What to do with my 5600X

[Y33]

I was lucky enough to get hold of a 5600X at launch. Even though I had my doubts about it I just went ahead since I have 30 days to decide whether or not I return it.

I'm currently running an i5 6600K and was actually thinking of upgrading to the Ryzen 3600 a while back, but decided to wait out the 5000 launch. My PC is mostly used for software development and gaming (1440p - 60Hz monitor, currently using a GTX 1060, hoping to get a 3060 Ti or whatever will be a bit cheaper than the 3070). I don't play competitive stuff and have been happy with the approx. 50 fps I can get now. Most info I can find suggests that the advantage of the 5600X's single thread performance is most (if not only) noticeable in 1080p.

 

This (perhaps falsely) leads me to the conclusion that I won't be benefiting much from the 5600X compared to the 3600X, the latter of which sells for a good 120 Euros less here (enough for a new MOBO which I also need, coming from Intel). Or I could get a 3700X for the same price I've paid for the 5600X and have those two extra cores.

 

Is this indeed the case? What would you guys suggest?

[Fasauceome]

6 minutes ago, Y33 said:

This (perhaps falsely) leads me to the conclusion that I won't be benefiting much from the 5600X compared to the 3600X, the latter of which sells for a good 120 Euros less here

depends on the type of software development you do, but the 5600X could have a seriously improved performance for your compiling, with its pretty massive single threaded performance advantage.

 

In gaming, the 3600 would have been fine for your 60Hz target, but on the other hand, feel free to upgrade your monitor to a 1440p 144Hz monitor, as it would be quite the improvement to the experience in the future.

[boggy77]

it seems that in most professional applications the 5600x has the same performance as the 3700x making its 2 core advantage dissapear and it's about 20% faster in gaming at 1080p, probably around 15% at 1440p. if you think those 15% in gaming are worth 120 euros (i think they are), go for the 5600x or 3600. the 3700x doesn't really make sense now, since it;s the same price as the 5600x for less gaming performance and same professional performance.

[xg32]

31 minutes ago, Y33 said:

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the 5060x is a great cpu, just keep it and enjoy, 3700x is alot worse in gaming and about the same in everything else.

[Y33]

1 hour ago, Fasauceome said:

depends on the type of software development you do, but the 5600X could have a seriously improved performance for your compiling, with its pretty massive single threaded performance advantage.

I though compile times benefited from multi-thread performance, but I could very well be wrong. Most of my development is web and desktop in .NET, so noteworthy improvements in Visual Studio compile / build times with the 5600 compared to the 3600 would really help justify the extra cost.

 

1 hour ago, Fasauceome said:

In gaming, the 3600 would have been fine for your 60Hz target, but on the other hand, feel free to upgrade your monitor to a 1440p 144Hz monitor, as it would be quite the improvement to the experience in the future.

Personally I think I'd sooner make the switch to 4K for content consumption rather than a higher refresh rate monitor, just a matter of opinion off course. For foreseeable future this will sadly be out of my budget anyway...

 

1 hour ago, boggy77 said:

it seems that in most professional applications the 5600x has the same performance as the 3700x making its 2 core advantage dissapear and it's about 20% faster in gaming at 1080p, probably around 15% at 1440p. if you think those 15% in gaming are worth 120 euros (i think they are), go for the 5600x or 3600. the 3700x doesn't really make sense now, since it;s the same price as the 5600x for less gaming performance and same professional performance.

Wouldn't this change when more applications and games start taking advantage of higher thread counts?