3950x vs 5800x at the same price

[jgv115]

Hey everyone

 

I'm trying to decide on a CPU to buy. I use my PC for predominately productivity tasks - coding, video editing so I have a 4k 60 monitor. I also plan to get a RTX 3080 for games

 

I'm able to get a 3950x used for the same price as the 5800x in my region.

 

Do you think I should go for the 3950x instead?

 

Cheers

[Guest]

No, buy the 5800X.

[Stahlmann]

If you can utilize all 16 cores the 3950X is a better multithread CPU. However, if you have doubts you can utilize the extra 8 cores, go for the 5800X. I'd go with the 5800X myself, as 8 cores still is more than enough for most things and it will do better in most games.

Edited November 6, 2020 by Stahlmann
Corrected misinformation

[Noah0302]

1 minute ago, Stahlmann said:

If you can utilize all 16 cores the 3950X is a better multithread CPU. However, if you have doubts you can utilize the extra 4 cores, go for the 5800X. I'd go with the 5800X myself, as 12 cores still is more than enough for most things and it will do better in most games.

Isnt the 5800X a 8/16 core?

[Stahlmann]

4 minutes ago, Noah0302 said:

Isnt the 5800X a 8/16 core?

Oops sorry, my bad. Of course. Still, it is something OP has to decide. If work is more important, the 3950X is better. If gaming is more important, the 5800X is better. Somehow it's burned into my mind that the X700 CPUs are the 8-cores, mainly because i have a 3700X myself

[Noah0302]

2 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

Oops sorry, my bad. Of course. Still, it is something OP has to decide. If work is more important, the 3950X is better. If gaming is more important, the 5800X is better. Somehow it's burned into my mind that the X700 CPUs are the 8-cores, mainly because i have a 3700X myself

Yeah, I think that the 5800x being seperate form the 5700 is pretty stupid. Just make it the 5700 and 5700x, would make more sense in my book. Or would that create confusion for some people with the Radeon 5700?

[Stahlmann]

Just now, Noah0302 said:

Yeah, I think that the 5800x being seperate form the 5700 is pretty stupid. Just make it the 5700 and 5700x, would make more sense in my book. Or would that create confusion for some people with the Radeon 5700?

I noticed the GPU confusion too. When i was looking for a 5600X i got listings from 5600XT GPUs all the time. I really hope people didn't buy GPUs by accident because they thought it was a CPU...