Question What to upgrade, or just hold tight?

[JoeFig44]

Currently playing BG3 and Cyberpunk mostly, but may try out SW Outlaws or Wukong.

I'm in no hurry to upgrade

3900x
4070 Ti
16gb RAM
LG C4 42" OLED

Gaming at 3840x2160p isn't a bad experience right now, but I'm wondering if I'm missing out by upgrading.

Funding isn't an issue, but I'm frugal.

Any advice?

 

[Eximo]

Not worth upgrading unless you really want to crank up the settings. RTX4090 if you want a significant bump.

You could max out the CPU with a 5900x or a 5800X3D if you want to increase 1% lows, but at 4K this would be pretty minor.

32GB of ram would be a cheap upgrade if you are seeing high memory usage.

I would wait and see what Blackwell brings at the least, so another six months or more.

 

[JoeFig44]

Not worth upgrading unless you really want to crank up the settings. RTX4090 if you want a significant bump.

You could max out the CPU with a 5900x or a 5800X3D if you want to increase 1% lows, but at 4K this would be pretty minor.

32GB of ram would be a cheap upgrade if you are seeing high memory usage.

I would wait and see what Blackwell brings at the least, so another six months or more.

What tool can I use while playing to determine if I'm getting high memory usage?

 

[Eximo]

There are quite a few, many will be banned in multiplayer games though (since it draws stuff on the screen)

MSI Afterburner is the most common. Bit of a setup as you get to pick what gets displayed.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_y6KoQe3oQ


You can also just alt tab out to task manager and see what the memory usage looks like from the performance tab. It will capture data for a minute or so.

 

[JoeFig44]

Task manager shows in BG3 I'm generally about 1-3GB free. In-use shows ~14GB with about 2GB compressed.

Do you think adding another 16GB of RAM would help?

 

[Eximo]

Apparently it will cache textures in system memory the more you have. So not critical for that particular title. Just means a little slower loading or perhaps texture pop in from time to time.

Cyberpunk does show increased performance with more system memory, 8 or 9%.

Haven't really looked into the two newer titles.