Is the future i7 or i5

Like I said I never meant to say a stock 6600/K could not bottleneck .............but my 1920x1080 won't be doing it. hehehe
( obviously with big resolutions, multi screen and multi card systems that is another story.......... I did say as much )

For instance there are some games out there at even 2560 Res put a huge stress on GTX980Ti
In that circumstance you need every rpm of CPU power you can muster. hehehe

All I know mate is what my specs are below and my rFactor2 settings GTX970 G1 is fantastic @3.9GHz
BUTTS p I run reduced shadows , no HDR and no taxing NVi settings
THEN I run blurry crappy low latency 60Hz monitor. p
It kills me when I have more then enough fps my settings for 120Hz p

I have even tested it up to 44 cars something I could not even hazard to do with my 2500K@4.5Gz/5Ghz and GTX670 OC

44 ran as smooth as my room with 8 cars in it, all with a 4690@3.9GHz

If you asked me would I drop a GTX980Ti G1 in those lowly specs I have below, YES mate !!! indeed, indeed !!! lol

P.S.
I can't get over how good the 9xx series looks compared to GTX670 visually in rF2, both W7 and W10, I do not use NV Inspector anymore.

 

I made some edits in my previous post whilst you were posting your last. I misunderstood you.

 

I have only one screen at the moment, as I do not at the moment have access to my triple monitor rig. ( All 1080p )
My old gtx970 single 1080p monitor with old spa, 16 cars, with me in last place at the start line and all setting set at high, FPS is 115 with cpu clock at 3.4ghz. By clocking to 4.2ghz it goes to 135.

Changing to a gtx 980ti at 4.2ghz my FPS IS 130.

The only time the gtx 980ti gets going is when i am well into the first lap when FPS goes above 400. The gtx 970 would be at 270 FPS at the same place. This is were in the race that the cpu seems least stressed.

The difference is most noticeable as i crank all the setting to max the gtx 980ti almost does not notice unless the cpu starts to get to 100% which seems to happen more as i crank up the settings. Its is though the cpu is the main problem with a gtx980ti this was far less noticeable with the gtx970 and less so again with my gtx580.

I am not trying to suggest anything from my random observations, just that i at first decided to stick with the i7 2600k, but when i observed the above it got me thinking about an upgrade to the cpu and mother board.

Thats were the i5 and i7 question sprang from.

 

Glad I'm not alone... DD - DecipherDurge

 

So let me get this right, your GTX980Ti @ 4.2Ghz is 5fps slower then your GTX970.


Historic Cars at Day ( I assume ) at Belgium is not what I would call a taxing ISI test, surely something like mixed GT Sliverstone night would show a better gap between the 2 cards ?

 

I am sure that's a perfectly valid statement which i must agree with, but it was just a check i made before putting in the gtx 980ti after removing the gtx970.
I had assumed the gtx would just fly with the FPS and was shocked to find it virtually the same.
I just read what i wrote i meant to put 135 for the gtx980ti , miss read my results that i scribbled down.

 

I suppose i am trying to suggest that at the start of the race the cpu is effecting the FPS and not the gpu.

 

lol

 

I can only say I rather have a i5 and GTX980Ti then a i7 and GTX970 .....if I was building on a fixed budget to use 2560 max monitor


1. It is faster.

What you see here spread over 20 games ...........( I never ever directed comments specifically towards rF2 )

The more Resolution the GTX980Ti pulls away 23 -26 -31 percent

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980_Ti/31.html

You simply cant gain 31% with a CPU swap.


2. Later ......if I decide to upgrade to a i7 I have done $325 on a i5, if I decide to upgrade to GTX980Ti I have done $539 on a GTX970



3. If you adhere and base everything on this................ of course you would get a GTX970 reading that.

" Performance per Dollar "
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980_Ti/33.html



BUT lol look at DD's dollar for dollar systems above ($16 difference)
http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/27371-Is-the-future-i7-or-i5?p=402111&viewfull=1#post402111

It is clear to anyone even rats up the drainpipe the GTX980Ti build with slower CPU would beat the i7-GTX970, even in Battlefield the GPU makes up for more then the difference gained from hyper threading, it is plain logic .........so starting from the same cost point one is clearly the " better Performance per Dollar " choice.

Sure , sure I could have specced a much cheaper i7 build , less cooling, less board, less memory ......No Matter lol you still won't fit in a GTX980Ti for the same money ($1,750 Australian ) ! hehe

 

Provided i've not misunderstood you again, but you can at least in rf2 with a 980Ti @1080p if you're upgrading from a pre i5 3000 series cpu.

 

lol




Good test GTX970/980/Ti - i5/i7 all users compare in DSR 2.25 and 4.00

Yeah same gen i5 to i7 I meant.

Battlefield clock for clock gets 10 fps more with i7 ? .... a lot for sure but not when you compare i7-970 vs i5-980Ti builds for the same cost.

 

Ah ok, yes, gotcha.

 

Yes i7 5820k or better because it is much faster CPU.
i7 5820k vs i5 4690k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytFskvhTNJo

 

Also D people need to consider the gains they get from overclocked 2500/2600

My 2500K did 5Ghz @1.38v stress tests 2 days I turned in down to 4.8GHz then settled on 4.5Ghz at much nicer 1.28v

My point being 2500K@4.5GHz is 800Mhz so you get nice gains, with a 6700K it is 300MHz.

6600/6700 overall overclock speeds results are not quite as good overall imho on top of that they start at a higher MHz.

ie: Turbo speeds

2600K - 3.8GHz 6700K - 4.2GHz

2500K - 3.7Ghz 6600K - 3.9GHz


So my 2500K at 5Ghz was 1300MHz gain.
If a 6700K did 5.5GHz out of the box, where do I sign. lol


Of course you have to weigh up the advantages of later chipset, faster ram, SSD 4x and the rest in your given circumstance.

 

I stopped at this..........

 

PC is much more then rFactor2 isnt it?

 

Sure, in some games (such as BF4) there can be a ~10% fps difference and in others non. The cpu benchmark tests win hands down but that's not surprising. Do you consider these gains (where/when present) personally worthwhile? Also are you under the impression that such gains (~10%) will happen in rf2? And if so, what makes you think so?

 

I am not sure about rFactor2 but like it is now I think that i5 4690k and i7 5820k has same performance but remember that final build of rFactor2 is not released so we rely don`t know how it is going to bee

 

ok, that's fair enough if that's why you'd opt for the 5820k.

True, you never know, ISI could throw us a curve ball in that regard. But i don't think a "final build" is going to happen they way you might be thinking it will. "Final build" would be when ISI ceases it's continuous iterative development model for rf2, as in, when they start working on rf3.

 

Yes