To throw another data point into the mix, I benchmarked before and after I took my CPU from 3.5 to 4.7 - no performance change whatsoever (I was benching in 2D though).
To throw another data point into the mix, I benchmarked before and after I took my CPU from 3.5 to 4.7 - no performance change whatsoever (I was benching in 2D though).
Rise of the Tomb Raider
GTA V
Project Cars
These 3 games, whether i play them in 720p or 1440p, i get the exact same FPS as soon as i trigger 3D Vision. Which means that they are CPU bound and, for some reasons, games tend to become CPU bound when 3D Vision is turned on.
It is not true for all games (ie Witcher 3's scalability is perfect), but, i start to believe that current games will only be playable at 60fps in 10 years, when CPUs will have made significant progress.
These 3 games, whether i play them in 720p or 1440p, i get the exact same FPS as soon as i trigger 3D Vision. Which means that they are CPU bound and, for some reasons, games tend to become CPU bound when 3D Vision is turned on.
It is not true for all games (ie Witcher 3's scalability is perfect), but, i start to believe that current games will only be playable at 60fps in 10 years, when CPUs will have made significant progress.
[quote="Ixo"]Rise of the Tomb Raider
GTA V
Project Cars
These 3 games, whether i play them in 720p or 1440p, i get the exact same FPS as soon as i trigger 3D Vision. Which means that they are CPU bound and, for some reasons, games tend to become CPU bound when 3D Vision is turned on.
It is not true for all games (ie Witcher 3's scalability is perfect), but, i start to believe that current games will only be playable at 60fps in 10 years, when CPUs will have made significant progress.
[/quote]
Well thats a good thing 1440P 3D isn't anymore taxing than 1080p
Ixo said:Rise of the Tomb Raider
GTA V
Project Cars
These 3 games, whether i play them in 720p or 1440p, i get the exact same FPS as soon as i trigger 3D Vision. Which means that they are CPU bound and, for some reasons, games tend to become CPU bound when 3D Vision is turned on.
It is not true for all games (ie Witcher 3's scalability is perfect), but, i start to believe that current games will only be playable at 60fps in 10 years, when CPUs will have made significant progress.
Well thats a good thing 1440P 3D isn't anymore taxing than 1080p
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[quote="Pirateguybrush"]To throw another data point into the mix, I benchmarked before and after I took my CPU from 3.5 to 4.7 - no performance change whatsoever (I was benching in 2D though).[/quote]
In 2D, all cores are active, which can push the bottleneck back to the GPU. So, any 2D benchmarks are misleading for this game in particular.
[quote="clammy"][quote="Ixo"]Rise of the Tomb Raider
GTA V
Project Cars
These 3 games, whether i play them in 720p or 1440p, i get the exact same FPS as soon as i trigger 3D Vision. Which means that they are CPU bound and, for some reasons, games tend to become CPU bound when 3D Vision is turned on.
It is not true for all games (ie Witcher 3's scalability is perfect), but, i start to believe that current games will only be playable at 60fps in 10 years, when CPUs will have made significant progress.
[/quote]
Well thats a good thing 1440P 3D isn't anymore taxing than 1080p[/quote]
That just means that for this game in 3D, that you are still CPU bound, and that you'd need to go even higher in resolution or settings to move the bottleneck to the GPU.
These things are very game/driver/hardware specific, you can't just use a rule-of-thumb and be done. It varies wildly from game to game.
But for GTA5 in particular, 1440p will be about the same in performance, as long as you have a good GPU. If you get down to something like a GTX 780, probably GPU will be the bottleneck instead of CPU.
Pirateguybrush said:To throw another data point into the mix, I benchmarked before and after I took my CPU from 3.5 to 4.7 - no performance change whatsoever (I was benching in 2D though).
In 2D, all cores are active, which can push the bottleneck back to the GPU. So, any 2D benchmarks are misleading for this game in particular.
clammy said:
Ixo said:Rise of the Tomb Raider
GTA V
Project Cars
These 3 games, whether i play them in 720p or 1440p, i get the exact same FPS as soon as i trigger 3D Vision. Which means that they are CPU bound and, for some reasons, games tend to become CPU bound when 3D Vision is turned on.
