Ryzen 5 2600 @4.225ghz OC. Worth upgrade?

[hawklen]

Got my non X 2600 chugging along at 4.225ghz, wondering if its worth it to upgrade it to a Ryzen 5 3000 series chip. Mainboard is a MSI B450 Tomahawk Max, ram Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB @ 3200mhz, 16-18-18-36.

[Mister Woof]

For what?

 

Gaming? If so, what is GPU and display? What are your resolution and framerate targets?

[Midnitewolf]

From what I have been seeing stock vs stock, you would see around a 20-25% performance increase with a 3600 vs 2600 however, the 3600 (or any Ryzen 3000 series) doesn't have much OC'ing headroom so I am not sure how much real performance difference you would see over your current set up.   You might want to just wait.  In fact there are some rumors that Ryzen 4000 will be out some time next year though I am not expecting anything until late in the year if it does come out. 

[hawklen]

Gaming. Gigabyte windoforce 2 geforce RTX 2060 6GB OC, 2560x1440 (165hz) Acer Predator monitor. I aim for 60fps.

I'll keep that in mind midnitewolf.

[Mister Woof]

3 minutes ago, hawklen said:

Gaming. Gigabyte windoforce 2 geforce RTX 2060 6GB OC, 2560x1440 (165hz) Acer Predator monitor. I aim for 60fps.

I'll keep that in mind midnitewolf.

Keep it imo.

 

A faster CPU could give you closer to the 165hz refresh, but a 2060 is not going to really get you there at 1440p.

 

If you were on a 2080 super or better a CPU upgrade would be worthwhile for that 165fps target, but that's another discussion.

 

For 60fps you'll be good for quite a while on that 2600 IMO. 

[hawklen]

3 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

Keep it imo.

 

A faster CPU could give you closer to the 165hz refresh, but a 2060 is not going to really get you there at 1440p.

 

If you were on a 2080 super or better a CPU upgrade would be worthwhile for that 165fps target, but that's another discussion.

 

For 60fps you'll be good for quite a while on that 2600 IMO. 

Sounds good. At least I got the 2060 boosted to 2115mhz core heh.

[Mister Woof]

2 minutes ago, hawklen said:

Sounds good. At least I got the 2060 boosted to 2115mhz core heh.

In SOME games it might be worth it to consider 4000 though when it launches.

 

If you play a lot of MMOs and the like I'd grab one of those next year, as stated above by others.

 

FPS minimums tent to improve with higher IPC processors in MMOs

[JoshHendi]

You cant get the 3000 series too much farther than you are right now, and if you don't have a need for extra L3 cache (most average users/gamers wont) I'd spend money elsewhere to improve your experience/setup

[hawklen]

I'll keep an eye on the 4000 in the future. Good advice, thanks guys.

[JoshHendi]

Nice OC on your RAM btw

[hawklen]

1 hour ago, JoshHendi said:

Nice OC on your RAM btw

Thanks, I can hit 3460mhz whatever, but higher timings. Figure 3200 is a nice spot to stick at, b-die samsung chips

[Midnitewolf]

On 12/13/2019 at 5:34 PM, hawklen said:

I'll keep an eye on the 4000 in the future. Good advice, thanks guys.

Saw a bit more information over the weekend, most of it still rumor but it is looking like Ryzen 4000 will likely release Q4 2020.  It will still be on the AM4 socket and gain between 8-15% performance when comparing apples to apples (3700x to 4700x).  They aren't expecting a huge increase in clock speeds, maybe up to +100 mhz.  Oh and I guess there will be an x670 chipset coming out as well.  Again this is RUMOR so take it with a huge grain of salt.  However it this is true and your MB can support it, I think waiting a year to gain a 35-40% boost to your current performance rather than 15-25% you might gain now, would be well worth the wait.