I need help with my GPU or CPU

[Jack_B95]

O.K. I have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 750Ti and an AMD A8 3850 APU with radeon graphics, I play GTA V at around 75-30 fps but i have to play it at very low settings, so my question is: is my cpu holding me back or am i just being bitchy, should I upgrade cpu or gpu?

 

[Karsten75]

that's a huge variance in FPS. First guess I'd say that the GPU is far more capable than the A8 APU.

 

[bjornl]

Neither are 'tops'. If you want higher details and higher FPS both, then you should consider upgrading both. Between the two, I'd suspect your CPU is the most in need of an upgrade. The a8 is not a very powerful CPU.
If you want a 'cheap' upgrade then a used intel i5-2500k system is far more capable and very low price. It won't be ideal, but will be fast enough to not be the bottle neck. For example, the above named named CPU combined with 8gb of ram and a 970gtx can play fallout for on all max settings on a 1080p screen. With a older (and far cheaper) ATI 7950 video card you would need to turn down the settings to somewhere between "mid-level" and "max". I know you mentioned GTA V, but I don't play that and so the above is just to illustrate that once you get a CPU that is just good enough, the video card plays a far bigger roie in game performance. So while a Skylake CPU might be preferred, it is a luxury not a requirement for decent gaming performance.

If you want to squeeze a little life out of it while you consider things, look in to tuning your windows system. There are plenty of sites and tools for this. Short version turn off everything you can live with out (make Windows 7 ugly), reduce background tasks, reduce items that load on startup, and so on. This alone should give you a slightly more even gaming experience.

 

[djreedj]

Upgrade the CPU, its a very intensive game. The 750ti isnt ideal but should be able to run what you want at low settings.

 

[Guest]

In my opinion you should upgrade both the CPU and GPU.

An AMD FX-8320 and GTX 960 should do the job.

It can get +60 FPS not only in GTA V but many other modern games.

And how much RAM do you have? You might want to upgrade to 8GB.

Good Luck Upgrading your Desktop!

Hope you find this helpful.