Will an i5 2500 (not oc) perform better on crowded areas?

[K4ever]

When comparing it to an i3-2120 (2 core with hyper threading). I have a 7870 tahiti and game gives me great frame rates at max dx11 settings but without hbao, parallax or tesellation. When I enter crowded areas both of my cores jump to 100% and my fps sink to 30s or 20s (even 15 one time). When my cpus are not under full load the gpu takes care of everything and fps are mostly constant over 55fps (vsync enabled).
I assume this is a clear bottleneck (loss of frame rate because of 100% heavy cpu usage), so Im wondering if buying an i5 2500 will solve the issue, or if its actually worth it. I have read people saying that even their great rigs struggle with their fps on crowded areas.

[dutt]

I think a video card would be better to upgrade. might have to get a power suplly too hard to say without specs.

but I belive you willl get more dollar to prefomace.

[Nei]

MMOs are usually eat up CPU resources, so upgrading might make a difference

The GPU you have should be good enough for the game, I had the same GPU and it worked fine when I played this, I do get FPS drops in crowded areas when I used to use that

Head to system configuration>Other settings and set the limits on the character and object quantity to normal or low

This should decrease the amount of player models rendered in crowded areas

[maTyaR]

FFXIV is more CPU intensive over GPU.

[K4ever]

how many more frames per second will I be gaining?

[Asphe]

Assuming that only the CPUs are changed... slight increase in frames per second. A few percent, I'm guessing around 3~5%

i) your current frame rate is not 100% due to the CPU. So doubling the CPU's performance will not double your frame rate. In your particular scenario, you're adding cores that are up to 400GHz faster, or a bit over 10% improvement on CPU peak performance. If your CPU is responsible for half your frame rate, than you're looking at 5% at best.

ii) you're basically going from dual-core 3.3 GHz to quad-core 3.3GHz (in turbo mode, 3.7GHz). again not that much. The game is not very highly threaded (pretty much will max out one core and almost max out the other core, but beyond two cores, it will not benefit this game [or almost all other games] much.)

You'd gain 'some', but not something noticeable unless you have a frame rate counter up somewhere. You'd gain a bit more if you were running a lot of background tasks on your PC.

TLDR: Not worth the upgrade. The difference will not be noticeable to the naked eye. I'd still upgrade though since there are more than a few games that will use the quad cores but perhaps you should try 'unparking' all your cores first. See if that helps.

[K4ever]

I can try and get a used i5-2500 for around $100. Thing is I will aldo have to buy a heatsink and fan for it, because either thats the price for the cpu only, and/or I wont use the same heatsink and fan of my current i3 ( usable but not good enough ). Total will be around $130, and if the fps do not improve say over 10, then its not worth it.
Besides the settings I was using, I now also ticked on the boxes that disable objects when not in view, and the one that makes far objects display low textures/resolutions. Fps has noticeable improve and even on crowded areas, during peak hours, I can manage 30fps minimum (its 40fps usually and 55 or more everywhere else).

[Ryoku]

In games that will take full use of the cores you will see an improvment with the i5 2500k, how much I couldn't say. The 2500k is a fantastic processor, not sure how much longer it will stay relevant though.

With the Heatsink, If your using the stock one I wouldn't be surprised if they both use the same stock heatsink. Otherwise you could buy a CoolerMaster hyper 212 evo for like $30 which is an amazing heatsink for the price.