Benchmarking the Intel i7-4790 with AMD RX 580 8GB & 32GB DDR3 RAM: Can You Still Game in 2024

[@OptimizingNetwork]

Not sure what settings you are running at Cyber Punk, but having nearly 60 FPS and 37 FPS at 0.1% lows is a SUCCESS! With 4790k, that CPU was actually nearly the same compared to 9900k, that's what I upgraded from back in 2018 or so. RX 580 is doing super well in Cyber Punk, I am impressed.

[@CornerstoneComputers928]

@@OptimizingNetwork I was somewhat surprised as well, I need to put down what settings were used. I'm still learning. Thanks for the comment.

[@justwantedtoreply]

Nice to see you took the time to benchmark somewhat older hardware. I run my 4790 with a gtx1080 and its doing fine in most titles on 1080p, sure it can the games i play (Anthem, witcher3) at highest settings but you can tell the cpu is holding it back. Also got a 12400 with a rtx2080 and 9900k with a 3080 12GB but the last pc has 3 screens. 27/34/27 inch.

[@adaneitor]

Really good video bud! I'm about to pick up a rx 580 8gb from a facebook marketplace seller this next week and I'm just impressed by what it can do in the reviews

[@WhiteZelda]

If i may, i would suggest to spend a bit more and get an RX5700XT or 6650XT. The RX580/590 wont last too long in the current game market, even with FSR and FG. Rx580 is not getting driver updates (it did update to last one, but didnt add anything beyond a minecraft fix and MS Teams fix). Now if you are in a real tight budget (like me :D) doi get it, because its really good for most games from 2024 and below. Just try to optimize settings as much as ytou can, you will most likely need to cut some corners.

[@CornerstoneComputers928]

Thank you for the comment. Yes, I was quite surprised by the performance to be had with this particular card. There seems to be some life left in it and is not yet fit for the scrap heap.

[@CornerstoneComputers928]

@@WhiteZelda Thank you for your comment. The reason for choosing to benchmark the RX 580 with the 4790 was due to the fact there is no bottleneck between the components and the pairing is quite balanced. The RX 5700 XT would be bottlenecked by around 25% and the RX 6650 XT by nearly 30%, so while the 4790 will be running at 100% you wouldn`t get the full power of the graphics card. I shall need to get hold of a 4790K and overclock it to see if that would handle the GPUs you suggested. In the meantime, I intend to test this setup with a GTX 1080 - so watch this space.

[@sullit1559]

Still using this cpu to this day it can actually boost to 4ghz on all cores at 80W managed to play every triple a games on it

[@horsegangstudios7557]

how do you do that, and are the triple A games high graphics?

[@sullit1559]

@@horsegangstudios7557 yes at 1440p high to medium with a 3070 normally you can't go above 3.7 ghz but with a older version of intel cpu microcode 7th works for me it allows 4ghz on all cores it requires modifying you bios update file to change the version of the microcode

[@miqmal8378]

​@@sullit1559how? Did you use bclk?

[@ClayWheeler]

With PCIe Gen 3 system, it's still good to pair with RTX 2080 Ti, and then use LSFG (Lossless Scaling Frame Generation) to force FPS beyon 120

[@CornerstoneComputers928]

I`ll keep that in mind. Thank you. I have another video coming soon which features an i5 2400 and a GT 710, which should be a laugh.

[@sullit1559]

have you tried the fsr3 mod for cyberpunk ?

[@CornerstoneComputers928]

No. I will give it a shot tho.

[@maximilianoalvarez2209]

The RX580 now is compatible with Forza? I remenber after a update the gpu was not supported... Wich version of drivers you have?

[@CornerstoneComputers928]

@@maximilianoalvarez2209 Actually just downloaded the latest ones from AMD and installed them.