It is not true for all games (ie Witcher 3's scalability is perfect), but, i start to believe that current games will only be playable at 60fps in 10 years, when CPUs will have made significant progress.
Well thats a good thing 1440P 3D isn't anymore taxing than 1080p
That just means that for this game in 3D, that you are still CPU bound, and that you'd need to go even higher in resolution or settings to move the bottleneck to the GPU.
These things are very game/driver/hardware specific, you can't just use a rule-of-thumb and be done. It varies wildly from game to game.
But for GTA5 in particular, 1440p will be about the same in performance, as long as you have a good GPU. If you get down to something like a GTX 780, probably GPU will be the bottleneck instead of CPU.
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As bo3b above mentioned, memory speed has become important for gaming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er_Fuz54U0Y&feature=youtu.be
Aside from GTA5:
IMHO, the best gains I have seen for gaming have been from going SLi.
A year from now, Cannon Lake will be out, which is Intel's die shrink. It should ring with it a decent IPC gain compared to ~5% per generation we have been having for the last 7 years.
If I were you, I would go 1080 now (or Titan XP if you can afford it!) now, and in a year's time upgrade to Cannon Lake, which should result in ~55% single core performance increase compared to 2500K @ 4.5GHz. We're in a similar boat. Then you can get another card for SLi. This would be a pretty good upgrade path.
As bo3b above mentioned, memory speed has become important for gaming:
;feature=youtu.be
Aside from GTA5:
IMHO, the best gains I have seen for gaming have been from going SLi.
A year from now, Cannon Lake will be out, which is Intel's die shrink. It should ring with it a decent IPC gain compared to ~5% per generation we have been having for the last 7 years.
If I were you, I would go 1080 now (or Titan XP if you can afford it!) now, and in a year's time upgrade to Cannon Lake, which should result in ~55% single core performance increase compared to 2500K @ 4.5GHz. We're in a similar boat. Then you can get another card for SLi. This would be a pretty good upgrade path.
Windows 10 64-bit, Intel 7700K @ 5.1GHz, 16GB 3600MHz CL15 DDR4 RAM, 2x GTX 1080 SLI, Asus Maximus IX Hero, Sound Blaster ZxR, PCIe Quad SSD, Oculus Rift CV1, DLP Link PGD-150 glasses, ViewSonic PJD6531w 3D DLP Projector @ 1280x800 120Hz native / 2560x1600 120Hz DSR 3D Gaming.
To add to the mix, I upgraded recently. Went from an I5-2500K 4.2Ghz with SLI 970, to a I7-6700k with SLI 1070.
I game at all sorts of resolutions on all sorts of screens, from 720p projector 3d up to surround and 4k.
I'm well aware of all the benchmarks showing small gains from CPU upgrades and I waited and waited for so long before I made the jump.
Now this was not a cheap upgrade and it 100% depends on the games you play, however, it's a night and day upgrade for me. I play a lot of Mechwarrior online and my old rig although decent actually used to struggle. Now I can quite literally run it in surround with maximum everything, no stuttering, no slowdowns. That is a game that is renowned for CPU bottlenecks, particularly with particle effects.
I was going to do a load of benchmarking before and after but I ended up just building the new machine and carrying on, so I can't objectively justify my spending, but gaming is my main hobby and I'm very happy with my machine now.
To add to the mix, I upgraded recently. Went from an I5-2500K 4.2Ghz with SLI 970, to a I7-6700k with SLI 1070.
I game at all sorts of resolutions on all sorts of screens, from 720p projector 3d up to surround and 4k.
I'm well aware of all the benchmarks showing small gains from CPU upgrades and I waited and waited for so long before I made the jump.
Now this was not a cheap upgrade and it 100% depends on the games you play, however, it's a night and day upgrade for me. I play a lot of Mechwarrior online and my old rig although decent actually used to struggle. Now I can quite literally run it in surround with maximum everything, no stuttering, no slowdowns. That is a game that is renowned for CPU bottlenecks, particularly with particle effects.
