Will a Ryzen 5 5600X run it at stable 60 FPS?

[Morboth]

So, I bought the game and, in what is now a recurring trope, it runs like hell on crowded spaces such as New Atlantis.

My rig is a Ryzen 5 2600x, Kingston 16 GB Ram DDR 4 HyperX and a RTX 3060. Up until I played this game I had not really thought about changing anything on my rig, but New Atlantis is killing me. I get FPS in the 20s and the stutter is driving me crazy. Note that I am playing on 1080p and have no intention of going to 1440p or beyond. Owing to my budget and whatnot I was thinking of grabbing a Ryzen 5 5600x, but I wanted to ask around if it was worth the upgrade.

Thus, I wanted to ask if anyone out there happens to have a similar setup as the one I am currently planning on having, namely: a Ryzen 5 5600x, a RTX 3060 and 16 GB RAM DDR 4 and whether this gets some reasonable FPS in New Atlantis and other crowded areas or if it doesn't.

Apart from this insane stutter, I am LOVING the game, so here's hoping I manage to crank those FPS up somehow.

Thanks in advance!

[M]

I have a 5600x as well as a 3060 12GB. Personally, the performance was bad enough that I gave up entirely on trying to play Starfield. DLSS helps some, but I couldn't get it to run all that smoothly no matter how blotchy I made it look.

That being said, I'm playing on a 1440p 144hz monitor, so my expectations have been set slightly higher because of other games running so well. Your mileage may vary.

[FeilDOW]

It depends, watch your GPU usage when you get FPS drops. If your GPU usage drops it likely a CPU limitation causing it then yes a 5600x will help.

Originally posted by M:

I have a 5600x as well as a 3060 12GB. Personally, the performance was bad enough that I gave up entirely on trying to play Starfield. DLSS helps some, but I couldn't get it to run all that smoothly no matter how blotchy I made it look.

That being said, I'm playing on a 1440p 144hz monitor, so my expectations have been set slightly higher because of other games running so well. Your mileage may vary.

You're playing older games launched on last gen consoles. You're going to have to go 1080p or upgrade your GPU with any hope of reaching 1440p 144hz this gen with decent settings.

[travisdead1]

Originally posted by Morboth:

So, I bought the game and, in what is now a recurring trope, it runs like hell on crowded spaces such as New Atlantis.

My rig is a Ryzen 5 2600x, Kingston 16 GB Ram DDR 4 HyperX and a RTX 3060. Up until I played this game I had not really thought about changing anything on my rig, but New Atlantis is killing me. I get FPS in the 20s and the stutter is driving me crazy. Note that I am playing on 1080p and have no intention of going to 1440p or beyond. Owing to my budget and whatnot I was thinking of grabbing a Ryzen 5 5600x, but I wanted to ask around if it was worth the upgrade.

Thus, I wanted to ask if anyone out there happens to have a similar setup as the one I am currently planning on having, namely: a Ryzen 5 5600x, a RTX 3060 and 16 GB RAM DDR 4 and whether this gets some reasonable FPS in New Atlantis and other crowded areas or if it doesn't.

Apart from this insane stutter, I am LOVING the game, so here's hoping I manage to crank those FPS up somehow.

Thanks in advance!

I'm using a Ryzen 5 3600. It was moving pretty slow, but i bought another 32 gigs of RAM and that made it better for me.

I still get like 40 seconds of black when I try to open a page, about 1/3 of the time. But it always opens up, just slow.

My GPU is Radeon RX 580 series, and those are kind of old, so that's probably why it takes almost a minute to open up a dialogue with an NPC or a store.

[Gravity 🌌]

I have a 3060 and a CPU that has roughly the same passmark score as the 5600x. I get mostly around 50fps with some settings on high/ultra and 1440p.

If your CPU is bottlenecking the game, you may want to limit your FPS, either by increasing graphics settings or with a hard limit. You can also try setting crowd density to low.

Reportedly 32gb instead of 16gb results some 10% fps boost.

[M]

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

You're playing older games launched on last gen consoles. You're going to have to go 1080p or upgrade your GPU with any hope of reaching 1440p 144hz this gen with decent settings.

Not saying I was hoping for 144hz with Starfield, but even locking it to 60 ran like puke. I play all sorts of things, including newer titles, and Starfield ran specifically poorly by comparison. Hell, there are many older games that look as good as or better than Starfield and can churn out a whole lot more frames doing it.

As I say, mileage may vary as this game specifically seems to act up for some and not others.

[Engels78]

Originally posted by M:

I have a 5600x as well as a 3060 12GB. Personally, the performance was bad enough that I gave up entirely on trying to play Starfield. DLSS helps some, but I couldn't get it to run all that smoothly no matter how blotchy I made it look.

