Should I upgrade my GPU in my case?

Guest · Nov 3, 2013

Hello there,

I have started to notice that my computer is not in par with the requirements of latest games, and now as I tried to play Battlefield 4 I have finally come to conclusion that I need to do some upgrades to keep up with the latest games.

I am currently having a i7 920 processor, Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard and ATI Radeon 6870 GPU.

My question is that would there be any point in upgrading the GPU to a better and newer model of Radeon, or is my CPU a bottleneck, and should I invest into getting a new Processor and Motherboard instead?

I'm kind of hoping that it would be enough to just upgrade the GPU as I would not want to have to spend too much money on upgrading the computer at the moment.

Any feedback appreciated!

stickmansam · Nov 3, 2013

Your CPU should be about on par in single thread tasks with Ivy pentium IPC?
In mutlithreaded games past 3 cores usage, you should be pulling ahead of the i3's

If you are willing to OC the CPU, you should be doing fine

I think getting a 7950/760 should not be a problem

In most games, the GPU is still the main bottleneck

Guest · Nov 3, 2013

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I've already overclocked my CPU from 2.66ghz to 3.6ghz, I'll look into getting a Radeon 7950 then!

stickmansam · Nov 3, 2013

The 7950 will give you about 2-3x the performance as the 6870 in GPU bound games

3.6ghz should put you into the ball park as an low end Sandy/Ivy i5

photonboy · Nov 3, 2013

If you can afford it, my advice is one of the GTX770's:
- Asus DC2U
- MSI TF
- EVGA

There are pros and cons. AMD's main advantage is Mantle is coming for BF4, however it looks like Mantle adoption is mostly dead beyond that at least for a while since Microsoft and Sony aren't behind it.

The NVidia 770 also comes with three great games:
- Batman Arkham Origins
- Splinter Cell Blacklist
- AC4 Black Flag

Other advantages are:
- PHYSX
- Shadowplay (record at 1080p 60Hz. works great)
- G-Sync (requires new monitor, but I recommend you read about it).

*I was recommending AMD cards a little while ago, but now I'm recommending the GTX770 for this price range in large part due to the great games. If you subtract $150 from $330 that's $180 for the card.

stickmansam · Nov 3, 2013

The 7950 still has the never settle bundle for games right now (3 games) and is only $240

The 770 vs R9 280x though is different since the 770 has the game bundle advantage which I agree with you

Search

Should I upgrade my GPU in my case?

Guest

Guest

stickmansam

Splendid

Guest

Guest

stickmansam

Splendid

photonboy

Titan

stickmansam

Splendid

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page