I have an i5-4570 (4 cores) and was thinking about upgrading to a i5-8400 (6 cores)
Will I get a noticeable performance boost or i wont notice?
Thanks!
Amount of cores doesn’t matter that much in WoW since WoW doesn’t really allow multiple cores to be used efficiently. You’re not really going to notice that big of a difference, if any, just by getting more cores seeing as you have already have a cpu with 4. You might even see your performance get worse if they’re weaker despite having more cores.
depends on the frequency, if the 6 cores has more GHZ then the 4 core yes youll see a diference with better fps.
wow uses single threath power ,i have a i7 4790k at 4.8 ghz 8 cores and runs wow maxed 60 fps at any time (vsync on) and around 150 fps (vsync off) because one of its strenghts is single thread power.not because has 8 cores.
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You’re not going to get 150 fps with everything maxed with that cpu.
Well acshually… you can’t do much more for WoW in terms of CPU. It doesn’t care about more cores, and yes it’s an old 4.8 and probably equivalent to a modern 4.0, but that is still about as much as WoW really needs.
That said, I don’t believe anyone can reliably get 150 fps in all situations. Modern game ain’t that smooth. I’d expect that when running around a starter zone at 3am.
Probably the latter. What’s your GPU and memory looking like? Where is it that you get fps drops? (Because everyone gets fps drops in raids, regardless of hardware.)
Depends on your GPU and resolution. For combat there will be an improvement although if you can go to something newer than i5-8400 would be even better.
WoW has a 1+3 CPU core usage - one core will be “main” and see highest load. The game can use up to 3 other cores for some work and in edge case scenarios can create 100% load on a 4-core CPU.
In combat, mass-actor scenarios (big BGs etc.) the world state around you (each toon and it state/actions) get complex and that main core gets way more to work. It can easily reach 100% load and the performance will be limited by it. That’s why upgrading to a newer CPU with much better single core performance can help in such scenarios.
Having more than 4 cores gives headroom for other apps, Windows and sometimes also addons. You can check my benchmarks for more info:
https://rk.edu.pl/en/world-warcraft-shadowlands-beta-benchmarks/
While your computer works, you do not get anywhere close to 150 fps if you put everything to max, unless you are looking into a wall in a secluded area. There are settings you are omitting here.
Interesting read. While it was on Beta version on Shadowlands, WoW rarely uses more than around 6GB RAM in reality. The beta servers have a lot more traffic and less sharding/actual realms than the end product (I play on one of the most populous servers, Draenor). But this wasn’t the point of the thread, so that was off topic, just wanted to point it out how different the end product is to beta.
I’ve got massive fps and general performance improvement after switching my HD to SSD one. Drastically so.
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People are conflating stuff here. An SSD will improve load times no end but its not going to affect fps.
You can see WoW + Windows exceeding 8GB of RAM in Oribos - it will have random stutter as you move alongside the circle. In many other places it fits. I have tests from SL Beta and subsequent released versions.
The only way going from 4 to 6 cores might improve FPS is if you have other ressource-demanding applications running while you are playing. More cores means those applications are less likely to nag on the core(s) used by WoW.
In this case it’s not only increasing core count but also using newer, more efficient cores. Higher IPC of a core will improve performance in combat scenarios (unless GPU is very basic).
Quite a lot of nonsense written in here to be fair. It’s 15-20% better FPS in games (single,dual and all cores) from benchmarks and real life results.
Wow uses more then 1 core, has done since Legion. God knows why people keep saying wow only uses 1 core. Especially if you use directx 12 as well.
“WoW performance is still driven by single core performance, but it also needs few additional cores to offload draw calls to. With some BfA zones starting to scale beyond 4-core CPUs”
Shadowlands is using even more CPU cores too, then BfA zones.
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WoW with everything on max is using 3.3 gb ram for me in oribos, with a load of addons, so… X.
My browser is using more memory than WoW ever does.
In WoW you don’t really need that much FPS tbh.
I’ve limited it to 100 fps at maximum, with ultra settings in 1440p, with EVGA 3080 and Ryzen 5600x. Got 32gb rams for it.
Ryzen is perfect for WoW.
Otherwise if you play some shooter games you may need more FPS than that.
If you have an old GPU I think it’s more likely you’re bottlenecked by your GPU and not by your CPU.
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RAM speed is also kinda huge I think.
It’s a new (later generation) CPU, so more likely than not you’ll get a FPS boost out of it, how much depends on how good it is.
I upgraded from a 1400 4 core Ryzen to an 5800x 8 core Ryzen and my fps more than tripled lmao, best money spent.
Doing mythic Soulrender at 20 fps versus doing it at a constant 75 (limited it here) has made my fail rate… which was due to “lag” drop by about 90%+ easily.
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i do mate its about how to configure your pc,also its 1080p and i play with 60 hz monitor so its vsync to 60 but if i disable vsync i get around 120 /150 fps…