GPU Upgrade or GPU and CPU?!

[jan_flying]

Budget (including currency): 600€

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: PUBG, GTA 6 (lol)

 

Current build

Case: be quiet! Pure Base 500DX

PSU: 750 Watt be quiet! Straight Power 11

Mainboard: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

CPU-Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4

RAM: 32GB (2x 16GB) Kingston FURY Renegade RGB DDR4-3600 CL16

GPU: 12GB MSI Radeon RX 6750 XT MECH 2X OC

 

I found a buyer for my GPU for 240€

 

Now I want to upgrade.

 

I made a kind of personal Tier List of GPUs that are an option:

 

Tier 1:

9070 XT

5070 Ti

4080

 

Tier 2:

7900 XTX

4070 Ti Super

9070

 

Tier 3:

4070 Ti

5070

7900 XT

4070 Super

 

This is based on 1440p performance and a slight bonus for newer generations.

In T1 the price winner by far is the 9070XT which can be bought new for 629€.

The cheapest new card I consider is an 5070 for 538€.

The used market is all over the place and flooded with scammers, maybe I'll find something.

 

Will the CPU be too much of a bottle neck?

The only option is the 5700X3D, right? 320€ is the cheapest I found new.

 

What would be your choice?

 

[Why_Me]

GPU for sure.

https://geizhals.de/?cat=gra16_512

[OddOod]

38 minutes ago, jan_flying said:

Will the CPU be too much of a bottle neck?

Even gaming at 1080p you shouldn't see too much of a performance bump by upgrading the CPU. I'd absolutely go with the GPU upgrade. 

[YoungBlade]

It really depends on the framerate you're targeting. If your goal is to upgrade to chase really high framerates above 200fps, the CPU upgrade is going to be necessary. If you want 240fps in PUBG, for example, the 5700X3D is basically the minimum. But if your goal is to upgrade to be able to crank settings at 1440p, then the GPU is the way to go.

 

The R7 5700X can get you 150-200fps in tons of games - PUBG is an example that falls in that range. You can also get 90-120fps in most demanding modern titles. My hunch is that GTA 6 will fall in that group, and that a Ryzen 5000 series system can expect around 100fps, but obviously, we have no way to know yet what the final game will perform like.

 

If you're comfortable with 60fps, then the 5700X is plenty. The only games where you can't achieve that are the most uber demanding games like Flight Simulator, or in heavily modded games.

 

Upgrading the GPU will let you achieve the framerates you already get with boosted visuals, or will let you achieve higher framerates if the 6750XT is holding you back at current settings.

[KidKid]

2 hours ago, jan_flying said:

Budget (including currency): 600€

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: PUBG, GTA 6 (lol)

 

Current build

Case: be quiet! Pure Base 500DX

PSU: 750 Watt be quiet! Straight Power 11

Mainboard: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

CPU-Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4

RAM: 32GB (2x 16GB) Kingston FURY Renegade RGB DDR4-3600 CL16

GPU: 12GB MSI Radeon RX 6750 XT MECH 2X OC

 

I found a buyer for my GPU for 240€

 

Now I want to upgrade.

 

I made a kind of personal Tier List of GPUs that are an option:

 

Tier 1:

9070 XT

5070 Ti

4080

 

Tier 2:

7900 XTX

4070 Ti Super

9070

 

Tier 3:

4070 Ti

5070

7900 XT

4070 Super

 

This is based on 1440p performance and a slight bonus for newer generations.

In T1 the price winner by far is the 9070XT which can be bought new for 629€.

The cheapest new card I consider is an 5070 for 538€.

The used market is all over the place and flooded with scammers, maybe I'll find something.

 

Will the CPU be too much of a bottle neck?

The only option is the 5700X3D, right? 320€ is the cheapest I found new.

 

What would be your choice?

 

The CPU should be fine for now, especially if you only upgrade to a 9070XT.  Past that will be a problem.

[jan_flying]

Thanks!

So I will keep the CPU and max out the GPU for now.

The next upgrade requires a complete rebuild so I tend to go as high as possible for now, because that's probably the final state of this system.

Does anyone has Anno experience, I had the feeling that in late, late game the CPU struggled a bit. But probably the 3D V-Cache doesn't help there, only more cores would help, right?