Can't decide between 5600x and 10700KF

[richienko]

Hope you all are doing well!

 

I'm planning to upgrade my home PC (i5 3570k) because it's driving me nuts when I'm working.

So after many hours of research online (I would say I gave it ~12 hours of searching and reading, making tables etc) I just cannot decide between 10700KF (kf as I dont need iGPU) and 5600x.

Both cpus are well stocked in my country so that should not be a problem.

 

Problem is that I just can't decide for one. I was looking for compile benchmarks on https://openbenchmarking.org/ mainly beacuse of pretty big database of compilation benchmarks. WARNING: RANT START -> I'm programmer, so compilation and Gradle benchmarks are big priority. LTT are benchmarking compilation times for compiling Mozilla Firefox. For many programmers I know, this test has little - to no value for us. Mozilla Firefox is celestial, gargantuan, well branched and structured codebase and it's very well made for fast compile times. Us mortals make smaller projects (not well structured, ain't nobody have time for this) using Unity3D (roslyn compiler), Android studio (gradle build, DEX compiler), Visual Studio (compiler depends on project), IntelliJ etc, Python, XCode on macs (or hackinthosh) etc. <- RANT END

 

Having very good game performance is big plus. So I would say my priority is divided by 50:45:5 between compilation:gaming:rendering.

I ended up comparing total of 4 CPUs: 10700KF, 9900KF, 5600x, 3800x. I know the title is about 2 CPUs, but I did a little bit research on these other models (I have 9900K in my office and it's pleasure working on it).

Want to buy Arctic Freezer II 280 - mainly because of performance/price as I don't care about RGB. With that I should be able to overclock and keep temperatures low enough for good long life of CPU (I think). I would buy 360 version, but as nexusgamers noted what orientation the radiator should be in front mount, the 360 version does not have long enough tubes I think.

 

 

So here is the list of info relating to my build:

I will be using my current 1070gtx in new build.

Prices in my area (in USD):

10700KF	420
9900KF	427
5600x	373
3800x	392

- All prices are relatively in the same ballpark I think - I would sacrifice 50 coins if it will help

- As I know myself I will never upgrade CPU once it's in the PC.

- AMD's have better TDP so maybe longer life while overclocked?

- On openbechmarking.org the Intel did beat AMD in almost every compilation benchmark (higher clocks > more cores in this cases).

- AMD's are much better at gaming (altough not sure if it'll make difference on my 1070gtx at 1080p)

 

 

Some other thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

 

[mahyar]

well if you do not need better single performance of zen3 i would go with either 3800x or 10700k/kf