Is the Upgrade Worth It?

[Khajiit Dealer]

My specs right now are:

EVGA 980 Ti SC ACX 2.0

i7 3770k

16 GB Crucial DDR3 @1600mhz

1TB HDD

64GB SSD

CX750M

Would upgrading my CPU to a i7 6700k be worth it at this point for gaming? I'm aware that I'd need to get a new mobo and RAM as well.

[TetraSky]

For gaming? No.

[Senzelian]

My specs right now are:

EVGA 980 Ti SC ACX 2.0

i7 3770k

16 GB Crucial DDR3 @1600mhz

1TB HDD

64GB SSD

CX750M

Would upgrading my CPU to a i7 6700k be worth it at this point for gaming? I'm aware that I'd need to get a new mobo and RAM as well.

I wouldn't upgrade your CPU just for gaming. Your 3770k probably reks my i5-4670 and I will probably not upgrade in the next 1-2 years.

[TetraSky]

I wouldn't upgrade your CPU just for gaming. Your 3770k probably reks my i5-4670 and I will probably not upgrade in the next 1-2 years.

Well it certainly rek my 875k and I'm still not looking to upgrade the CPU just for gaming. The 5~10 fps or so I'd gain in games from getting the latest CPU isn't worth it. Unlike with the P4 era, where CPU performance was advancing quickly, these days a CPUs is still perfectly good after 5+ years.

[Senzelian]

Well it certainly rek my 875k and I'm still not looking to upgrade the CPU just for gaming. The 5~10 fps or so I'd gain in games from getting the latest CPU isn't worth it. Unlike with the P4 era, where CPU performance was advancing quickly, these days a CPUs is still perfectly good after 5+ years.

With a few exceptions. My 4670 cries everytime I start Cities Skylines... 

[Khajiit Dealer]

Well it certainly rek my 875k and I'm still not looking to upgrade the CPU just for gaming. The 5~10 fps or so I'd gain in games from getting the latest CPU isn't worth it. Unlike with the P4 era, where CPU performance was advancing quickly, these days a CPUs is still perfectly good after 5+ years.

I could have sworn that there was a 20% increase in FPS on the Witcher 3 when comparing a 6700k to a 3770k?

[TetraSky]

With a few exceptions. My 4670 cries everytime I start Cities Skylines... 

I was able to play Cities Skylines just fine though? Yes it's a CPU intensive game, but it's not THAT intensive.

 

I could have sworn that there was a 20% increase in FPS on the Witcher 3 when comparing a 6700k to a 3770k?

20% of what exactly? what resolution? what settings?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-review

This for example, shows the 6700k getting 99.8fps, while the 3770k gets 91.9fps. At 1080p, Ultra, HairWorks Off, Custom AA.

That's not 20% increase. And totally not worth buying a new CPU, a new motherboard and new RAM "just" for that.

[SteveGrabowski0]

I could have sworn that there was a 20% increase in FPS on the Witcher 3 when comparing a 6700k to a 3770k?

 

Not even close. At 1080p with a Titan X a 4.4 GHz i7-6700k averages 100.2 fps vs a 4.4 GHz i7-3700k averaging 94.7 fps in the Digital Foundry benchmark in Novigrad, which is very cpu intensive. So the i7-6700k gets 5.8% higher average framerate than the i7-3700k here.

 

 

But in GTA V and Far Cry 4 there is definitely a very big difference (~30%). But that's only going to show up now if you're trying to push more than 60 fps. Far Cry 4 is understandable since it has long been known to be dominated by single core performance, but GTA V is a surprise. I imagine a lot of that has to do with faster DDR4 RAM too though, as the 6700k has a huge lead on the 4790k in both games despite the 6700k's IPC not being a whole lot better.

[Senzelian]

I was able to play Cities Skylines just fine though? Yes it's a CPU intensive game, but it's not THAT intensive.

Intensive enough so that my 4670 acts as a bottleneck for my 980s.

In Fallout 4 the same, but Fallout4 is probably just so badly optimized that it doesn't matter anyways.