3600 or 3700x?

[g1G6l35]

Hello there people of the LTT forum!

 

 

I've been looking for a CPU upgrade for a while now, currently running a R5 1500x and with the recent release of Zen2 with Ryzen 3000 series, I was looking around the 150-350 pound range to pair with my RTX 2060 (upgraded from a 680 btw). I saw the 3600 and the 3700x looked quite good but i'm unsure as to what I should get. I should point out now that 95% of the time, I'll be gaming and the other 5% is occasionally making a few videos here and there. Any advice would be amazing :)

[porina]

IMO the 3600 is sufficient and a nice upgrade in itself, but if you have the budget the 3700X could save you some more time while waiting for video encoding.

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, g1G6l35 said:

. I should point out now that 95% of the time, I'll be gaming and the other 5% is occasionally making a few videos here and ther

The R5 3600 is enough, it games pretty much the same as the 3700X and it won't be a sloth at video editing, it's a solid pick for your case.

[g1G6l35]

7 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

The R5 3600 is enough, it games pretty much the same as the 3700X and it won't be a sloth at video editing, it's a solid pick for your case.

Okay that is interesting, if it basically games the same as a 3700x and is almost half the price, I suppose the 3600 would be the one worth getting?

[5x5]

3 minutes ago, g1G6l35 said:

Okay that is interesting, if it basically games the same as a 3700x and is almost half the price, I suppose the 3600 would be the one worth getting?

Yes, the 3600 is better value. Gaming perfoance is almost the same assuming same clocks and RAM config. The extra cache of the R7 is helpful but not worth the price jump in your case. Grab the 3600, update your bios and enjoy life

[Princess Luna]

4 minutes ago, g1G6l35 said:

Okay that is interesting, if it basically games the same as a 3700x and is almost half the price, I suppose the 3600 would be the one worth getting?

Yes, the thing is that the R5 3600 and R7 3700X uses the very same "cores" they also clock about the same with PBO enable... so unless you are going to be multi-tasking like crazy with lots of sideground and background applications running... like if you just open your game and that's it they should game the same since most games still only uses around 6 to 8 threads.

 

This following video can be very en-lighting to you if you have the time to watch it.

 

[g1G6l35]

9 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Yes, the thing is that the R5 3600 and R7 3700X uses the very same "cores" they also clock about the same with PBO enable... so unless you are going to be multi-tasking like crazy with lots of sideground and background applications running... like if you just open your game and that's it they should game the same since most games still only uses around 6 to 8 threads.

 

This following video can be very en-lighting to you if you have the time to watch it.

 

Im actually subbed to this guy im not sure how i missed this video, but its interesting to see how much performance there is in the new lineup. I think I'll be going for the 3600 overall because for that price point it doesnt fall behind too much and comparing it to other cpu's as he said in the video, its like the 8700 from last gen Intel. 

 

 

 

 

Thanks a bunch for the help btw

[porina]

14 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

The extra cache of the R7 is helpful but not worth the price jump in your case.

Wanted to check what you meant by extra cache? The L3 is the same on both. There is more total L2 on the 8 core than 6 core, only because it is fixed per-core, so more cores is more cache, but not in a meaningful way.

[5x5]

29 minutes ago, porina said:

Wanted to check what you meant by extra cache? The L3 is the same on both. There is more total L2 on the 8 core than 6 core, only because it is fixed per-core, so more cores is more cache, but not in a meaningful way.

My mistake, I thought the 3600 had some cache disabled. Yeah, sorry