[SOLVED] Is this a signicant upgrade for gaming?

[SkyRock1986]

I currently have:

CoolerMaster Pro 5 Chassis
PC Mate Z97 1150
i5 4690K Overclocked to 4.0Ghz
RipJaws G.Skills 16Gb of DDR3
Nvidia GTX 1080 Founders Edition

Looking to purchase:

darkFlash Phantom Black ATX Mid-Tower 6 preinstalled RGB fans
ASUS Prime X470-Pro AMD Ryzen 2 AM4 DDR4 DP HDMI M.2 USB 3.1 ATX Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Processor
darkFlash DT240 240mm Water Liquid Cooling Cooler Radiator
XPG Spectrix D41 RGB 3000MHz 16GB (2x8GB) 228-Pin
Keeping the GTX 1080

 

[CountMike]

Yes it is.

 

[dudeman509]

If you're not choking due to core/thread count in games that YOU play right now, you probably won't see much of an improvement.

If you are playing games (for instance Battlefield V) that are running out of CPU power, you will see increased performance going to the Ryzen build.

 

[SkyRock1986]

Well I noticed on Ultra settings in games like Far Cry New Dawn. All my cores will sometimes run 100%. Is that just good because its full utilization or is that a bottleneck? I don't notice any slow down at all when that occurs, but isn't that also a sign of bottlenecking?

 

[dudeman509]

Well I noticed on Ultra settings in games like Far Cry New Dawn. All my cores will sometimes run 100%. Is that just good because its full utilization or is that a bottleneck? I don't notice any slow down at all when that occurs, but isn't that also a sign of bottlenecking?

It is, but if you are maintaining >= 60 FPS on a 60 Hz monitor like most people still have, it doesn't really matter. They can only display 60 FPS anyway.

That said, I didn't see anything about what resolution or monitor you're playing on. If you're using a GTX 1080 for 1920*1080 gaming, almost any current CPU will actually be the limiting factor compared to that high end GPU there. Once you head to 1440p or 4k gaming, the "bottleneck" shifts towards the GPU instead.

 

[SkyRock1986]

Yes, I am now gaming at 1440p and 165hz as of just recent. Therefore I upgraded rest of hardware as well.