5600x for 299$ or 3900x for 329$?

[paasne]

Title says it I guess. Due too MSI cashback, and other local rebat, I would be able to get a 3900x for only 30$ more than what the 5600x assumely will end up costing (from europe, so prices might not be fixed yet).
This offer only last untill the end of oktober, so waiting for benchmark is unfortunatly not an option.

I don't do any kind of productivity work, pretty much only school and gaming.

Do you guys think it will be worth it to get the 3900x over the 5600x? It's twice the amount of cores, and same turbo clock speed. But how many games, if any, uses more than 6 cores now, and then there is the IPC increase for the 5600x to account for.

 

What would you do?

 

 

[dizmo]

No. 5600x wins.

[Fasauceome]

the answer is extremely straightforward. Gaming? 5600X. Productivity? 3900X. The advantage of each is night and day, 12 cores vs 6, massive single threaded performance difference.

2 minutes ago, paasne said:

I don't do any kind of productivity work, pretty much only school and gaming

basically the solution is here.

[paasne]

3 minutes ago, dizmo said:

No. 5600x wins.

 

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

the answer is extremely straightforward. Gaming? 5600X. Productivity? 3900X. The advantage of each is night and day, 12 cores vs 6, massive single threaded performance difference.

basically the solution is here.

 

Thank you both!