[SOLVED] Upgrading cpu?

[Icecole25]

I currently have a 3070 with a 3700x thinking about stepping up my cpu. Would I see a big difference going to a 3900xt?

 

[sizzling]

What resolution do you game at?

At best any gain would be negligible. The only upgrade that might have a small benefit is going to a 5000 series with its stronger single core performance. The extra cores of the 3900xt will add very little for gaming and the extra mhz is minimal.

 

[Kona45primo]

Nope, maybe 1-2% more fps if any at all. Most frames per second are going to be a product of the video card. If you need the extra cores for other work than go for it, but it's a lot of wasted money if you're just focused on fps.

I'm in a similar boat, I really want to upgrade (1600X) but my gpu is the bottle neck (980). With AM5 coming within a year I'll just hold tight, wait for a GPU at reasonable prices and upgrade to AM5 when it gets here.

 

[Nemesia]

The 3600X, 3700X, 3800X, 3900X and 3950X all perform the same in games. The 3900XT will not be faster in games. That CPU is a workstation CPU that you buy because of the high cores count for editing stuff etc. Your 3700X is more than enough.

The Ryzen 5000 has a 19% IPC increase over the Ryzen 3000. If you want to upgrade you will have to go for a Ryzen 5000.

Games are ok with a 6 cores 12 thread CPU right now and yours is a 8 cores 16 threads. That CPU is fine for now and the near future or until games start using more than 8 cores. Which is not soon.

 

[Icecole25]

Ok I also right now have 16gb of ddr4 3200mhz ram would I gain anything going to 32gb at 3600mhz

 

[Nemesia]

Ok I also right now have 16gb of ddr4 3200mhz ram would I gain anything going to 32gb at 3600mhz

On some titles 0 fps. On some titles 5 fps. Not worth it.

 

[Kona45primo]

I just "upgraded" my 1600x from 16GB CL16 2400mhz to 16GB CL14 3200mhz. Gained nothing as my GPU is the bottleneck, running it at 100% my CPU is only pulling 50% usage. It does look nice & shiny though.

 

[Icecole25]

What resolution do you game at?

At best any gain would be negligible. The only upgrade that might have a small benefit is going to a 5000 series with its stronger single core performance. The extra cores of the 3900xt will add very little for gaming and the extra mhz is minimal.

I game at 1440p

 

[sizzling]

I game at 1440p

I’m running a 3080 and 3700x at 1440p 144Hz. In AAA games the gpu is still the limiting factor if I want to achieve >140fps.