RX560 upgrade- Is it worth it?

I've looked on lots of other websites about this, but I'd rather have the opinion of people who actually have experience playing Beam.

Anyway, the card I'm running right now is a Gigabyte Radeon RX560 with 2GB of memory. It's fine, and with relatively high settings I can hit about 90FPS on gridmap, down to about 40 on WCUSA. It works fine, but with three or four vehicles my framerate can drop as low as 20 or even 15 fps. I'd been looking into an RX580 with 8GB memory, and I was wondering if anyone feels that an upgrade is or isn't worth it.

 

It would be worth it if graphics card prices were reasonable, but currently everything is way more expensive than it should be. You may have trouble finding an RX 580 for less than £450/$500 at which point its definitely not good value for money.

Also what CPU do you have? The limits with multiples cars could be down to that.

 

As Veyron said, sounds like a CPU issue.


Pause your physics while you have multiple cars spawned (J,) and see if your framerate goes up.

if it does, you're CPU bound.

 

I'm running an AMD FX6300 at the moment. I know it's not the best available, but it works, even if it's quite old. I've got a pretty small budget, so I couldn't go as crazy as I would have liked. Then again, perhaps that's a good thing, as this is my first gaming PC and I've never liked to go all out the first time.
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Also, the car thing is mainly when I've got like 4 or 5 spawned, or 3 when they're all quite damaged.
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I know I said 3 to four originally, but I wasn't being specific.

 

I would say the issues are with the CPU then, even with a much better GPU you would still be limited to 5 or so cars like you say.

 

Alright. An upgrade to an FX 8350 wouldn't be hard at all, so in that case what would you reccomend?

 

What Processor did you use?

From my own experience: I highly don't recommend an upgrade to an FX 8350. First you need a really powerful power supply and second you need one of the best mainboards to support these amount of watts that the cpu needs. You can not use a budget mainboard (I have made the mistake myself and now my old computer is broken, burned through).And after that you need a quiet large cpu heatsink. And then there is the huge power bill... All in all is that even today far from a budget build away. My suggestion is to build an new pc with new parts.

Oh and performance wise: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-3-1200-vs-AMD-FX-8350/3931vs1489
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-vs-AMD-FX-8350/3937vs1489
The bulldozer architecture is too old.

 

I also wouldn't recommend an FX 8350, if you want to spend money at all I would recommend just changing up to a Ryzen CPU and mobo, even a low end model would get better performance and has upgradability for the whole range.

 

Alright, thanks. I might look into an RX 580 when prices drop, but in the mean time I'l just stick with what I have. Seeing as how I purchased the computer so recently I'm probably not going to do any major upgrades any time soon, but in the future I'll consider these suggestions.
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Obviously the RX580 wouldn't be a framerate booster, but it might come in handy when I get a higher resolution monitor that isn't 10 years old.