For gaming this is completely viable. I am running a 5070, an 5950x and 64 Gigs of DDR4 and play on 1440p, and haven’t yet had any title which i couldn’t run maxed out or close to it in graphics quality. Without Framegen, i am pretty much always at least above 60 FPS in the most demanding titles on the market, which framegen can then push to a comfortable 90+ if wanted. Anything a bit older or simply not so demanding i normally have to limit the frame rate so i do not waste a bunch of power.
have 3950x and couldn’t find a game that would utilize more than 25%
Unfortunately most games are largely single threaded - 25% means nothing if single thread bottlenecks. I had 3950x and it was becoming bottleneck above 90-100 fps in cyberpunk 2077. Which is fine in most cases. Just don’t bundle it with 5090 because card won’t be fully utilized.
I really loved that CPU for ECO mode. 65W, no in game slow down, and ~20% slower in all 16 core workloads. Silent, great for overnight work like mass 4k footage transcoding. IMO best semi professional CPU of its time.
Yeah, it actually is. It’s better performancewise than my old 3070Ti (mainly because 8G VRAM nowadays really tanks performance at higher resolutions) but i do not have the necessary cash to upgrade in the current market.
I do a shitton of heavy compression/decompression, which is why i opted for the 16-core one (because this is a really good use case for it, and it is the maximum my mainboard supports either way - that took me flashing my bios, then replace the cpu, and then flash again immediately after to ensure everything worked fine - can’t even place the old CPU back in, and no way to downgrade) - if taking the fact into account that this platform is pretty old, it still is in the upper middle part of the pack in gamersnexus benchmarks regarding these operations, and i haven’t had any game yet that really was cpu limited outside of how long turns take in strategy games.
For gaming this is completely viable. I am running a 5070, an 5950x and 64 Gigs of DDR4 and play on 1440p, and haven’t yet had any title which i couldn’t run maxed out or close to it in graphics quality. Without Framegen, i am pretty much always at least above 60 FPS in the most demanding titles on the market, which framegen can then push to a comfortable 90+ if wanted. Anything a bit older or simply not so demanding i normally have to limit the frame rate so i do not waste a bunch of power.
I think gpu would be the bottleneck for you. I have 3950x and couldn’t find a game that would utilize more than 25% of that beast.
Maybe because I still run 2080 super which is fairly good with 4k gaming (with 125% frame buffer scaling so technically 3072×1728).
Unfortunately most games are largely single threaded - 25% means nothing if single thread bottlenecks. I had 3950x and it was becoming bottleneck above 90-100 fps in cyberpunk 2077. Which is fine in most cases. Just don’t bundle it with 5090 because card won’t be fully utilized.
I really loved that CPU for ECO mode. 65W, no in game slow down, and ~20% slower in all 16 core workloads. Silent, great for overnight work like mass 4k footage transcoding. IMO best semi professional CPU of its time.
Really depends on the game. SupCom, EnNatRev, Anno1800, etc
Yeah, it actually is. It’s better performancewise than my old 3070Ti (mainly because 8G VRAM nowadays really tanks performance at higher resolutions) but i do not have the necessary cash to upgrade in the current market.
I do a shitton of heavy compression/decompression, which is why i opted for the 16-core one (because this is a really good use case for it, and it is the maximum my mainboard supports either way - that took me flashing my bios, then replace the cpu, and then flash again immediately after to ensure everything worked fine - can’t even place the old CPU back in, and no way to downgrade) - if taking the fact into account that this platform is pretty old, it still is in the upper middle part of the pack in gamersnexus benchmarks regarding these operations, and i haven’t had any game yet that really was cpu limited outside of how long turns take in strategy games.