I was going to do a load of benchmarking before and after but I ended up just building the new machine and carrying on, so I can't objectively justify my spending, but gaming is my main hobby and I'm very happy with my machine now.
GTX 1070 SLI, I7-6700k ~ 4.4Ghz, 3x BenQ XL2420T, BenQ TK800, LG 55EG960V (3D OLED), Samsung 850 EVO SSD, Crucial M4 SSD, 3D vision kit, Xpand x104 glasses, Corsair HX1000i, Win 10 pro 64/Win 7 64https://www.3dmark.com/fs/9529310
[quote="rustyk"]To add to the mix, I upgraded recently. Went from an I5-2500K 4.2Ghz with SLI 970, to a I7-6700k with SLI 1070.
I game at all sorts of resolutions on all sorts of screens, from 720p projector 3d up to surround and 4k.
I'm well aware of all the benchmarks showing small gains from CPU upgrades and I waited and waited for so long before I made the jump.
Now this was not a cheap upgrade and it 100% depends on the games you play, however, it's a night and day upgrade for me. I play a lot of Mechwarrior online and my old rig although decent actually used to struggle. Now I can quite literally run it in surround with maximum everything, no stuttering, no slowdowns. That is a game that is renowned for CPU bottlenecks, particularly with particle effects.
I was going to do a load of benchmarking before and after but I ended up just building the new machine and carrying on, so I can't objectively justify my spending, but gaming is my main hobby and I'm very happy with my machine now.
[/quote]
Do you own GTA5?
Can you try it with all advanced settings off, DOF OFF.
FXAA only, normal grass and everything else max?
Would love to see what kinda FPS you get.
rustyk said:To add to the mix, I upgraded recently. Went from an I5-2500K 4.2Ghz with SLI 970, to a I7-6700k with SLI 1070.
I game at all sorts of resolutions on all sorts of screens, from 720p projector 3d up to surround and 4k.
I'm well aware of all the benchmarks showing small gains from CPU upgrades and I waited and waited for so long before I made the jump.
Now this was not a cheap upgrade and it 100% depends on the games you play, however, it's a night and day upgrade for me. I play a lot of Mechwarrior online and my old rig although decent actually used to struggle. Now I can quite literally run it in surround with maximum everything, no stuttering, no slowdowns. That is a game that is renowned for CPU bottlenecks, particularly with particle effects.
I was going to do a load of benchmarking before and after but I ended up just building the new machine and carrying on, so I can't objectively justify my spending, but gaming is my main hobby and I'm very happy with my machine now.
Do you own GTA5?
Can you try it with all advanced settings off, DOF OFF.
FXAA only, normal grass and everything else max?
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[quote="rustyk"]To add to the mix, I upgraded recently. Went from an I5-2500K 4.2Ghz with SLI 970, to a I7-6700k with SLI 1070.[/quote]I'm jealous... :)
[quote]I play a lot of Mechwarrior online and my old rig although decent actually used to struggle. Now I can quite literally run it in surround with maximum everything, no stuttering, no slowdowns.[/quote]I'm even more jealous... :D
I also play, add me as a friend if you want. Never saw your name, unless you use another name?
I also run a i5-2500K and was recently asking on a forum if anyone else was in the same boat and about to upgrade. I'm on the fence, or was, since I think I will wait now. Like you I play MWO quite often and have no problem so not sure what benefit I would get to upgrade. There is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mod I'd like to play that I cannot now because it's way too slow so upgrading would make that possible I guess but I think I can wait a little more, anyway the mod is not fully ready and guy is also working on a 64bits engine.
rustyk said:To add to the mix, I upgraded recently. Went from an I5-2500K 4.2Ghz with SLI 970, to a I7-6700k with SLI 1070.
I'm jealous... :)
I play a lot of Mechwarrior online and my old rig although decent actually used to struggle. Now I can quite literally run it in surround with maximum everything, no stuttering, no slowdowns.
