I need to upgrade my CPU for this game right?

[Ozymandias]

RTX 3060 and Ryzen 5 3600, I also want to get a better gpu but I think a better cpu should be priority

[RubIXx]

same bro, my cpu s also kinda low

[Dr. Raven]

Benchmark tool is available on the store page. Don't ask us, I certainly won't be able to tell you accurately what frames on what settings you should be expecting.

[xlent/ttv/kick]

game is unoptimised and uses way too much cpu regardless you will have same issues

[Wild]

No, it should be running fine on medium, you can go up to Rx 6700 XT or 4060 ti with that CPU, but no more.

[Skulltank]

if you look at the graphic settings the game tells you which is getting used more and for almost all of the individual settings the cpu is hardly used

[Akroz]

I played the beta test with a Ryzen 5 7600x and it uses 80% of the CPU . GPU: RX 6700 XT and I played in medium settings with FSR Performance 1080p 50-60 fps a lot of frame drops on the new monster with crazy attacks . Using frame gen if the game is not 60fps already is so bad and not recommended so they really need to optimise the game .

[NeoX]

Originally posted by Ozymandias:

RTX 3060 and Ryzen 5 3600, I also want to get a better gpu but I think a better cpu should be priority

Originally posted by xlent/ttv/kick:

game is unoptimised and uses way too much cpu regardless you will have same issues

Originally posted by Wild:

No, it should be running fine on medium, you can go up to Rx 6700 XT or 4060 ti with that CPU, but no more.

Originally posted by Akroz:

I played the beta test with a Ryzen 5 7600x and it uses 80% of the CPU . GPU: RX 6700 XT and I played in medium settings with FSR Performance 1080p 50-60 fps a lot of frame drops on the new monster with crazy attacks . Using frame gen if the game is not 60fps already is so bad and not recommended so they really need to optimise the game .

Yeah i would recommend at least a Zen 8 core cpu like the PS5 has for the console like 30 fps medium settings expereince.

I did many tests and collected some data around here and i can assure you, its in 80% of all cases the CPu that sets the performance level for you and in 2nd place your GPU's VRAM.

Here my test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uricga09EA

Beta performance for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIWjgo88_WI

Core numbers:

Average Frames Native Maximum Settings Raytracing = 80,85fps
Average Frames FSR/Gen Maximum Settings Raytracing = 162,54fps
Average Frames Native Maximum Settings NO Raytracing = 89,58fps
Average Frames FSR/Gen Maximum Settings NO Raytracing = 174,4fps

Average Frames Native Medium Settings Raytracing = 92,81fps
Average Frames FSR/Gen Medium Settings Raytracing = 191,02fps
Average Frames Native Medium Settings NO Raytracing = 99,7fps
Average Frames FSR/Gen Medium Settings NO Raytracing = 199,32fps

Average Frames Native Minimum Settings Raytracing = 99,13fps
Average Frames FSR/Gen Minimum Settings Raytracing = 197,97fps
Average Frames Native Minimum Settings NO Raytracing = 103,85fps
Average Frames FSR/Gen Minimum Settings NO Raytracing = 211,72fps

As you can see the difference between highest and lowest settings is just around 20 fps what speaks a lot for a CPU bottleneck. That i do not have laggs or super bad-frame drops is given why the high amoung of CPU cores (12>8) that my system has.

So i can only repeat myself that the CPU is the base performance factor in this game.

2nd in place is the VRAM. In all my tests it was always around 10-11GB of VRAm usage and that in 1080P. You can find some reports in this forum of RTX4060(ti) users where the difference between the 8 and 16GB VRAM models, are over 60% difference in frame amounts.

So yeah, priority one is the CPU and in 2nd place GPU with solid VRAM amount.

[Hans Moleman]

Originally posted by Skulltank:

if you look at the graphic settings the game tells you which is getting used more and for almost all of the individual settings the cpu is hardly used

Yep but thats only for the graphicssettings.
Game is eating cpu with more than enough other stuff like economic simulation.

@OP
If we only consider monster hunter wilds a cpu update won't do that much on its own, imo.

[defnotj4]

i run a 3700x and it's just barely able to hit a mostly stable 60 in the benchmark before any framegen, which should be the goal here

if you do upgrade and don't want to buy a new whole new motherboard and ram you should be able to get a 5800x3d into your current rig which is a solid upgrade and still a good chip.