Hi guys,
I built my current machine in 2020.
It's a 5600X CPU on an Aorus Pro AX Motherboard with 32 gb of DDR4 3600 RAM.
Chip is Noctua air cooled.
I have a couple of Samsung M.2 SSD's, and a 2TB platter drive.
An 850 watt Gold rated power supply. Current GPU is a reference 6800 XT.
I play games in 4k on a Samsung Neo G8 32" VA display, it refreshes up to 240hz.
I don't go in for competitive games though, I'm more of an open world, 3D RPG player. Big pretty.
I was getting high 50's fps in Cyberpunk with 85% scaling (still looked better than running it in 1440p imo);
fortunately I'm not that sensitive to frame rates, but a comfortable 80FPS at full UHD in Cyberpunk would be nice.
I'm looking forward to Starfield too, of course.
The worst performing game I regularly play is Anno 1800, which gets around 40 fps on average. It's maxed out, graphics wise though.
I guess my question is, am I CPU bottlenecked at 4k with the 5600X? A 5800X3D is pretty affordable to me right now, and Starfield looks CPU heavy too.
Or will I see more improvement by going to a 7900 XTX? (NVIDIA might be proposition elsewhere, but here in Australia there seems to a mysterious "NVIDIA tax" that I refuse to pay, plus ray tracing is not yet a real consideration for me)
I'm thinking of moving to AM5 in a year or two.
Thanks in advance.
