I've been running a laptop for the better part of 4 years now, and I feel it's time for an upgrade. These are my current specs: CPU: Intel Core i5-9300H @ 2.4GHz (boost clock 4.1GHz) RAM: 1x16GB SODIMM-2400MHz GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop Storage: 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD + 1TB 2.5" SSD (TSC is installed here) I recently bought a 3440x1440 monitor and it's an awesome upgrade from the 1080p laptop screen, but the FPS can really detract from the experience at times. I have a generous budget, so a no-brainer would be to go for a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or even a 9800X3D, the two best gaming-oriented CPUs on the market. However, since I spend a lot of time on TSC compared to other games, I want to tailor my build towards it. The difficulty is the single-core nature of TSC. If I did get a 7800X3D, would I still be able to take full advantage of its capabilities, including the 8 cores and the 3D cache, or would I be better off with a Ryzen 9 instead? Should I consider Intel 14th gen despite its power consumption and thermal problems? The 14900KS has a 6.2GHz boost clock. My goal is to run a stable 60 fps, maybe even 85 (max refresh rate) with Vulkan, RWE Pro, and Reshade. Additionally, how effective is the GPU in TSC with it being such a CPU-heavy program? (I've already purchased an RX 6800, comparable to an RTX 3070 in raster performance but with twice the VRAM).
It's not a very multi-threaded program, so whichever processor has the best single threaded performance would be my guess.
It depends if you just want to build a PC for just Train Sim though, as often processors with weaker per core performance can actually be faster with more modern multi-threaded applications. Having said that, I just read a review that rates the 9800X3D's single core performance is pretty good.
I can't contirbute suggestions for CPUs because I'm in a similar situation to you, but to improve your framerates you might want to lower your resolution to 1080p and use the MSAA option which should provide a decent middle ground.
> Best CPU For Tsc Pick the fastest Various benchmark/tech sites like Tomshardware , Geekbench and Cpubenchmark have this kind of data available as well. They are all a bit different and/or selected more or less CPU. But all comes down to the same.
I am able to compare two systems running TSC. 1. Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.00 GHz 16GB RAM with SSD HD RAM 16GB DDR3 Graphics GEForce RTX 4060 2. Processor Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-7700k (4.2GHz) 8MB Cache 16GB RAM with SSD HD RAM 16GB Kingston DUAL DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 8GB) Graphics 3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP Both run standard resolution 1920 x 1080 since 22" monitors Both Windows 10 Pro 22H2 Both have settings for quality, density, view distance maxxed out but shadow and water quality one step back from max In operation, the two systems seem to be very similar in performance and frame rate wherever located (e.g. high density terminus or open countryside. I aways run LossLess Scaling utility to get mostly 58- 60 consistent fps when the original fps may temporarily be down at 28 -35 fps. Of course, Lossless cannot make up for momentary pausing the sim when loading new tiles, but it seems to make a reduction in the pause time. If anything the system 2, the 4.4GHz with GTX 1060 seems to do less time pausing on scenery tile load than the 4 GHz with the RTX 4060. It seems to echo what others have said that the CPU power has more influence than an expensive graphics card. That may be because CPU multi-threading is not used by TS Classic. So I would get the fastest raw speed CPU I could afford and perhaps dial back on getting the fastest graphics card If I had to trade-off on costs. The Lossless utility is a big help in improving the smoothness.
