I see this more and more on Rain:
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Can you not move away from Rain once you move?
I think the above is a result of someone reporting the IP.
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Yeah going to get fibre when I move if all goes well.
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So I’m looking to get a 5600x but can’t afford a GPU upgrade as well, so would the 5600x give the RX480 a problem?
Your swap file is huge, almost as much as your used RAM. I’m clueless when it comes to OS X, but that’s where I’d start at least.
Basically half of the stuff you need to be storing in RAM is being constantly being read from and written to your hard drives, and if the drives are mechanical, it’s not going to be a good time.
Not sure if there’s a OS X equivalent, but in windows I’d normally use resource monitor as a starting point to check where the bottlenecks are.
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What CPU do you have currently? Unless its ancient I’d recommend getting a new GPU rather than upgrade the CPU
High swap is not indicative of too little ram. That’s not how posix OS’ work. You have a healthy dose of hybrid applications running. Which is to say, bloat JavaScript framework based applications trying to pretend to be natively compiled generally faster and snappier applications. My guess is that’s where the sluggishness comes from. But, what exactly is your idea of sluggishness? Too much touchy-feely performance measurement and too little actual benchmark. Then again it’s difficult to measure user event to perceived execution objectively.
Lastly, since you have a Mac, you’re probably using an nvme or m.2 based drive already. You can’t buy a Mac with spinning rust nowadays.
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Based on your motherboard and ram and drive configuration, I would rather look for a faster AMD 3000 series CPU. I suspect you won’t see much of difference in performance in both game running and load times. Your GPU is also already so far behind your CPU, it’s probably a nice chunky bottleneck in your system.
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Firstly, thank you for your meaningful and relatable response. It makes complete sense as to what you’re saying and how you explain it. Thank you.
Secondly, I am not one to complain about my tools until they directly compromise or hinder my workflow or efficiency. The primary role of my MacBook is to design, first and foremost. That being said, as I am sure you’ve seen, my primary tools are Figma and Sketch. These are vector-based design tools with an “unlimited” canvas, so as I work with high-fidelity mockups and the artboards just grow exponentially, so does the actual file, and as I expect this will impact performance.
To give an example. By sluggish I refer to something like Sketch; while working (scrolling, zooming, panning, selecting multiple layers, etc.) I will notice that my cursor will occasionally “stutter” as if there was a bit of lag. Or drag and selecting this will cause a bit of a delay as to what is currently selected in correlation to where my cursor is.
I hope this makes sense, I’m trying to explain as best I can without sharing my screen or hosting a virtual seminar. 
@jaydogg86 I’ve got a Ryzen 3500X as a stop gap until I can snag a 5600X. For gaming purposes it’s 6 cores (no threading) does the job. Even new they’re less than R3000
Then you could sell your current GPU and get something decent as a replacement
Since Figma is javascript/typescript based. Perhaps it’s stuttering cos of online lookups? So, I’d start with adding in your own DNS, as opposed to your ISP’s dns. Using a slower responding DNS with essentially webapps, can cause stutter sometimes. Put another way, using a truly blistering DNS, can make web browsing and indeed, any web-based-local applications, feel much more snappy, just because the initial request lookup response faster. You can use cloudflare (1.1.1.1), google (8.8.8.8) or any reputable public DNS server. Personally, I’m using dns.watch. I also recommend this, cos it’s least effort, quick to test, with no noticeable downside.
I’d also do a little temperature monitoring as a precaution. Are your fans spinning up? Though, this is something you follow more closely, if EVERYTHING on your computer is under-performing.
And then, has Figma been updated, since last it ran better? It could just be that the newer version is shaait.
Next, what is the CPU usage on background apps, while you’re using Figma? Could it be, whatever you have in the background is now pushing your CPU and system a little over the limit of keeping all running applications smooth? This may need some monitoring and logging, so you can look up CPU over time, at anyone time, and cross-reference with when you experienced the stutter in your main application.
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There aren’t many 3600X’s flying around these days, so it’s going to be hard to come by one.
I have done a bit of research and it seems that getting a better CPU does do some improvements with regards to performance in relation to the GPU
But I want to get a 6 or 8 core Ryzen
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So asking an opinion is bad?
Argh, why are GPUs so damned expensive! The cheapest 8gb I can find is about R10k, that is insane.
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Yep, it’s crazy. I could easily sell my 3 year old GPU today for more than it retailed brand new.
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I always skip a generation or 2 when buying GPUs. But I guess I might never buy one again…
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It’s ok, the apocalypse is coming. And then we can all hunt food with spears
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