speed-of-heat Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 (edited) Hi Guys, I'm considering my next hardware upgrade, and basically on my budget im split between either a graphics card upgrade (I currently have a 1070Ti) to an 1080Ti or a Processor upgrade (i5-6600k), I dont want to upgrade my MB, which means a i5 7600k or i7 7700k? Which one which choice would give me the better performance improvement Processor 6600k to 7600k Processor i5 6600k to i7 7700k Graphics card 1070ti to 1080ti? Edited July 11, 2019 by speed-of-heat SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware Intel Corei7-12700KF @ 5.1/5.3p & 3.8e GHz, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Dell S2716DG, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svsmokey Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Pushing the Odyssey's pixel count , my money would be on the 1080ti . I assume VAT considerations would dis-allow a like-performance 2070 super new vs a used 1080ti . 9700k @ stock , Aorus Pro Z390 wifi , 32gb 3200 mhz CL16 , 1tb EVO 970 , MSI RX 6800XT Gaming X TRIO , Seasonic Prime 850w Gold , Coolermaster H500m , Noctua NH-D15S , CH Pro throttle and T50CM2/WarBrD base on Foxxmounts , CH pedals , Reverb G2v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed-of-heat Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 I was also wondering about a 2070 super, as well but I can get a 1080ti for 350-400GBP and the 2070 super clocks in at about 550+, as I dont play any games that supports ray tracing … it's money for functions I wont use and less (but faster) RAM... I couldn't work out if it was enough of an edge to be worth the money vs. just being "newer" tech SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware Intel Corei7-12700KF @ 5.1/5.3p & 3.8e GHz, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Dell S2716DG, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quekel Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I would hold the upgrade and save some more to eventually get a new MB with the newest slots for further upgrades, afraid you wont see that much of an increase.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellcat Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 With those choices I'd go Graphics card 1070ti to 1080ti ....I went from 1080 >1080Ti and saw a difference ...your mileage may vary. i7-9700K @ 5.0 l MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Plus MB l 32GB DDR4 2400 Ram l Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB M.2 l EVGA 3080 FTW l Win10 Pro l WarBRD/Warthog Hotas l VKB MkIV rudder Pedals l Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed-of-heat Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 so I have been doing some perf monitoring , and the graphics card does seem to be the current bottle neck with a utilisation of 97% on RAM and 80-95% on processor, cpu utilisation rarely seems to take a single core above 40%... so I think the GPU route seems to be most likely to get a bang for my buck as it were SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware Intel Corei7-12700KF @ 5.1/5.3p & 3.8e GHz, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Dell S2716DG, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strong05 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 I have a 6700k and also looked at upgrading to a 7600k. Not a whole lot of improvement here, maybe 10% so I passed and went for the 1080ti (from a 1070). I think it was the right move. You won't see CPU bottlenecks the way windows 10 distributes the load across cores. Look at your GPU utilization and if it drops to below ~80% then you know it's a CPU bottleneck. I've seen my GPU utilization drop to 50% (frames at 30fps) or less when looking at a crowded airfield, and as soon as I look at the sky the GPU utilization jumps up to 99% (frames jump up to 70 fps). 5800X3d, 32GB DDR4@3400, 6800 xt, Reverb G2, Gunfighter/TMWH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaMike Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Near as I can tell, CPU and GPU render times are highly correlated for everything other than anti-aliasing. So, if dialing down Msaa and pd helps, you probably need more GPU. Otoh if everything is fine until you log in to a busy server, and dialing down your settings doesn't help, you probably need more CPU. If you can only do one, you have to figure out what you want to accomplish mainly. Ryzen 5600X (stock), GBX570, 32Gb RAM, AMD 6900XT (reference), G2, WInwing Orion HOTAS, T-flight rudder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed-of-heat Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 I got quite a significant improvement in sustained throughput by dialling back the aliasing and PD, and bought a second hand EVGA 1080ti FTW, I will let this thread know when I have it installed and I have some benchmarks SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware Intel Corei7-12700KF @ 5.1/5.3p & 3.8e GHz, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Dell S2716DG, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed-of-heat Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 so by upgrading to the 1080ti, I get a pretty constant 45 fps in most settings, where before I got 40-42, thats without over clocking the card , the card utilisation at about 70-75% shows me that any further improvements would only be achieved by upgrading the CPU SYSTEM SPECS: Hardware Intel Corei7-12700KF @ 5.1/5.3p & 3.8e GHz, 64Gb RAM, 4090 FE, Dell S2716DG, Virpil T50CM3 Throttle, WinWIng Orion 2 & F-16EX + MFG Crosswinds V2, Varjo Aero SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 11, VoiceAttack & VAICOM PRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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