Is it worth paying the extra money for a Ryzen 5 3600 if you are on a budget ?

[Justaphysicsnerd]

I just wanted to know if its worth paying the extra money for a R5 3600 when you can get like a 10400 from Intel or even go with a Ryzen 3 3100 or 3300x ?

 

[nox_]

Depends. If the pc is used mostly for gaming, no. If used for actual work, yes.

[jj9987]

Depends on what you will be using it for. i5-10400 is quite a bit less performant in some workloads compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. For purely gaming, the difference isn't that big.

If you are on a budget, the motherboard choice can also affect your total cost.

[Justaphysicsnerd]

29 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

Depends on what you will be using it for. i5-10400 is quite a bit less performant in some workloads compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. For purely gaming, the difference isn't that big.

If you are on a budget, the motherboard choice can also affect your total cost.

Is it worth getting the 2600 then because I can get it just for a few bucks more than the 3100 ? And yes I would be doing other stuff on a PC.

[nox_]

1 minute ago, Justaphysicsnerd said:

And yes I would be doing other stuff on a PC.

What stuff? Editing videos?Streaming?

[Justaphysicsnerd]

2 minutes ago, nox_ said:

What stuff? Editing videos?Streaming?

Like Blender, coding in C++ and python , Game engines stuff and maybe just maybe a bit of video production. And of course gaming !

[nox_]

Just now, Justaphysicsnerd said:

Like Blender, coding in C++ and python , Game engines stuff and maybe just maybe a bit of video production. And of course gaming !

Then go for 3600 ideally or 2600.

[Mark Kaine]

3600 is the minimum going forward, has been since last year. 

 

 

From my point of view view getting something lesser is indeed wasting money, if you're rich no problem, on a budget you need to be smart with buying decisions. 

[mahyar]

15 minutes ago, Justaphysicsnerd said:

Like Blender, coding in C++ and python , Game engines stuff and maybe just maybe a bit of video production. And of course gaming !

blender maybe worth going with 3600 for programming no and game engines are mostly favor intel

[AngryBeaver]

Just to chime in... if you can wait another month or so for the AMD 5 series to launch then you could save a bunch of money on the 3 series and/or pick up a better 5 series chip for a tad more. If price drops happen like they have in the past you might even be able to jump to a 3700 or 3800 for around the same price as the 3600 now.