Got a new i5 but will it be better than my old AMD?

[GuyNamedBrad]

So my rig (yesturday) had an AMD A10 7700k, 16 Gb Corsair vengence ram, and a R9 270x video card. Today I purchased a new motherboard and intel i5 6400, will this give better proformace due to college I have not had time to install it yet and was wondering if anyone else had input on if hte i5 should proform 'or will proform better?'. All feedback welcome.

[don_svetlio]

It will perform better, yes.

[mikat]

So my rig (yesturday) had an AMD A10 7700k, 16 Gb Corsair vengence ram, and a R9 270x video card. Today I purchased a new motherboard and intel i5 6400k, will this give better proformace due to college I have not had time to install it yet and was wondering if anyone else had input on if hte i5 should proform 'or will proform better?'. All feedback welcome.

the i5 will destroy that A10 7700k and there is no i5-6400k but only i5-6400, i5-6500, i5-6600 or i5-6600k

edit: only in applications that are heavy on your cpu: brokenfield 4, rendering and alot more

[Naijin]

It will, but it won't be increasing your fps by a whole lot. In CPU intensive games, it might yield 20-30%, some games you won't notice any difference. General performance should be a bit faster, especially running applications from an SSD.

[Imabigmac]

Probably not in games as you were probably not bottlenecked much with a 270x and a fairly new a10.  But in other CPU intensive tasks there will be a gain in performance with the i5

[GuyNamedBrad]

the i5 will destroy that A10 7700k and there is no i5-6400k but only i5-6400, i5-6500, i5-6600 or i5-6600k

Oh sorry typo lmao thank for that.

[manikyath]

offcourse it depends on how cpu-heavy your game is, but in a 100% cpu-bound scenario, you could expect somewhere between 50-100% speed increase.

[GuyNamedBrad]

the i5 will destroy that A10 7700k and there is no i5-6400k but only i5-6400, i5-6500, i5-6600 or i5-6600k

Oh sorry typo lmao thank for that.

 

Probably not in games as you were probably not bottlenecked much with a 270x and a fairly new a10.  But in other CPU intensive tasks there will be a gain in performance with the i5

Hmm for me I found the AMD A10 to be the bottle neck as the GPU would not be fully utilized but the CPU (A10) would get pinned at 100%

[Atmos]

In games like arma? you're about to see a night and day difference.

In normal games, not a ton of difference, but certainly an improvement none the less.

[manikyath]

In games like arma? you're about to see a night and day difference.

In normal games, not a ton of difference, but certainly an improvement none the less.

also worth mentioning microstutters (which are, at least to me, significantly worse than low fps) are very often cpu related.

[GuyNamedBrad]

I guess giving a few games might help people gauge better, I play alot of; Minecraft, Terraria, BF4, GTA V, and ARK survival. Ill try to average here but ill also add it AMD fps; Minecraft 120+ no problem here, Terraria 120+ no problem here, BF4 50-60 fps, GTA V 30-40 fps, and ARK 20-30 playable but could better.

[s3ns3]

It will, but it won't be increasing your fps by a whole lot. In CPU intensive games, it might yield 20-30%

its actually 50% +

in gpu bound games the difference is smaller. however he only has a 270x

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very good upgrade man

[JoeCoke]

I would have spent that money on a SSD or upgrading the GPU instead, that's a lot of money for not too much of a performance boost.

 

But that's just me. Yes, the i5 will destroy your old CPU.

[Imabigmac]

Oh sorry typo lmao thank for that.

 

Hmm for me I found the AMD A10 to be the bottle neck as the GPU would not be fully utilized but the CPU (A10) would get pinned at 100%

Okay, I was only guessing really. I know a older A10 (5700) was 30% bottlenecked by a GTX 770 in AAA titles. Newer A10 with a 7870 which is about equal to a 660ti, 770 ~ 680. So I figured your set up would just be okay - but apparently not. 

 

with GTA 5 you are looking at some big improvements then. 

[GuyNamedBrad]

I would have spent that money on a SSD or upgrading the GPU instead, that's a lot of money for not too much of a performance boost.

 

But that's just me. Yes, the i5 will destroy your old CPU.

Actually haha my system is running on 2 Kingston SSD's so the main bottleneck I felt was the CPU.

 

Okay, I was only guessing really. I know a older A10 (5700) was 30% bottlenecked by a GTX 770 in AAA titles. Newer A10 with a 7870 which is about equal to a 660ti, 770 ~ 680. So I figured your set up would just be okay - but apparently not. 

 

with GTA 5 you are looking at some big improvements then. 

Sounds good haha I guess I'll make a new post tomorrow with the real results of how I found it! Thanks for the feedback guys much appreaciated!

[JoeCoke]

Actually haha my system is running on 2 Kingston SSD's so the main bottleneck I felt was the CPU.

 

Sounds good haha I guess I'll make a new post tomorrow with the real results of how I found it! Thanks for the feedback guys much appreaciated!

Oh damn, okay lol.

 

Still, that 270x has got to go as soon as you have more money. Your GPU is the main thing to worry about if FPS is your concern.

[GuyNamedBrad]

Oh damn, okay lol.

 

Still, that 270x has got to go as soon as you have more money. Your GPU is the main thing to worry about if FPS is your concern.

Haha ok I'll look into it I just kind thought having 4Gb of DDR5 was good enough Thanks !