It will very much depend on the game. Newer AAA games will be limited by a 4 thread cpu even at 4K, some games may even be unplayable (Gears 5 comes to mind). However you don’t need a 12700k, at 4K it won’t give any better performance than say a 3600/5600X/11400 but I get you might be wanting headroom for the future.Is it worth upgrading from i5 7600k to i7 12700k or should I wait until meteor lake release? How much difference should I expect in fps? I have an RTX 3080 and gaming at 4K .
Yeah, I'm looking for a future proof cpu. I don't upgrade my PC every year, but every 5th generation. I just not sure about this one if it will give me something difference.It will very much depend on the game. Newer AAA games will be limited by a 4 thread cpu even at 4K, some games may even be unplayable (Gears 5 comes to mind). However you don’t need a 12700k, at 4K it won’t give any better performance than say a 3600/5600X/11400 but I get you might be wanting headroom for the future.
As I say, it will depend on the game. Some games (Gears 5) for example run terribly on a 4 thread cpu, other games are held back but playable and some running perfectly fine. If you want to run any game at 60fps or above you definitely need a cpu upgrade.Yeah, I'm looking for a future proof cpu. I don't upgrade my PC every year, but every 5th generation. I just not sure about this one if it will give me something difference.
I suppose it depends on if you want to do it cheaply or go for a full system upgrade.
If you have decently fast DDR4, you could pick up a DDR4 AlderLake board and keep that. i5-12600k would seem to be a good choice. Don't want to spend too much since the CPU after that must be DDR5 and would mean a new board, and memory minimum, but also likely the CPU since the LGA1700 socket isn't expected to last beyond two generations.
I went with the cheaper stop-gap measure. i9-10900F, a nice 10 core so I have threads for the future, and quite good low thread count performance. Similarly, a 10th or 11th gen i5 or i7 would also be a big step up from an 4 thread CPU.
Thanks for your advice, but I'm looking for newer tech that has ddr5 and pcie 5.0. l knew there is no difference between ddr5 and ddr4. There is no ssd or gpu that uses pcie 5.0 yet, maybe next year. What I usually do is that I sell my old computer before buying a new one, if I upgrade to the same tech such as ddr4, in five years from now nobody will be interested in buying an old tech like an old motherboard with old cpu and, ddr4 will be dead in 1 year. By the way ddr4 is at the same price as ddr5 at least in my country.4c/4t gaming is basically dead, unless you are only playing lightweight E-sports type games. A 12600k, and DDR4 motherboard would be a good choice. The 12700k isn't a terrible idea, if wanting it to hold up a bit longer. Z690 Asus boards have mounting holes for LGA 1200 and LGA 1700, so you could reuse your cooling as well, if it is up to the task.
If you wait for the next best thing, you will wait forever.Is it worth upgrading from i5 7600k to i7 12700k or should I wait until meteor lake release? How much difference should I expect in fps? I have an RTX 3080 and gaming at 4K .