Is my Intel 980 6 core 3.33Ghz Gulftown bottlenecking me?

[Kitlope]

I'll keep this to the point. Looking to play BF1 and currently play a lot of Rust. Monitor is 144 Hz 1440X2560 Asus ROG. 18 Gb of DDR3 ram, NVidia 1080 GPU.

I know it's a great though dated CPU but just wondering if an upgrade will help my frames... not that they suck but they could be higher in BF1 (was getting around 100, looking to get closer to 144). Thanks.

Kit

 

[scannall]

I'll keep this to the point. Looking to play BF1 and currently play a lot of Rust. Monitor is 144 Hz 1440X2560 Asus ROG. 18 Gb of DDR3 ram, NVidia 1080 GPU.

I know it's a great though dated CPU but just wondering if an upgrade will help my frames... not that they suck but they could be higher in BF1 (was getting around 100, looking to get closer to 144). Thanks.

Kit

Probably not. That's a lot of pixels you are pushing, so it is more likely your bottleneck is your GPU. Should be easy enough to overclock that Gulftown to 4.2 Ghz without any wild gymnastics. Clock it up, and see if there is a frame rate change.

 

[daxzy]

Keep in mind this game is still in Beta, so it could change on release.

It doesn't seem extra cores (past 4) are helping much. You see i7-6700 (4C/3.4 GHz) at stock beating i7-5960X's (8C/3.0 GHz). Skylake IPC is about 50% ahead of Westmere as well. SandyBridge IPC is about 20% better than Westmere.

See scaling on this thread:
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/battlefield-1-beta-cpu-scaling-performance.2485172/

So you should like be about 20% behind the i7-2500K, which puts you around 110 fps average at 1080p. Since you're CPU bottlenecked, it wouldn't be surprising that at 1440p, you'd be around 100 fps average as well. As above poster indicated, you could overclock it and see if it scales linearly, like the graphs indicate.

 

[AtenRa]

Just OC to 4-4.2GHz, with DX-12 will be more than enough to get 144fps.

 

[crashtech]

I don't know if it would be a significant bottleneck, but ST performance has come a long way. The recommended CPU will probably be a Haswell i5 or better, and Nehalem is very significantly behind those in ST. As mentioned, OCing temporarily would be a good way to test for frame rate increases.