How much has your GPU performance increased on your current platform (socket)

[HenrySomeone]

when I think of futureproof,I think of something like 8700k,not switching cpus
topped the charts when it came out,still top 3-4 gaming cpus out there after 2.5 years,good to go for another two.
better to go with one cpu and keep it.am4 is a nice way to have the option,but look at resale value for those who bought 1st/2nd gen ryzen in their prime.they can only sell at maybe 40% of the price they bought it.

Yeah, 8700k was definitely the best "futureproof" cpu recently, especially if bought in early-mid 2018, when they were routinely going for around 300$ or sometimes even less if you scored a good deal. I mean, you can pretty much sell it for the same money now, while 2700X are going for a little over 100$, not to mention the poor sods who bought 1800X at launch for 500$! Even now, though I am confident in saying that 9900k is the best futureproof cpu for gaming; obviously better than 3700x/3800x and I dare say 3900x and even 3950x as well (mind you for gaming, not other things). Before games will start to use enough threads that the latter two will start taking over (easily well over 5 years), the single thread will be too weak on both, but untill then, 9900k(s) will run supreme.

And oh, regarding the topic, I haven't really been a gamer for a number of years now, but I once rather humorously upgraded an old office PC that originally had a passive 7600gs with a gtx 580 (got it really cheaply used, was actually aiming for a 560ti) in order to play some xp era games fully maxed out at 1920x1200. The only other thing I did, was oc the cpu (E6300) to about 3,2 or 3,4 can't remember exactly (oh and yeah, obviously changed the psu). Mind you, that wasn't my primary system at the time, but still, I thought it worth mentioning. Now, 7600gs isn't in the TPU charts, but I would guess it's at around 9400gt level in which case, the upgrade to gtx 580 means just under 2000% or 20-times the performance!

 

[THEDOOMEDHELL]

Ive had an X5670 for 2 years now... its great!!!!! I can play any game on high settings and the cpu doesnt really bottleneck... however im running in ultrawide which causes my R9 290X Tri-X to suffer a bit. I mostly just wanted more FPS in very demanding titles as well as eventually getting into 4K. My 290 is not being utilized in my vegas crack so Im gettig a video editor upgrade so that I can render on OpenCL. This is why I purchase dual R9 Fury Xs (technically a fury strix 4096sp and fury x). The DirectCUIII is such a sexy gpu and its twin is just as nice in my computer... I think the future will be all red and black for this computer considering im already in that direction lol!
looking to build an interesting LAN/testbench build using an FX-8350 high leakage @5.3-5.5ghz. Anyone know what kinda GPU might be fun to side it with? As long as it doesnt weigh a TON and break on its own weight was looking at running an HD7990 if that helps understanding my price and size limits

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

After consideration this pole should have had a other vote, I swapped sockets most recently like many, but kept the same gpu and got /10% better performance

@HenrySomeone @cucker tarlson Is there really a need to turn every thread , into some kind of flame war or biased AF mines better because thread, who the F is paying $300 notes for a 8700k NOW , send a number ive something to sell that muppet.

 

[THEDOOMEDHELL]

Yeah, 8700k was definitely the best "futureproof" cpu recently, especially if bought in early-mid 2018, when they were routinely going for around 300$ or sometimes even less if you scored a good deal. I mean, you can pretty much sell it for the same money now, while 2700X are going for a little over 100$, not to mention the poor sods who bought 1800X at launch for 500$! Even now, though I am confident in saying that 9900k is the best futureproof cpu for gaming; obviously better than 3700x/3800x and I dare say 3900x and even 3950x as well (mind you for gaming, not other things). Before games will start to use enough threads that the latter two will start taking over (easily well over 5 years), the single thread will be too weak on both, but untill then, 9900k(s) will run supreme.

