I9-10900K vs Ryzen 9 3950X for Professional Esports

[Lord Vile]

13 hours ago, Zberg said:

If you can wait, wait for ryzen 4000 series performance reveal and 3080ti. (something in ryzen 4000 might edge out intel, maybe the 4800x or 4900x?)

 

If you need to buy now, 10900k and 2080ti will saturate your 240hz monitor better than anything else on the market.  

 

That is all

But has no upgrade path and won’t actually run anything faster than the AMD chip. At high both run esports titles well over 200 nevermind at comp settings which are the lowest or next door to. 

[xg32]

7 hours ago, Harit Paurana said:

Dude is it a long wait for the 3080Ti? I'm not as enthusiastic about the R4000 series but I really care about the 3080Ti, as I've heard it delivers 40% more performance than the 2080Ti. Any idea when the 3080Ti might come out? Also should I care about the 360hz monitors that are gonna be coming?

if i wasn't too lazy to post and ship out something during covid i'd be selling my turing cards right about now, rumored specs of the rtx 3xxx series is +40% and +300% on dxr performance. There's already a cpu issue at 240hz, wouldn't wait for 360hz, i personally don't wait for monitors for builds as they tend to be improve much slower than internal pc hardware.

[Zberg]

1 hour ago, Lord Vile said:

But has no upgrade path and won’t actually run anything faster than the AMD chip. At high both run esports titles well over 200 nevermind at comp settings which are the lowest or next door to. 

Upgrade paths, IMO, are more useful for low to mid range CPUs.  I wanted an upgrade path when I built my 2600 system because it had some room to catch up to other GPUs I might potentially throw in it.  

 

Most people that built an 8700k or 9900k system didnt really care about an upgrade path because buying a chip that can all core 5.0 ghz and is faster than anything else on the market (at the time) means upgrading next gen will likely not make sense (maybe even for 2 generations).  A decked out gaming rig with a 10900k should not require a CPU upgrade 1 year down the line when the next batch launch.  

 

And isnt 11th gen actually supposed to be compatible with z490 boards?  Again, not that I would even want to upgrade after that point, but isnt there actually an upgrade path.

 

I personally would build a 3950x system if I was going to get really into streaming, to have options to go put it all on the CPU (though NVENC is making that more and more unnecessary).  But I wouldn't buy a 750$ CPU with the intent of an upgrade path to ryzen 4000 in a couple months, would either wait or buy a cheap entry level AMD in that scenario (3300-3600).

[Lord Vile]

33 minutes ago, Zberg said:

Upgrade paths, IMO, are more useful for low to mid range CPUs.  I wanted an upgrade path when I built my 2600 system because it had some room to catch up to other GPUs I might potentially throw in it.  

 

Most people that built an 8700k or 9900k system didnt really care about an upgrade path because buying a chip that can all core 5.0 ghz and is faster than anything else on the market (at the time) means upgrading next gen will likely not make sense (maybe even for 2 generations).  A decked out gaming rig with a 10900k should not require a CPU upgrade 1 year down the line when the next batch launch.  

 

And isnt 11th gen actually supposed to be compatible with z490 boards?  Again, not that I would even want to upgrade after that point, but isnt there actually an upgrade path.

 

I personally would build a 3950x system if I was going to get really into streaming, to have options to go put it all on the CPU (though NVENC is making that more and more unnecessary).  But I wouldn't buy a 750$ CPU with the intent of an upgrade path to ryzen 4000 in a couple months, would either wait or buy a cheap entry level AMD in that scenario (3300-3600).

Helps longevity though, Would rather upgrade to a 4000 series CPU than have to invest in a new platform and maybe RAM at this point for the sake of a few gens. 

 

11th Gen won't be the 10nm though so you wouldn't be getting much performance gain.

 

I'd get a 3700X tbh, Zen is diminishing returns after that point and it can run esports games at 240hz low, siege at over 250 ultra and CSGO at over 500 very high with a 2080Ti. Up it to the succeeding 4000 chip if it's any good. 

[Nena Trinity]

Ryzen 3 3300X or i5-10600K (should be enough)