Recently I have been thinking of upgrading my computer so that I could get better FPS in games such as GTA5 and Battlefield 4. However I always thought that there was no sense in getting a better GPU because I thought my CPU was bad and if I wanted to see a big difference in games I would have to replace most of the parts in my PC.
So I did a little test, I ran Heaven Benchmark 4.0 and while the test was running I had GPU-Z and the windows task manager open. The part I found interesting was that while the load on the GPU was 100% almost all the time according to GPU-Z with around 30-45 FPS on average according to Heaven, the load in the task manager for CPU usage never went over 45% and was mostly around 20-30%.
Now Im a tottal beginner when it comes to benchmarking and performance optimisation, so I wanted to know what some of the more experienced people thought about this. Should I buy a better GPU and if yes how good of a GPU does it make sense to buy for the CPU I have.
I was thinking of buying an AMD RX480 or a GeForce GTX 1060. Also how much of a performance difference while playing games would there be between a RX480 4Gb compared to the 8Gb or a GTX 1060 3Gb compared to the 6Gb version.
My CPU, GPU, RAM and motherboard:
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 650 Ti 2Gb, 128Bit Bus, 1033MHz GPU clock, 1350Mhz Memory clock
CPU: AMD FX-6100 (6-core; 3.3GHz)
RAM: GoodRam 2x4Gb
Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-D3, socket AM3+ (rev. 1.4)
So I did a little test, I ran Heaven Benchmark 4.0 and while the test was running I had GPU-Z and the windows task manager open. The part I found interesting was that while the load on the GPU was 100% almost all the time according to GPU-Z with around 30-45 FPS on average according to Heaven, the load in the task manager for CPU usage never went over 45% and was mostly around 20-30%.
Now Im a tottal beginner when it comes to benchmarking and performance optimisation, so I wanted to know what some of the more experienced people thought about this. Should I buy a better GPU and if yes how good of a GPU does it make sense to buy for the CPU I have.
I was thinking of buying an AMD RX480 or a GeForce GTX 1060. Also how much of a performance difference while playing games would there be between a RX480 4Gb compared to the 8Gb or a GTX 1060 3Gb compared to the 6Gb version.
My CPU, GPU, RAM and motherboard:
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 650 Ti 2Gb, 128Bit Bus, 1033MHz GPU clock, 1350Mhz Memory clock
CPU: AMD FX-6100 (6-core; 3.3GHz)
RAM: GoodRam 2x4Gb
Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-D3, socket AM3+ (rev. 1.4)