And oh, regarding the topic, I haven't really been a gamer for a number of years now, but I once rather humorously upgraded an old office PC that originally had a passive 7600gs with a gtx 580 (got it really cheaply used, was actually aiming for a 560ti) in order to play some xp era games fully maxed out at 1920x1200. The only other thing I did, was oc the cpu (E6300) to about 3,2 or 3,4 can't remember exactly (oh and yeah, obviously changed the psu). Mind you, that wasn't my primary system at the time, but still, I thought it worth mentioning. Now, 7600gs isn't in the TPU charts, but I would guess it's at around 9400gt level in which case, the upgrade to gtx 580 means just under 2000% or 20-times the performance!

I disagree with the Intel stuff from the beginning but the upgrade story LOL!!! Ive been somewhat recent in gaming and I started on a GTX 570 which was upgraded from an old ATI x1400 card(or something of the sort)... similar feeling XD. Eventually that system ran a GTX Titan for 2-3 years before getting an R9 290(core unlocked) as a financial liquidation of assets XD (got the card for free and then sold it for huge profit to buy the R9 before the mining stuff for 80$). I just recently upgraded to dual R9 Fury Xs mentioned in my post. LOVE those huge CPU bottlenecks in pre-built systems always makes me laugh

 

[lmille16]

Went from a GTX 760 to a 1070 Ti. Getting bottlenecked by my 3570k right now though.

 

[bonehead123]

I recently upgraded my son's rig from a Z97/4790k/Radeon 7970/8GB ddr3 to a Z390/9700K/2080ti/32GB ddr4.... long overdue so yea, big improvement in every aspect

 

[Apocalypsee]

I go through sidegrade for GPU and a downgrade of platform (GPU sidegrade from Vega56 to 1070 and Ryzen 1600 to older i5 4670k). All of this because I gone through major job relocation (new job some 400km away) so I need some extra money, trading GPU and selling Ryzen platform gives me just that.

Its almost a month and only today I finally have some time to get my PC up and running, playing some Borderlands 3 and The Outer Worlds. Both this game still runs fine on quad core 4670k at 4GHz, though there are some spikes when CPU utilization reaches peak.

 

[Countryside]

I went form an FX 8350 to an Ryzen 1200 and for the gpu HD 7950 to RX 580 so i would say the percentage pump is pretty good.

 

[Keullo-e]

Went from a GTX 760 to a 1070 Ti. Getting bottlenecked by my 3570k right now though.

Reminds when I upgraded from HD 4850 to GTX 470 when I had a Phenom II..

 

[lmille16]

Reminds when I upgraded from HD 4850 to GTX 470 when I had a Phenom II..

It's still chugging along. Borderlands 3 I can get 70 fps @1080p Medium and PUBG is about the same. Battlefield 5 is where it stuggles to get 60fps

 

[phill]

I can't remember what else I've had in the system, but I've definitely gone from a single GTX 1070 SC to a pair of GTX 1080 Ti's SC's.. Nice quick and pretty quiet I'd love to get them water cooled but meh They will just end up with my daughter and misses so waste of time water cooling

 

[Keullo-e]

It's still chugging along. Borderlands 3 I can get 70 fps @1080p Medium and PUBG is about the same. Battlefield 5 is where it stuggles to get 60fps

What's funny is that the Phenom II was still a bottleneck, after going to 2500K the GTX 470 finally was able to show its full potential

 

[Countryside]

Reminds when I upgraded from HD 4850 to GTX 470 when I had a Phenom II..

Same here before the FX 8350 is was on Phenom II if remember correctly it was the 965

 

[Frick]

What did you start with on your current platform and what did you end up with ?
Did you have to upgrade the cpu in the process ?

Have to?

 

[cucker tarlson]

Have to?

have to
need to
require

 

[Keullo-e]

Same here before the FX 8350 is was on Phenom II if remember correctly it was the 965

I had a 965 BE also, hella bad overclocker since it went only @ 3.7GHz :/

Have to?

Else I'm already drunk or I don't understand what you mean.

I get it like @cucker tarlson means that did you need to upgrade your CPU to get your GPU's full potential?

