ty_ger07
You are going to be CPU limited with such a high-end video card with such a low resolution monitor.
Get a higher resolution monitor to match your high-end card.

kevinc313
W11, 5950X and 240hz probably isn't a great combo.

kevinc313

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kevinc313
W11, 5950X and 240hz probably isn't a great combo.

Aside fron the ryzen bug they patched windows 11 has been fine. U less it's the actual issue and I just don't know it yet

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ty_ger07
You are going to be CPU limited with such a high-end video card with such a low resolution monitor.
Get a higher resolution monitor to match your high-end card.

That doesn't make sense. So you're telling me that these cards are limited in pushing out frames per second? What you're saying is that instead of giving you more frames per second graphics cards all of a sudden scale down now?

Since when is a powerful CPU and a powerful graphics card paired together to get mediocre results?

kevinc313

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kevinc313
W11, 5950X and 240hz probably isn't a great combo.

Aside fron the ryzen bug they patched windows 11 has been fine. U less it's the actual issue and I just don't know it yet

I'm trying to understand what I'm looking at. I see benchmarks.

Yep.  Those are techpowerup 720P resolution benches, when means they are about the clearest indication of CPU performance on games that you can get.  The 5950X is comparable to a 10700K or overclocked 9900K, however, on some multi-core optimized games, you may get better performance, or on some low core games worse performance.  To get better gaming FPS on a 5950x, people would typically do things like a fat OC, fast tight ram, disabling cores and disabling hyperthreading, then testing at 720P or 1080P low.   I'd try either half the cores disabled or hyperthreading disabled, synced fclk and memory speed, a fixed speed or PBO OC and some 3600CL14 ram.  Or just sell it off and get a 11900K or 12900K with a good MB, an OC, and fast ram.  I'd run some benches at 720P compared to 1080P to see if you are in fact CPU limited, which is pretty quick to do, before changing anything.
 
Here's the tests at 1080P, looks like they tested with a 2080 Ti and 3090, and got the same results:
 

 
However, their latest test suite of games has the 5950X doing better against the 10700K and newer:
 

kRoOkEd OnE I really hope they start developing for better CPU usage as a standard real soon.

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ty_ger07
You are going to be CPU limited with such a high-end video card with such a low resolution monitor.
Get a higher resolution monitor to match your high-end card.

That doesn't make sense. So you're telling me that these cards are limited in pushing out frames per second? What you're saying is that instead of giving you more frames per second graphics cards all of a sudden scale down now?

It's not scaling down. The guy you quoted is correct. Each frame that your card puts out has to be prepared by your CPU, which is also thinking about all sorts of other things that it has to track in game, like all the other players around you, what they're doing, etc. All of this info is being communicated to your game by the game server, so there is lots of network traffic with lots of updates per second showing you all the changes that are happening around you that your client can't predict, because they're dictated by the actions of others. The sheer, brute power of the GPU is only one factor.
 
At such a low resolution, your CPU and GPU are already showing you as much as they can within the limitations of network updates from the server and other such things. The way you're going to see your GPU power unleashed and see it showing you more is to upgrade your monitor to a higher resolution.
 
Dude, you already put a 5950x and 3090 in your machine. You clearly have money to burn and appreciate having a fast, beastly machine. Why are you still playing 1080p? A 1440p monitor even at the same refresh rate as your 1080p will not cost that much, at least not in the context of what you've already demonstrated you can afford and are willing to spend. You've already got so much CPU and GPU power at your fingertips that at this point you really are limited in how that power can be expressed by playing at such a low resolution. A 1080ti already had mastered 1080p resolution four years ago.
 
For that matter, don't stop at standard 1440p, which is 2560x1440. If you really want to treat yourself, get one of the excellent 3440x1440 ultrawides, or even one of the new 5120x1440 super ultrawides. The Samung G9 Neo something or other can do 5120x1440 at up to 175hz, and if any CPU/GPU combination can get the most out of that that's currently possible, your 5950/3090 combo will do it. I upgraded to a 3440x1440/120hz a couple of years ago and it's really awesome, and the available refresh rates of this size of monitor have increased from there. I've been playing BF 2042 for a couple days (since around 15 seconds after it went live Friday morning) and with the ray traced ambient occlusion turned off but pretty much everything else on Ultra my framerates are generally at or exceeding my monitor's refresh rate. I'll see up to 50% CPU utilization on my 5900x during that time, with my GPU (3080ti very lightly OCed) pegged.

Since when is a powerful CPU and a powerful graphics card paired together to get mediocre results?

Since CPU/GPU pairs already came out that could maximize 1080p and then you upgraded to a CPU and GPU pair at least three generations later. Your monitor really is the weak link in your rig now. Don't let this advice go in one eye and out the other. You may not think you're interested in anything higher than 1080p right now, but that's just because you haven't experienced the awesomeness that is 1440p-based ultrawides. I went from 1080p to 4K back in 2015, and my 1080ti could barely keep FPS up to my monitor's 60hz refresh, and I really wanted higher refresh. I side-graded to this 3440x1440/120hz and while I lost some resolution compared to 4K, the ultrawideness of it was fantastic, the resolution increase over 1080p was extremely noticeable and greatly enjoyed, and the lower pixels/frame of 3440x1440 compared to 3840x2160 really allowed my framerates to rise to the occasion and actually utilized my monitor's 120hz refresh. My 5900x and 3080ti combo can maximize this monitor. Your 5950/3090 combo would do a little better, and you'd probably be able to max out a 3440x1440/175hz monitor with judicious settings choices. That would be a beastly setup indeed. You'd love it.

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With streaming it shrinks the picture and adds black thick bars on the top and bottom to be able to squeeze the UW aspect ratio in without any distortion. Honestly I may just say f it and do it anyways lol uw is just way too good

F1Aussie
I have a 5950x, 3090 and 38" 3840x 1600. It kind of sits around 3k resolution, if there was such a thing.
I mainly do sim racing and that can still tank the 3090 fps in some situations but in any first person shooter this combo destroys frame rates at the highest settings, Ray tracing on and dlss on ultra quality, well in what I play it on it does anyway.