That being said, I'm playing on a 1440p 144hz monitor, so my expectations have been set slightly higher because of other games running so well. Your mileage may vary.

Ryzen 5600x is NOT bottleneck here! You would need to have kinda RTX 4080 to MAYBE start having bottleneck and in 4k. In 1440p this CPU is still great for GAMING!

I had Ryzen 2600 and upgraded to 5600x. And I had also RTX 2070 Super, 3070 and now 4070. And in games I think I saw max like 70% of CPU usage! It was in Cyberpunk 2077... In most games it doesn't go above 50%.

[Gravity 🌌]

Originally posted by M:

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

You're playing older games launched on last gen consoles. You're going to have to go 1080p or upgrade your GPU with any hope of reaching 1440p 144hz this gen with decent settings.

Not saying I was hoping for 144hz with Starfield, but even locking it to 60 ran like puke. I play all sorts of things, including newer titles, and Starfield ran specifically poorly by comparison. Hell, there are many older games that look as good as or better than Starfield and can churn out a whole lot more frames doing it.

As I say, mileage may vary as this game specifically seems to act up for some and not others.

The 3060 is too weak for 60 fps at decent settings. But actually that's the case for many games.

[Apoloyn]

No, absolutely not. Your graphics card isn't that great, with all due respect.
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Performance in Starfield is perfectly correlated with Memory Bandwidth. Virtually every benchmark I have seen exhibits a strong relationship between performance on the one hand and CPU RAM and VRAM bandwidth.

Performance in Starfield is perfectly correlated with Memory Bandwidth. Virtually every benchmark I have seen exhibits a strong relationship between performance on the one hand and CPU RAM and VRAM bandwidth.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4obxsHvgCebP46FqNfJ5NN.png

Just to take this benchmark as an example, you can see that AMD"s entire lineup wipes the floor with Nvidia. What's even more glaring is that the 7900 XT kills the 4080. Why? AMD Cards simply have more VRAM than their Nvidia counterpart.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Originally posted by Morboth:

So, I bought the game and, in what is now a recurring trope, it runs like hell on crowded spaces such as New Atlantis.

My rig is a Ryzen 5 2600x, Kingston 16 GB Ram DDR 4 HyperX and a RTX 3060. Up until I played this game I had not really thought about changing anything on my rig, but New Atlantis is killing me. I get FPS in the 20s and the stutter is driving me crazy. Note that I am playing on 1080p and have no intention of going to 1440p or beyond. Owing to my budget and whatnot I was thinking of grabbing a Ryzen 5 5600x, but I wanted to ask around if it was worth the upgrade.

Thus, I wanted to ask if anyone out there happens to have a similar setup as the one I am currently planning on having, namely: a Ryzen 5 5600x, a RTX 3060 and 16 GB RAM DDR 4 and whether this gets some reasonable FPS in New Atlantis and other crowded areas or if it doesn't.

Apart from this insane stutter, I am LOVING the game, so here's hoping I manage to crank those FPS up somehow.

Thanks in advance!

Well, the rtx 3060 is a pcie 4.0 standard GPU so technically you're not fully supporting it. You have it working yes but only at pcie 3.0 standard.

pcie 4.0 = 16 gt/s
pcie 3.0 = 8 gt/s

Upgrading to Ryzen 5600 will give you pcie 4.0 support and fully utilize your rtx 3060 in all situations. You don't need the 5600x if you can get the 5600 as the x is meaningless. It just costs more.

I would actually try to get the 5700x, since it's the best value. Your resolution is also outdated and can cause excess load on the CPU. The standard now is 1440p. 1080p is for rtx 3050.

[Spirit Wave]

When i played this game I had a 2070S and 5900X and it was a terrible experience. Nowhere near stable 60.

[Gooeykat]

Its not a matter of hardware. It's poorly optimized crap in some areas and others it runs fine.

[TheCr33pur]

Idk about that cpu you are using there, but getting more ram, double it! Now i have Nvidia RTX 3060ti running this game at 4k and smooth. What brand is your RTX?

The cpu i have here is i9 intel, multi cores at 3.5Ghz, 11th generation.

[TheCr33pur]

Originally posted by Gravity 🌌:

Originally posted by M:

Not saying I was hoping for 144hz with Starfield, but even locking it to 60 ran like puke. I play all sorts of things, including newer titles, and Starfield ran specifically poorly by comparison. Hell, there are many older games that look as good as or better than Starfield and can churn out a whole lot more frames doing it.

As I say, mileage may vary as this game specifically seems to act up for some and not others.

The 3060 is too weak for 60 fps at decent settings. But actually that's the case for many games.

Not at all, depending on the model, make, driver and the graphic settings. But gotta realized you need 32GB at least with a good cpu too.

Its like having a hotrod with nice engine, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥ wheels, parts, etc. Everything need to be balance out to have a smooth running.