With Dx 12 coming should I stay with FX 8350 or upgrade to i7-4790K

[mert90]

Motherboard: GIGABYTE 970A-UD3
CPU: FX 8350
RAM: 16GB G.Skill 1866Mhz CAS 10
GPU: Zotac GTX 980 AMP! Extreme Edition
Monitor: AOC e2352PHz @1080p
PSU: 750W 80+ Silver

As you can see I have a powerful gpu and don't get me wrong it is already a great system, but with most of the recent AAA titles @1080p the system can't push Ultra at 60 fps like it should given the graphics card. Far Cry 4, Watch Dogs and GTA V are examples of this and the problem of CPU because the minimum fps is always behind an i7 or even an i5 rigs with the same gpu.

I have cash for the upgrade I've been wanting for some time and thinking about the IPC gain would cover the core count loss from going from 8 to 4, so i7-4790K is overall is much more powerful at same 4 GHz due to IPC and due to this I can even think about SLI in future and get the minimum fps of games at ultra increased considerably so I can play at 60 fps.

Crucial part:
Now Dx 12 is coming around (end of July and games following soon) and the only Dx 11 games I still play and have problem with (steady 60fps at ultra with AA) are mainly Far Cry 4 and GTA V, and given that Dx 12 is MUCH more core count friendly and doing actual work with the extra cores at 2+ should I actually keep my FX 8350 and change only the motherboard with SLI enabled one for a possible future SLI (as current mobo only supports single graphics)?

Some of you may say it's not really an 8 core processor (4 x 2 core bundles), but it has 8 logic processors as far as OS is concerned and internals are not important for games which sees it as real 8 core processor, AND the same goes for i7 HT as a 4 core with HT can act like an 8 core processor but in reality it's just a kind of gimmick but in reality it is 4 cores, HT sometimes help with it and actually improves performance but for Dx 12 it acts as 4 cores right?

 

[smorizio]

i would hold off...after summer intel dropping there newer skylake cpu. it 1151 pins so it wont fit on the mb that are out now. your also having newer gpu from amd and nvidia having there newer pascal cards sometime in 2016. myself i wait till black friday..cyber monday and if you have local micro center and they still have there instant combos to buy the newer skylake and mb and ram at the same time. the ntry and reuse as much as the old pc as you can.

 

[DubbleClick]

Once again a "directx 12 will be the new god" thread...
Nothing will change about games optimization if developers do not specifically do it. They already can with dx11 and hell even dx9. There are games with about the same graphics as AC:U/FC3 that run on much lower hardware and even then smoother. The problem is in no way the used api there, it's that the developers decided to not dedicate time towards optimization but instead let the stronger hardware we have today deal with it. Which is how economy works, why would they spend half a year on optimizing the performance, which costs 50% extra money but only yields 5% extra buyers? And then, why would they magically change their minds when dx12 comes out?

 

[spdragoo]

Doesn't matter whether it's "behind" the others or not, what matters is whether the minimum FPS you're getting is meeting your needs.

Although GTA V is a poor example to use, as a number of posts have shown people with i5s & i7s paired with GTX 970s & better cards complaining about big FPS drops, especially when they hit the cities & start driving in-game. It's not a hardware issue, it's a software issue.

Better to wait & see what comes out within the next year. As pointed out already, Skylake won't be released for the LGA 1150 platforms; it's getting a brand-new socket (LGA 1151), which is not backwards-compatible with the LGA 1150 chips, so even if going Intel now gives you the possibility of an i5 or i7 that's good for a couple more years, it's still going to be a dead-end buy.

So, save the cash for now.