No RAM makes a huge difference too.
I have an i5-8400 but 8gigs RAM. RAM usage combined with the fact that I have an HDD (the way the HDD pagefile accomodates for limited ram) is absolutely a bottleneck.
There are oodles of posts of people on these forums & Reddit attesting that the jump from 8gig to 16gig is big. That said: Different systems, different bottlenecks. Some people's bottleneck may be CPU. Some people might have multiple bottlenecks too. You can have issues from both 8gigs ram being insufficient AND a CPU that struggles.
In Hussars case his bottleneck is his CPU, since its the weakest component of his system. He has 8gigs RAM but he has an SSD, which means his harddrive can accomodate a much faster pagefile than 8gigs RAM and an HDD. Compare my system, similar but better processor, same ram, and an HDD and I get worse performance than he does most likely.
There's no real shortcut to observing your system & its resource usage and locating where your set-ups limits lie.
I have an i5-8400 but 8gigs RAM. RAM usage combined with the fact that I have an HDD (the way the HDD pagefile accomodates for limited ram) is absolutely a bottleneck.
There are oodles of posts of people on these forums & Reddit attesting that the jump from 8gig to 16gig is big. That said: Different systems, different bottlenecks. Some people's bottleneck may be CPU. Some people might have multiple bottlenecks too. You can have issues from both 8gigs ram being insufficient AND a CPU that struggles.
In Hussars case his bottleneck is his CPU, since its the weakest component of his system. He has 8gigs RAM but he has an SSD, which means his harddrive can accomodate a much faster pagefile than 8gigs RAM and an HDD. Compare my system, similar but better processor, same ram, and an HDD and I get worse performance than he does most likely.
There's no real shortcut to observing your system & its resource usage and locating where your set-ups limits lie.