Worth it to upgrade?

[Ceetch]

I recently upgraded from a NVidia GTX750 to a GTX1050, after looking at benchmarks and feeling like the difference from 750 to 1050 would be significant, I found that it mostly only added up to a minor bump in FPS and virtually no improvement in graphics quality.

I'm playing older games mostly, which aren't terribly demanding on graphics, so I would have expected a GTX 1050 to handle high/ultra settings without too much trouble, but even the 1050 needs to turn down some of the post-processing effects and things like that to keep near 60fps.

 

Now, I'm debating where the issue is. Is there a bottleneck from my somewhat older system, or is the 1050's benchmarks not as stellar as I thought?  Should I invest in a 1070 or 1080, or will it only offer marginal benefits as the jump from 750 to 1050 did?

As far as my system, it's a i7 3770k running at stock speeds and stock cooling on a ASRock H77M board and 16GB DDR3 memory at standard XMP speeds, nothing too impressive.

 

As far as the games, older things like World of Warcraft, The Sims 4, and Dragon Age: Inquisition.  Even something older like World of Warcraft at Ultra settings struggles to hold 60fps and falls more comfortably around 45-50fps anywhere with spells or other visuals flying around.

 

Is it worth saving for a GTX 1080 with these specs, or would I be better off planning out a new system from scratch to deal with any bottlenecks holding the GTX 1050 back?

[MooOfDoom]

11 minutes ago, Ceetch said:

I recently upgraded from a NVidia GTX750 to a GTX1050, after looking at benchmarks and feeling like the difference from 750 to 1050 would be significant, I found that it mostly only added up to a minor bump in FPS and virtually no improvement in graphics quality.

I'm playing older games mostly, which aren't terribly demanding on graphics, so I would have expected a GTX 1050 to handle high/ultra settings without too much trouble, but even the 1050 needs to turn down some of the post-processing effects and things like that to keep near 60fps.

 

Now, I'm debating where the issue is. Is there a bottleneck from my somewhat older system, or is the 1050's benchmarks not as stellar as I thought?  Should I invest in a 1070 or 1080, or will it only offer marginal benefits as the jump from 750 to 1050 did?

As far as my system, it's a i7 3770k running at stock speeds and stock cooling on a ASRock H77M board and 16GB DDR3 memory at standard XMP speeds, nothing too impressive.

 

As far as the games, older things like World of Warcraft, The Sims 4, and Dragon Age: Inquisition.  Even something older like World of Warcraft at Ultra settings struggles to hold 60fps and falls more comfortably around 45-50fps anywhere with spells or other visuals flying around.

 

Is it worth saving for a GTX 1080 with these specs, or would I be better off planning out a new system from scratch to deal with any bottlenecks holding the GTX 1050 back?

I would have to say that its the processor that is bottlenecking the gpu performance.

[Ceetch]

Unfortunately, it seems they don't make boards that can overclock that particular CPU anymore, and my current board can't use anything better... I guess it's time to start planning my next build...  Is the GTX1050 worth carrying over to my new system?  It's not something I'll be building for a while, and I can settle for the performance I'm getting right now, but I would wonder what stuff I can use from my current system to speed up building the new one.  Obviously need a new MB/CPU/RAM, but I think I could carry over my SSD, HDD and GPU.  Probably don't need a dedicated sound card, since I have an external DAC now.  With the current generation of CPUs and the kinds of games I play, what's a good CPU to pair with the GTX1050 that won't bottleneck if I later upgrade to a GTX1080Ti or similar?

[Jurrunio]

What are the older games? I mean, Crysis still eats budget graphics cards for breakfast in maximum settings

 

But seriously, 1050 is about 30% faster than 750, it's still not a fast card. Try use the same settings as you did before with the 750 and you should see the frame rates go up quite a bit.

 

Yeah, overclockable mobo can only be found used. Z77, Z68 and P67 are the 3 chipsets that allowed overclocking

 

At stock speeds the 3770k can at most handle a GTX 1060 6GB or RX 580 without CPU bottleneck, and they give 40-50% higher frame rates than the 1050 under most cases.