 

[cucker tarlson]

I had a 965 BE also, hella bad overclocker since it went only @ 3.7GHz :/


Else I'm already drunk or I don't understand what you mean.

I get it like @cucker tarlson means that did you need to upgrade your CPU to get your GPU's full potential?

getting a high refresh monitor would be a good example where your cpu may need an upgrade

 

[Keullo-e]

getting a high refresh monitor would be a good example where your cpu may need an upgrade

Maybe, with those older Phenoms it wouldn't be enough... the CPU bottleneck wasn't that bad when I went to med -> maximum, but still the CPU was holding back. :S

When I got a 2500K it felt like a new GPU

 

[cucker tarlson]

Maybe, with those older Phenoms it wouldn't be enough... the CPU bottleneck wasn't that bad when I went to med -> maximum, but still the CPU was holding back. :S

When I got a 2500K it felt like a new GPU

it's all game dependent
I'll give you 10 examples where a 6600k would run a 180ti fine on a 144hz screen
and 10 where a 6700k would bottleneck a 1070 at 60hz

 

[Keullo-e]

it's all game dependent
I'll give you 10 examples where a 6600k would run a 180ti fine on a 144hz screen
and 10 where a 6700k would bottleneck a 1070 at 60hz

I know your point and I can't remember the games from 2014 where I saw the difference

But I assume you got my point?

 

[dirtyferret]

Maybe, with those older Phenoms it wouldn't be enough... the CPU bottleneck wasn't that bad when I went to med -> maximum, but still the CPU was holding back. :S

When I got a 2500K it felt like a new GPU

I went from a Phenom II x4 955 @ 3.8ghz to the 2500k, even at stock settings the 2500k was just running through every game like a hot knife through butter.

 

[Rahnak]

I haven't upgraded my GPU on this platform yet (I'll probably get to it whenever Cyberpunk releases, depending on what's on the market) but on my previous platform, the 2500k I went from a 560 Ti to the RX 480 which was a sweet, sweet improvement (and much needed to play The Witcher 3). I don't know how big of a percentual improvement that was (a lot? ).

3 years later from buying the 480 and for about the same money I can't get any meaningful performance upgrades, which is very disappointing.

 

[Countryside]

I went from a Phenom II x4 955 @ 3.8ghz to the 2500k, even at stock settings the 2500k was just running through every game hot a hot knife through butter.

Yeah the 2500k was a good and a very popular cpu

 

[Remeca]

When I got my Optiplex, it had 2 Radeon HD 8490s in crossfire. I benchmarked it with and without crossfire, and it made almost no difference, so I took one out and sold it. A few months on, I now have an RX 570, a relative performance increase of 1307%. CPU is an i7-4770.

 

[freeagent]

This is my third year on Z77, after running X58 since it was new.. Anywhoo.. On this socket I started with a GTX 580 Matrix Platinum, and I upgraded to a GTX 980 Classified last winter. It was a solid upgrade. Actually, that's a bit of a fib. I actually went from my 580 MP to a 970 FTW, but a few weeks later the Classy popped up for 50 above what I spent for the 970 that I got for 150CND. That 970 replaced my 580 DCUII on my X58. That was also a solid upgrade

I paid less for those 2 cards ($350) then I could have bought a used 1060 for at the time, which was like $400. Couldn't lowball anyone because their stuff was the best. And their shit still didn't sell, meanwhile I'm still happy with the both of them.. although a little more vram would be good, and maybe a little more horsepower wouldn't hurt.. Overclocking only gets you so far.. But from what I had before? I'm not going to complain.

I did run my 580s in sli for a bit on Z77 in my Define R4, but the top GPU had no problems hitting 100c.Not only that but they were burning more coal than Germany. 2 triple slot dinosaurs who gave no effs. I gave the DCII away and kept the Matrix Platinum.

Forgot about my X58.. I had a 8800GT, 285, 295, 4890, 465, 570, dual 570, 580 dual 580, and a 970, and my 980 once to give it a taste.

/ramble