FPS Benchmarks Before & After Upgrading CPU & Mobo
Just this last week, I upgraded my CPU and Motherboard, and I wanted to see what kind of difference it would make in Star Citizen.Ram, SSD, and GPU all stayed the same.
Old Setup
Intel i7-6700k @ 4ghz
Asrock Fatal1ty z170 K6 Gaming
MSI 1070ti running at stock speeds
G.Skill Ripjaw 4 DDR4 @ 2400 (32gigs)
Samsung EVO 840 SSD (SC and Win10 only)
New Setup
Intel i7-8086K @ 5ghz (it's a better binned 8700k, no difference otherwise)
EVGA Z370 Classified K
MSI 1070ti running at stock speeds
G.Skill Ripjaw 4 DDR4 @ 2400 (32gigs)
EVO 840 SSD (SC and Win10 only)
For testing, I fired up FRAPS, and ran a benchmark while QTing from Port Olisar to Hurston's Orbit, spending most of the time in Director Mode (F4), just to have more geometry on the screen. I saved the info in excel and made a quick reference chart.
You'll notice that I went quite a bit longer time after the change, I wanted to walk around Hurston and see what I'd get, so the benchmarks aren't EXACTLY 1:1, but the chart still gives a pretty good comparison.
There is 1 drop to zero frames during each benchmark. Those are times I was forced to Alt-tab briefly, sadly, couldn't be helped, but since it happened each time, it should still be a decent comparison.
Posted Dec 8, 2018, 3:46 PM UTC
cpu-hungry engine benefits from faster cpu. news at 11.
Of course, but the question is How Much better is it. Adding 2 cores and 1ghz, and all.
The improvement of course depends what you leapfrog from. For me moving from a 4 core HT 4790k to an 8 core 9900k was massive. Worlds apart in minimum frames, average frames, 1% and 0.1% general stutter and minimum frame rates
Indeed. I jumped from an i7-3770 to a Ryzen 7 2700x (and faster RAM) and the difference was massive.
It's night and day isn't it. I had gotten used to stutter and frame drops and fps in the 40, now ave fps is around 100. 60 at Lorville. it feels like completely different game, it's not punishing to log in. I feel spoiled lol.
Can't wait to see the improvements next year when I upgrade from a i5-6600k to a Ryzen R5 3600x
just go ahead and save up for the speculated 3850x :D, I bought a 6600k and I regret not buying the best at the time even though I had the money to do it so from here on its high end for me