[SOLVED] I5 8500 GPU Recommendations for Ultrawide Gaming

[MattPayne111]

Hi all. I am wanting to get a 34"monitor 144hz to play IRacing and also Call Of Duty Warzone. I am thinking that i should upgrade gpu from gtx 1050ti to RX 5700xt but am thinking that the cpu doesn't have enough power and will bottleneck. NVIDIAs GPU are really expensive in my country so thats why im considering AMD. Please let me know what GPU you guys recommend, don't really have an option to upgrade cpu at this point but definitely will in the future i will.


CPU:I5 8500

GPU 1050ti

 

[popatim]

What resolution were you considering?
That is what will have the greatest impact on GPU selection.

 

[MattPayne111]

What resolution were you considering?
That is what will have the greatest impact on GPU selection.

It will be 3440x1440

 

[popatim]

I would say gtx1660Ti would be the minimum for 1440.

 

[MattPayne111]

I would say gtx1660Ti would be the minimum for 1440.

Okay thankyou

 

[sizzling]

It will be 3440x1440

At that high resolution you are less likely to be cpu limited. However that resolution needs a high end gpu. I’m running 2560x1440 144Hz with a 2080 Super and in games like Call if Duty I can only average 120fps by using a mixture of medium/high settings. As you want to run an even higher resolution I’d say the minimum gpu is a 2070 Super and your going to have to run even medium settings or even a mixture of medium/low.

 

[MattPayne111]

At that high resolution you are less likely to be cpu limited. However that resolution needs a high end gpu. I’m running 2560x1440 144Hz with a 2080 Super and in games like Call if Duty I can only average 120fps by using a mixture of medium/high settings. As you want to run an even higher resolution I’d say the minimum gpu is a 2070 Super and your going to have to run even medium settings or even a mixture of medium/low.

Thank you very much. What would you consider on the AMD GPU side of things

 

[sizzling]

Thank you very much. What would you consider on the AMD GPU side of things

Generally I wouldn’t. The 5700XT is similar to a 2070 Super but there are so many reports of driver issues I personally wouldn’t pick it. I’ve been there before, you can nearly guarantee the game you really want to play is the one that has driver issues that takes AMD months to fix.

 

[MattPayne111]

Generally I wouldn’t. The 5700XT is similar to a 2070 Super but there are so many reports of driver issues I personally wouldn’t pick it. I’ve been there before, you can nearly guarantee the game you really want to play is the one that has driver issues that takes AMD months to fix.

Okay thanks for the recommendation, You dont think a high end graphics card like a 2070 super will bottleneck an i5 8500

 

[Gmoney06ss]

Itd be more of an issue at 1080, but at 3440x1440, less so. Sure a better cpu would probably help you, but at such high resolution you're going to be more gpu bound.

But again, 3440x1440 is gonna be rough on even a 2070S. You may be better off saving some more cash and going 2080S instead.

I have slightly different results to sizzling. At 2560x1440 in COD campaign on max with rtx, I'll average over 100. Multiplayer with the same settings averages 80-90. With some more competitive minded settings 144+ is easily achievable. This is a 2080 non super/7700 non k. My 3440x1440 will be here monday, I'll try and update with fps for cod then. But I'm expecting a decent drop.

 

[sizzling]

Okay thanks for the recommendation, You dont think a high end graphics card like a 2070 super will bottleneck an i5 8500

The higher the resolution the less likely you are to have a bottleneck. Unfortunately the term bottleneck is thrown around and often misunderstood and then there are sites that claim to be able to calculate a bottleneck and are misleading garbage. For your situation think of it like this. The cpu determines the best FPS you can achieve. The gpu determines what resolution and game settings that FPS can be achieved at. If we assume the cpu limits you to 100fps in a specific game if you use an RTX 2060 you may have to run low settings at such a high resolution to achieve 100 FPS. However using a 2080Ti you can run high/ultra settings at 100fps. Either way your best FPS is 100 but there is a big difference in game settings.

 

[sizzling]

Itd be more of an issue at 1080, but at 3440x1440, less so. Sure a better cpu would probably help you, but at such high resolution you're going to be more gpu bound.

But again, 3440x1440 is gonna be rough on even a 2070S. You may be better off saving some more cash and going 2080S instead.

I have slightly different results to sizzling. At 2560x1440 in COD campaign on max with rtx, I'll average over 100. Multiplayer with the same settings averages 80-90. With some more competitive minded settings 144+ is easily achievable. This is a 2080 non super/7700 non k. My 3440x1440 will be here monday, I'll try and update with fps for cod then. But I'm expecting a decent drop.

FYI my findings are in multiplayer, my 2080S is just pegged at 98%+. To be fair I haven’t really tried the single player as with all COD’s I’m only interested in the multiplayer so I can’t compare. I also have Ray Tracing off. My settings are to keep the game 90% of the time over 120fps.