in 2023. Most games people actually play are poorly optimized decade old games that substantially benefit from the higher IPC/frequency/cache of the 5800x3D, Ryzen 7000 (with its higher L2 cache), Ryzen 7000x3D, and Intel 13th generation.
Intel 13th generation is sort of sleeper. If you look at the generational differences, they had a 1.5x upgrade in cache from 10th gen (11th gen doesn't count), 12th gen, then to 13th gen. Something like the 10900k went from 22.5MB of L2+L3 cache to the 12900k's 44MB of L2+L3, to the 13900k's 68MB of L2+L3 (the 1.5x wasn't an exaggeration), on top of architectural and lithography improvements.
My buddy went from a R7 2700 and 2070S to a R5 7600 and it doubled his framerate in even a game like Hogwarts, which is sort of an exception to the rule of CPU bottlenecks being an RPG, but it translates similarly to any other CPU limiting titles, MMO/multiplayer games being apart of such. Its something I didn't notice till I went from a 4790k to 3950x to 5800x3D.
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