By Out I meant that soon it will be out in the market to buy. I have no budget limit, but do not want to waste money, and also do not want to change multiple things. My games are running fine at the moment at mediocre settings, and I want to run them at full max. You are right I should not expect magical results, I just want to run my games at 50 fps at max settings (my current FPS is 20 - 30 at medium settings). Games like RR2, Metro the latest one, Breakpoint, etc. are what I play.
And.. I did your FPS test as well.
Highest setting @ 7680 X 1440 resolution -- GPU went 100%, CPU went 35%, FPS - 22
Lowest setting @ 400 X 300 resolution -- GPU went 100%, CPU went 35%, (same as previous) FPS - 245
What does that tell?
Your test tells me that your cpu is capable of generating 245 FPS and that it is your graphics card that is holding you back. There is more to it than that of course, and some games are truly cpu limited.
Since you have few budget issues, I think that the 3080 would be the card to get.
Be careful how you interpret task manager cpu utilizations.
Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.
leading you to think your bottleneck was elsewhere.
It turns our that few games can USEFULLY use more than 4-6 threads.
How can you tell how well threaded your games or apps are?
One way is to disable one thread and see how you do.
You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option.
You will need to reboot for the change to take effect. Set the number of processors to less than you have.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many threads.
If you see little difference, it tells you that you will not benefit from more cores.
Likely, a better clock rate will be more important.
When the time comes to upgrade your cpu, look at one of the K suffix intel 10th gen processors.
They can all oc to about the 5.0 level and turbo even higher.
Today, ryzen tops our around 4.4.
Have you overclocked your 7600K?
If not, you are leaving some 20% performance on the table if you have a good chip.
As of 6/19/17
What percent of samples can get an overclock
at a vcore around 1.4v.
I5-7600K
4.9 72%
5.0 52%
5.1 27%
5.2 16%
5.3 samples exist, unknown % of occurrence
To see how sensitive your games are to single thread core speeds, here is another test for you:
Limit your cpu, either by reducing the OC, or, in windows power management, limit the maximum cpu% to something like 70%.
Go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
This will simulate what a lack of cpu power will do.
Conversely what a 30% improvement in core speed might do.