More Ram or CPU power to increase FPS?

Hello,

I just build a new AMD rig and are happy with the results. However I was being cheap and went with 8GB DDR4 2666 Mhz Memory and use a OC 3.8GHZ Ryzen 5 1500X.

I'm getting around 100-110 overworld, 45-60 in A ranks and about 50-70 in RR/Kugane.

Its a HUGE improvement from played on PS4 for 3 years.

But what do I need to do to hit higher FPS in hunts and towns? Get more RAM or is my CPU my bottleneck?
Forgot my GPU, I'm using a ASUS Strix GTX 1060 6GB OC version

I'd recommend running a GPU load monitor to make sure which part is bottlenecking you (like GPUz). In my case (R9 380 + i5 2500K) most situations are GPU-bound, meaning the CPU is not the limiting factor, however, in the large congestion areas (big active cities, hunts), the CPU load spikes and becomes the limiting factor. Since your GPU is much more powerful, but CPU is just a bit more, I'd say you're being limited by the CPU in the situations you mentioned.

Nevertheless, your fps is still pretty darn good and very, very playable.

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Originally Posted by Orlet

I'd recommend running a GPU load monitor to make sure which part is bottlenecking you (like GPUz). In my case (R9 380 + i5 2500K) most situations are GPU-bound, meaning the CPU is not the limiting factor, however, in the large congestion areas (big active cities, hunts), the CPU load spikes and becomes the limiting factor. Since your GPU is much more powerful, but CPU is just a bit more, I'd say you're being limited by the CPU in the situations you mentioned.

Nevertheless, your fps is still pretty darn good and very, very playable.

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Yeah I'm not complaining. I come from PS4 so everything is a improvement but I just wanted to look around what could be a bottleneck in the future.

It is hard to say. Based on the components you listed, it could be several things:

Maybe it is the SSD. Get one with faster read/write speeds.
Maybe it is the GPU. 1060 is not the top of the line, but still very very good. Getting one with more than 8GBs of RAM if you want to push 4K or even 5K at 60+ fps.
Maybe it is the CPU. I see it is not 4.0GHz+ before any overclocking or hyperthreading.
Maybe it is your motherboard. The chipset could be slowing it down or you do not have very good bus speeds or enough channels for data.
Maybe it is the connector you are using for the SSD. What if instead of going SATA III, you went with M.2 or even the really expensive PCI Express drives?

Honestly, you do not need to upgrade anything for awhile, but if I had to choose, it would be the GPU for me.

OP has a ryzen with DDR4, so it's not cpu, chipset or memory. Going over 8gb RAM would probably not improve you at all.

Ryzen is a newer cpu and has yet to be tweaked out, meaning current software has not been developed to run with Ryzen in mind. This will change in the near future. I consider it superior to any quad core that intel has out, but gaming performance on it is a little less right now. Time with bios and software updates may change that. However, even with that in mind, I'm going to go out and say your GPU is the limiting factor. right now.

Turning off its hyperthreading equivalent in BIOS does improve performance in most games atm.