I'm even more jealous... :D
I also play, add me as a friend if you want. Never saw your name, unless you use another name?
I also run a i5-2500K and was recently asking on a forum if anyone else was in the same boat and about to upgrade. I'm on the fence, or was, since I think I will wait now. Like you I play MWO quite often and have no problem so not sure what benefit I would get to upgrade. There is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mod I'd like to play that I cannot now because it's way too slow so upgrading would make that possible I guess but I think I can wait a little more, anyway the mod is not fully ready and guy is also working on a 64bits engine.
@clammy
I have close to the exactly same system as rustyk except the 1070 SLI I have single 1080. Rustyk is right on other games you can fell difference but on GTA 5 I think no matter what hardware you have you be locked @ 40 - 45 frames in 1080P.
To be honest upgrading your other games will run better but GTA 5 for some in 3D performance is very poor but still playable.
I would be very surprise if rustyk benchmarks are above 50 FPS.
Also since Intel is the only CPU right now to play games this is probably the reason only 5 to 7 percent increase each generation. As someone else said I hope AMD Zen is really good.
I have close to the exactly same system as rustyk except the 1070 SLI I have single 1080. Rustyk is right on other games you can fell difference but on GTA 5 I think no matter what hardware you have you be locked @ 40 - 45 frames in 1080P.
To be honest upgrading your other games will run better but GTA 5 for some in 3D performance is very poor but still playable.
I would be very surprise if rustyk benchmarks are above 50 FPS.
Also since Intel is the only CPU right now to play games this is probably the reason only 5 to 7 percent increase each generation. As someone else said I hope AMD Zen is really good.
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[quote="Rhialto"][quote="rustyk"]To add to the mix, I upgraded recently. Went from an I5-2500K 4.2Ghz with SLI 970, to a I7-6700k with SLI 1070.[/quote]I'm jealous... :)
[quote]I play a lot of Mechwarrior online and my old rig although decent actually used to struggle. Now I can quite literally run it in surround with maximum everything, no stuttering, no slowdowns.[/quote]I'm even more jealous... :D
I also play, add me as a friend if you want. Never saw your name, unless you use another name?
I also run a i5-2500K and was recently asking on a forum if anyone else was in the same boat and about to upgrade. I'm on the fence, or was, since I think I will wait now. Like you I play MWO quite often and have no problem so not sure what benefit I would get to upgrade. There is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mod I'd like to play that I cannot now because it's way too slow so upgrading would make that possible I guess but I think I can wait a little more, anyway the mod is not fully ready and guy is also working on a 64bits engine.[/quote]
I'll add you, don't remember seeing you either but maybe that's good because it means more people play the game than I thought!
Happy to run GTA5 benchmarks at some point but the others are probably right, it seems to be a special case.
I don't regret my upgrade at all, I just expected (*edit* hoped) skylake to be quite a lot better than it was. Maybe if Zen is good it will push Intel and we'll all benefit again.
You're probably facing the same value proposition argument that I was and I don't know if it's worth it for you.
What I do know, is that I was saving for a new car but decided that since I play games nearly every day I was better off spending the money on my pc.
rustyk said:To add to the mix, I upgraded recently. Went from an I5-2500K 4.2Ghz with SLI 970, to a I7-6700k with SLI 1070.
I'm jealous... :)
I play a lot of Mechwarrior online and my old rig although decent actually used to struggle. Now I can quite literally run it in surround with maximum everything, no stuttering, no slowdowns.
I'm even more jealous... :D
I also play, add me as a friend if you want. Never saw your name, unless you use another name?
I also run a i5-2500K and was recently asking on a forum if anyone else was in the same boat and about to upgrade. I'm on the fence, or was, since I think I will wait now. Like you I play MWO quite often and have no problem so not sure what benefit I would get to upgrade. There is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mod I'd like to play that I cannot now because it's way too slow so upgrading would make that possible I guess but I think I can wait a little more, anyway the mod is not fully ready and guy is also working on a 64bits engine.
