Upgrade from fx 8350 to i7 7600k has no performance difference

[Andrew Leeseberg]

I just spent over $500 dollars upgrading my computer from the 2012 FX 8350 to the 2015 flagship i7 6700k, and in the first game I test, Assassins Creed: Unity, my performance was identical. Not even 5 fps difference 45 fps AVG with Fx 8350 and 47 fps AVG with i7 6700k. What is happening what possible reason could there be for the performance to be identical. Before you ask the GPU is not a bottleneck sitting around 60% usage most of the time.

Full system specs:
i7 6700k
ASUS Express Maximus VII
800 Watt gold rated EVGA
8 GB DDR4 @ 3200
GTX 980
1 TB hard drive

 

[turkey3_scratch]

What is CPU usage of each core/thread?

 

[MachoAlbatross]

Assassins creed unity is not a good game to play on pc anyways. Play several different games and see if you notice a difference. Also, oc you i7 a bit, that might help.

 

[CountMike]

Anything not utilizing CPU to the max or thereabouts is not going to have impact. That's why finding out exact needs is most important before any upgrades or even starting from 0.

 

[Hawkshot]

Assassins creed is a terrible game to be testing this on, the kind of games where you will see a huge jump in performance will be CPU heavy games, for example MOBA games (League,DOTA2) also higher spec games like battlefield 4 and Fall out 4 should be a fair increase in speed. Assassins creed is a poorly optimised game for PC's as it is so try something else

 

[Bem-xxx]

You should have read this before.

http://www.technologyx.com/featured/amd-vs-intel-our-8-core-cpu-gaming-performance-showdown/

And this

http://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedia/58/core-i7-4770k-vs-amd-fx-8350-with-gtx-980-vs-gtx-780-sli-at-4k/index.html

No worth upgrading if you play console ports.