Which PC out of these 2?

[stabilio]

I have 2 PCs I use for work that mainly involves video editing/Photoshop but looking to do some gaming and am not sure which would be best to use.
One of has a better GPU but a slower CPU so which would you say is best for gaming/decent graphics.

Both run at 3440x1440 on 35" curved monitors

PC:1
i9-7900X @3.30
Geforce GTX 1080TI
32GB Ram
SSD boot / sata slave drives

PC: 2
i7-6900K @3.20
Geforce RTX 2080TI
32GB Ram
SSD boot / sata slave drives

[Douglas Arfempty]

PC2!

The 2080Ti is a beast. It'll run every game on max settings. Your CPU is a slight bottleneck, but the performance of the 2080Ti over the 1080Ti more than makes up for it.

[Douglas Arfempty]

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i...

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-2...

Edited to add comparison info.

A 30-50% improvement in GPU performance and a 10% loss in CPU performance if opting for PC2.

[RizzoTheRat]

Depends on the game. The main benefit of the 20 series cards over the 10 series is ray tracing. I'm not 100% sure what that actually is but only really new games actually use it. For older games I wouldn't expect to see much difference between the two, but the first one potentially being a bit better due to the newer processor. That said I doubt either processor is going to struggle with much so the second one is probably the sensible choice.

Can you swap the graphics card over?

[HRL]

PC2 but swap the CPU and motherboard for an AMD Ryzen 3900X.

12 cores and 24 threads would be better than either of the Intel CPU's quoted.

Or even a 3950X if budget allows. 16 cores and 32 threads!

[stabilio]

Don't want to be swapping cards around as use them for work which pays my mortgage

PC1 actually scores quite a bit higher in Passmark (7155) than PC2 (4598).

[130R]

PC 2 and there is no reason to swap the CPU. Just overclock it.

That's the same spec as my PC: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/32022290

[brman]

can't you just run your favourite game on both and see which is best?

My money would be on PC2.

[Pachydermus]

iRacing is single threaded so prefers faster single core performance. Either of those GPUs will run at max detail.
Not sure about Assetto Corsa's cpu usage but again either GPU will do.

[HRL]

130R said:

PC 2 and there is no reason to swap the CPU. Just overclock it.

That's the same spec as my PC: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/32022290

Only reason I suggest the Ryzen 3900X is because of the increase in cores/threads. That CPU outperforms the Intel CPU's mentioned by quite a margin, potentially useful for the OP's original criteria.

At present I find it hard to recommend any Intel CPU as the current AMD Ryzen CPU's are simply superior.

[Type R Tom]

Nice problem to have, could you run 3Dmark and Unigine and see what gets a better score? Some games prefer a better CPU, especially at 1080p but you'll be running higher than that.

[geeks]

PC1 with the graphics card from PC2 surely?

[130R]

HRL said:

Only reason I suggest the Ryzen 3900X is because of the increase in cores/threads. That CPU outperforms the Intel CPU's mentioned by quite a margin, potentially useful for the OP's original criteria.

At present I find it hard to recommend any Intel CPU as the current AMD Ryzen CPU's are simply superior.

I certainly wouldn't buy a 6900K new now but reading the OP he already has these PC's. 6900K is still a decent CPU and overclocked is basically comparable to a 3700X

[130R]

Type R Tom said:

Nice problem to have, could you run 3Dmark and Unigine and see what gets a better score? Some games prefer a better CPU, especially at 1080p but you'll be running higher than that.

He's running at 3440x1440. There's no need to benchmark them. PC 2 has the better GPU.

[AlexC1981]

HRL said:

Only reason I suggest the Ryzen 3900X is because of the increase in cores/threads. That CPU outperforms the Intel CPU's mentioned by quite a margin, potentially useful for the OP's original criteria.

At present I find it hard to recommend any Intel CPU as the current AMD Ryzen CPU's are simply superior.

Both the Intel CPUs the OP owns are already good for gaming, so no point to upgrading. I had a look on Passmark and I was surprised at how well the AMD CPUs are benchmarked. I thought their single core performance might be letting them down, but that's really good too.

I'm glad AMD are making a comeback and that Intel have some serious competition again.

[stabilio]

130R said:

certainly wouldn't buy a 6900K new now but reading the OP he already has these PC's. 6900K is still a decent CPU and overclocked is basically comparable to a 3700X

Yeah, that machine is about 3-4 years old now and bought the 2080TI last year for faster video rendering. I think it had a 1070 when i bought it.

[HRL]

Apologies, completely misread the OP’s initial post.

PC1 with the GPU out of PC2. It’d only take 5 mins to swap the graphics cards over and no need to faff about with drivers.

[RizzoTheRat]

HRL said:

Only reason I suggest the Ryzen 3900X is because of the increase in cores/threads. That CPU outperforms the Intel CPU's mentioned by quite a margin, potentially useful for the OP's original criteria.

At present I find it hard to recommend any Intel CPU as the current AMD Ryzen CPU's are simply superior.

A lot of games won't use those multiple cores though and will run better on a machine with a higher clock speed than one with more cores.

[Mr_Yogi]

RizzoTheRat said:

Depends on the game. The main benefit of the 20 series cards over the 10 series is ray tracing. I'm not 100% sure what that actually is but only really new games actually use it. For older games I wouldn't expect to see much difference between the two, but the first one potentially being a bit better due to the newer processor. That said I doubt either processor is going to struggle with much so the second one is probably the sensible choice.

Can you swap the graphics card over?

Bloody hell, why even comment if you haven't got a f**king clue

Just use the system with the RTX2080Ti.

[HM-2]

stabilio said:

PC1 actually scores quite a bit higher in Passmark (7155) than PC2 (4598).

PassMark is heavily CPU bound. I'd take 2, it's almost the mirror of my system (except my 6900k is running at 4.2GHz and my 2080 is a non-Ti sadly.)