I'll add you, don't remember seeing you either but maybe that's good because it means more people play the game than I thought!
Happy to run GTA5 benchmarks at some point but the others are probably right, it seems to be a special case.
I don't regret my upgrade at all, I just expected (*edit* hoped) skylake to be quite a lot better than it was. Maybe if Zen is good it will push Intel and we'll all benefit again.
You're probably facing the same value proposition argument that I was and I don't know if it's worth it for you.
What I do know, is that I was saving for a new car but decided that since I play games nearly every day I was better off spending the money on my pc.
GTX 1070 SLI, I7-6700k ~ 4.4Ghz, 3x BenQ XL2420T, BenQ TK800, LG 55EG960V (3D OLED), Samsung 850 EVO SSD, Crucial M4 SSD, 3D vision kit, Xpand x104 glasses, Corsair HX1000i, Win 10 pro 64/Win 7 64https://www.3dmark.com/fs/9529310
Yeah GTA5 is a pretty bad metric imo, It's almost impossible to get very good performance out of it in 3D
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GTA V
Project Cars
These 3 games, whether i play them in 720p or 1440p, i get the exact same FPS as soon as i trigger 3D Vision. Which means that they are CPU bound and, for some reasons, games tend to become CPU bound when 3D Vision is turned on.
It is not true for all games (ie Witcher 3's scalability is perfect), but, i start to believe that current games will only be playable at 60fps in 10 years, when CPUs will have made significant progress.
Well thats a good thing 1440P 3D isn't anymore taxing than 1080p
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In 2D, all cores are active, which can push the bottleneck back to the GPU. So, any 2D benchmarks are misleading for this game in particular.
That just means that for this game in 3D, that you are still CPU bound, and that you'd need to go even higher in resolution or settings to move the bottleneck to the GPU.
These things are very game/driver/hardware specific, you can't just use a rule-of-thumb and be done. It varies wildly from game to game.
But for GTA5 in particular, 1440p will be about the same in performance, as long as you have a good GPU. If you get down to something like a GTX 780, probably GPU will be the bottleneck instead of CPU.
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Latest 3Dmigoto Release
Bo3b's School for ShaderHackers
;feature=youtu.be
Aside from GTA5:
IMHO, the best gains I have seen for gaming have been from going SLi.
A year from now, Cannon Lake will be out, which is Intel's die shrink. It should ring with it a decent IPC gain compared to ~5% per generation we have been having for the last 7 years.
If I were you, I would go 1080 now (or Titan XP if you can afford it!) now, and in a year's time upgrade to Cannon Lake, which should result in ~55% single core performance increase compared to 2500K @ 4.5GHz. We're in a similar boat. Then you can get another card for SLi. This would be a pretty good upgrade path.
Windows 10 64-bit, Intel 7700K @ 5.1GHz, 16GB 3600MHz CL15 DDR4 RAM, 2x GTX 1080 SLI, Asus Maximus IX Hero, Sound Blaster ZxR, PCIe Quad SSD, Oculus Rift CV1, DLP Link PGD-150 glasses, ViewSonic PJD6531w 3D DLP Projector @ 1280x800 120Hz native / 2560x1600 120Hz DSR 3D Gaming.
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I game at all sorts of resolutions on all sorts of screens, from 720p projector 3d up to surround and 4k.
I'm well aware of all the benchmarks showing small gains from CPU upgrades and I waited and waited for so long before I made the jump.
Now this was not a cheap upgrade and it 100% depends on the games you play, however, it's a night and day upgrade for me. I play a lot of Mechwarrior online and my old rig although decent actually used to struggle. Now I can quite literally run it in surround with maximum everything, no stuttering, no slowdowns. That is a game that is renowned for CPU bottlenecks, particularly with particle effects.
I was going to do a load of benchmarking before and after but I ended up just building the new machine and carrying on, so I can't objectively justify my spending, but gaming is my main hobby and I'm very happy with my machine now.
