Next upgrade after RX 480 with fx8350

[Alijericho]

I was told all this time my CPU is bottlenecking the poor GPU. But after running MSI AfterB, I was surprised seeing 100% GPU utilization while CPU was comfortable around 50% or less. Im talking about recent to newest titles.

Therefore i concluded i shudnt replace CPU just yet rather i should invest in newer GPU untill my CPU can handle no more. Any suggestions?

My setup--
8350 black edition
Rx480 refrence 8gb
LG 34um57 (freesync)
Corsair psu 850
8 gb Kingston

 

[bjornl]

The fx8350 is an ancient CPU. It does bottleneck your GPU in some games, just not in all of them.

If you want to keep using free-sync, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 would certainly be faster. Might want to add another casefan as they run a little hot.

 

[photonboy]

The amount of bottleneck varies by the game.

Some games will have little to no bottleneck, whereas some might see as much as 50% higher frame rates with the same video card and good Intel i7 CPU.

If your games don't see much CPU bottleneck, and more importantly you hit the FPS that you desire then stick with what you have for now.

OTHER:
Not sure what your Freesync range is as some people say 48Hz to 75Hz, but the site says it is a 60Hz monitor..

However, i would set an FPS CAP that's about 5FPS lower than whatever the top is (i.e. 55FPS or 70FPS) for some of your games so that they stay in the smoother, asynchronous range.

For example, an Assassin's Creed game... tweak the graphics settings so you don't drop below the LOW end (i.e. 40FPS or 48FPS?) very often and with a forced FPS cap the game should stay in the smooth range.

I don't know how to set FPS caps (there is a GLOBAL option for all games... possibly set that then change other games on a per-game basis back to VSYNC OFF if you want high refresh, non-Freesync such as 150FPS or whatever in CSGO or other shooters).