Hey everybody. I’ve had a 3080 for a while now. Was a big improvement, but I’m wondering if my old CPU is still holding me back. VR with the Reverb G2 is extremely demanding and right now I’m only able to keep 80% in-game/70% openvr dev tool.
It’s confusing to me because the game is so single-threaded dependent and I can’t find good benchmarks with this card but different CPUs.
Under consideration:
i7-11700k
32GB 3200mhz DDR4
Same gfx card, obv.
Also, does motherboard choice really matter at all as long as it’s a major manufacturer.?
If you enable devmode and display the FPS counter. Is it saying you’re limited by main thread? If so, this post might help you.
If this doesn’t work, then yes you might need to upgrade to a more powerful CPU. But the current-gen CPU has a brand new socket. So you might need to replace your motherboard as well.
But I think it’s better to wait for another month with the Xbox release and DX12. Hopefully that should improve your FPS without needing to upgrade your CPU, otherwise upgrade it as a last resort.
It sounds like FS2020 is soon going DirectX12. When that happens, CPU load for graphics will be able to spread out more. This will likely change up benchmarks pretty significantly.
Can’t say how important it will be but more cores, still with fast clocks, might even offload the GPU some.
I think DX12 is hitting soon. Might even want to wait to see how things shake out but a fast CPU with lots of cores may start paying dividends soon.
And saw your mention of virtualization. That so needs to be off for best FS performance especially with processes that bury cores so hard. All it does is take a hard running core and swap out junk like your mail program, browser, or anything else you leave running while in FS. Meanwhile, that process that desperately needs cycles just sits, swapped out because more cores, even virtual ones, can improve system responsiveness and even performance under the right workloads.
Anyone stuttering of having any performance issues should always try turning virtualization off.
Don’t get the i7-11700K. The 11th generation don’t have eight cores and ten cores anymore, just eight cores for the i7 and i9. So what did they do to differentiate the i7 from the i9? They capped the i7, or most likely put the defective i9s as dumbed down i7s.
In other words, the i9-11900K is the same as the i7-10700K (10th generation), just with the new architecture and IPC improvements. I’ve seen benches where the i7-10700K beats the i7-11700K in almost everything (yup, embarassing).
So I would get either the i9-11900K or the i5-11600K. Or the i7-10700K.
You might get some fps getting out of the 8th generation locked CPU. But don’t expect much. Most gains comes from who has the old quad cores i7s and goes to the 9th, 10th, 11th generation. Or who has Ryzen up to the 3000 series, plagued with latency problems that was fixed with the 5000 series.
I would get 3600Mhz CL16 or lower latency RAM.
Or you could wait for DDR5 and the next batch of CPUs.