GTX 1070 SLI, I7-6700k ~ 4.4Ghz, 3x BenQ XL2420T, BenQ TK800, LG 55EG960V (3D OLED), Samsung 850 EVO SSD, Crucial M4 SSD, 3D vision kit, Xpand x104 glasses, Corsair HX1000i, Win 10 pro 64/Win 7 64https://www.3dmark.com/fs/9529310
Do you own GTA5?
Can you try it with all advanced settings off, DOF OFF.
FXAA only, normal grass and everything else max?
Would love to see what kinda FPS you get.
Gaming Rig 1
i7 5820K 3.3ghz (Stock Clock)
GTX 1080 Founders Edition (Stock Clock)
16GB DDR4 2400 RAM
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My new build
Asus Maximus X Hero Z370
MSI Gaming X 1080Ti (2100 mhz OC Watercooled)
8700k (4.7ghz OC Watercooled)
16gb DDR4 3000 Ram
500GB SAMSUNG 860 EVO SERIES SSD M.2
I'm even more jealous... :D
I also play, add me as a friend if you want. Never saw your name, unless you use another name?
I also run a i5-2500K and was recently asking on a forum if anyone else was in the same boat and about to upgrade. I'm on the fence, or was, since I think I will wait now. Like you I play MWO quite often and have no problem so not sure what benefit I would get to upgrade. There is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mod I'd like to play that I cannot now because it's way too slow so upgrading would make that possible I guess but I think I can wait a little more, anyway the mod is not fully ready and guy is also working on a 64bits engine.
3D Vision must live! NVIDIA, don't let us down!
I have close to the exactly same system as rustyk except the 1070 SLI I have single 1080. Rustyk is right on other games you can fell difference but on GTA 5 I think no matter what hardware you have you be locked @ 40 - 45 frames in 1080P.
To be honest upgrading your other games will run better but GTA 5 for some in 3D performance is very poor but still playable.
I would be very surprise if rustyk benchmarks are above 50 FPS.
Also since Intel is the only CPU right now to play games this is probably the reason only 5 to 7 percent increase each generation. As someone else said I hope AMD Zen is really good.
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I'll add you, don't remember seeing you either but maybe that's good because it means more people play the game than I thought!
Happy to run GTA5 benchmarks at some point but the others are probably right, it seems to be a special case.
I don't regret my upgrade at all, I just expected (*edit* hoped) skylake to be quite a lot better than it was. Maybe if Zen is good it will push Intel and we'll all benefit again.
You're probably facing the same value proposition argument that I was and I don't know if it's worth it for you.
What I do know, is that I was saving for a new car but decided that since I play games nearly every day I was better off spending the money on my pc.
GTX 1070 SLI, I7-6700k ~ 4.4Ghz, 3x BenQ XL2420T, BenQ TK800, LG 55EG960V (3D OLED), Samsung 850 EVO SSD, Crucial M4 SSD, 3D vision kit, Xpand x104 glasses, Corsair HX1000i, Win 10 pro 64/Win 7 64https://www.3dmark.com/fs/9529310
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Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3L 1600MHz, 4x8gb
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
i7-4790K CPU 4.8Ghz stable overclock.
16 GB RAM Corsair
EVGA 1080TI SLI
Samsung SSD 840Pro
ASUS Z97-WS
3D Surround ASUS Rog Swift PG278Q(R), 2x PG278Q (yes it works)
Obutto R3volution.
Windows 10 pro 64x (Windows 7 Dual boot)
6700k
1080 GTX
Still haven't decided on which 1440p 3D Vision capable monitor
Gaming Rig 1
i7 5820K 3.3ghz (Stock Clock)
GTX 1080 Founders Edition (Stock Clock)
16GB DDR4 2400 RAM
512 SAMSUNG 840 PRO
Gaming Rig 2
My new build
Asus Maximus X Hero Z370
MSI Gaming X 1080Ti (2100 mhz OC Watercooled)
8700k (4.7ghz OC Watercooled)
16gb DDR4 3000 Ram
500GB SAMSUNG 860 EVO SERIES SSD M.2