FX-6350 Bottleneck MSI R9 390?
the FX-6300 only has 3 floating-point unit which can and will impact it's performance in games...also overall CPU load won't mean much because i've seen my FX limit my 780 even though the CPU was only around 60% utilisation and no core was maxed out...the CPU can be too slow to process given drawcalls fast enough and therefore limit the GPU in it's operations even if no threads are even maxed out, gaming is all about speed...how fast can you process this, and then this, and then this, and this, and this...i think you get the idea!
The i5-4460 is equiped with 4x 256bits floating point units which are a lot stronger and faster than that of the FX-6300...even though an heavily overclocked FX-6300 can outperform the intel i5 in SOME instances which involve heavy multi-threaded integer based operations this does not translate at all when it comes to it's actual gaming performance.
Obviously, I'm not saying it's better for gaming by any means ^^ It's definitely good enough to keep it and get the 390 until he gets the money for a CPU upgrade, that's my entire point here, it's unreasonable to get a worse GPU if he can afford the 390, I'm sure you agree on this with me
@BlashaOwns that's basically what you should do, get the 390 (although I highly recommend looking for a R9 290X, cause they're often the same price, and the 290X is more powerful, @App4that confirmed that the 290 series with the same clocks is almost the same as the 390 series, cause he owns a 290 and a 390, so the 290X is very, very close to a 390X after overclocking, and can even surpass a non-overclocked one) and make your CPU your next upgrade when you get the money
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