CPU and GPU combo question

[gchorvas]

I am planning on buy a new gpu ... gtx 960 or r9 380 or r9 380x .... i havent choose yet .... but here is my question .... will i make a good use of gpu like this considering i have an i5 3470 ??? or a gpu like the ones mentioned above will be an overkill and i should buy something like gtx 750ti or r7 370 ??? ....... i saw minimum requiremnents of some new games and my cpu considered like a minimum cpu to play the game ... thats why i am asking !!

 

[GhislainG]

Benchmarks performed by this site should answer your question: http://www.techspot.com/review/917-far-cry-4-benchmarks/page5.html http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html Your CPU is good enough for more powerful GPUs than the ones you seem to be interested in.

 

[gchorvas]

thank you very much ... these links actually are very helpfull .... according to this site http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/ my cpu is a little bit worse than the minimum cpu needed to play witcher 3 (Intel CPU Core i5-2500K ) .... that will cause some framedrops in occasions or i will not be able to run it at all?

 

[GhislainG]

thank you very much ... these links actually are very helpfull .... according to this site http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/ my cpu is a little bit worse than the minimum cpu needed to play witcher 3 (Intel CPU Core i5-2500K ) .... that will cause some framedrops in occasions or i will not be able to run it at all?

Use sites that run benchmarks with your CPU. http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html shows that your CPU is slightly faster than a stock i5-2500K (it obviously is a bit faster when overclocked). What's more important is the minimum FPS that barely increases with a more powerful CPU. Also bear in mind that your GPU will be nowhere near a GTX 980; therefore the bottleneck will be the GPU. Based on page 2, you'll be able to use medium quality while achieving a good minimum FPS. The entry level GTX 750 Ti was not tested because it's a bit slower than a GTX 660 that can't keep the minimum FPS above 30.

 

[gchorvas]

thanks a lot my friend ... and one last question i hope to answer .... which one of gtx 960 vs r9 380 vs r9 380x (all 4 gb versions) you think will give me better performance?

 

[GhislainG]

The decision should be between the GTX 960 and the R9 380X. My choice would be the R9 380X followed by the best deal on the other two.