3700x or 5600x?

[Niko_Papasta]

Budget (including currency): 

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Games

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Hi all,

 

I currently have an r5 1600 and an Asus strix b350f, and am looking to upgrade, playing at 1440p.

 

I can get an R7 3700x for 510 AUD (386.67 USD) and pop it straight into my b350, or I can get a 5600x for $469 AUD (355 USD) as well as getting a new b550 mobo, $169 AUD (128.13 USD), meaning I can get the 3700x for $386 USD or get the 5600x for $486 USD. I know the 5600x is better, but is it $100 better?

 

Thanks for reading,

Niko.

[boggy77]

If only gaming, get the 3600

[Moonzy]

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Can you sell your old stuffs? To make up for the $100

[Niko_Papasta]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

What's the use case here?

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Can you sell your old stuffs? To make up for the $100

Yeah I apologise. Pretty much just for gaming, and yeah, I could sell the old cpu and mobo.

[Bombastinator]

3700x will be slower for gaming and some productivity but faster for other productivity.  I would say it’s main intangible at this point is that because it’s 8/16 it’s pretty close to impossible for someone to write a console game that can’t be made to run on it. It is fast enough for 1440p though. For $100 it becomes a pretty tough call. If your main program is photoshop 5000 series.  If it’s blender 3000 series. For current games 5000 series. For games a few years from now it’s murky. 

[Moonzy]

Just now, Niko_Papasta said:

Yeah I apologise. Pretty much just for gaming, and yeah, I could sell the old cpu and mobo.

Then the 5600 would make more sense for gaming, the 2 extra cores are nice but not really utilised by many current games

 

You'll get better fps if you're CPU bound in term of single threaded performance, or else you won't see much difference between 3700x or 5600x

 

So it depends on what genre of games you play, competitive games where CPU thread performance is important, or AAA games where GPU is most likely the bottleneck?

 

And do you multitask while gaming? Streaming?

[Niko_Papasta]

4 hours ago, Moonzy said:

Then the 5600 would make more sense for gaming, the 2 extra cores are nice but not really utilised by many current games

 

You'll get better fps if you're CPU bound in term of single threaded performance, or else you won't see much difference between 3700x or 5600x

 

So it depends on what genre of games you play, competitive games where CPU thread performance is important, or AAA games where GPU is most likely the bottleneck?

 

And do you multitask while gaming? Streaming?

Not really, pretty much gaming and a little school work.

[Bombastinator]

7 minutes ago, Niko_Papasta said:

Not really, pretty much gaming and a little school work.

5000 would be faster.  3700x is likely still fast enough though.  You’ll get more fps out of the 5000 with current games.  If you need them.  It’s entirely possible that a lot of games in the future will be fine with 12 threads in which case the 5000 is flat out faster.  It only when things use more than 12 threads that the 3700x even has a chance to catch up.  For blender or cinebench or something where a program will fill up as many threads offered it the extra 4 threads of the 3700x make it faster. 

[Moonzy]

3 hours ago, Niko_Papasta said:

Not really, pretty much gaming and a little school work.

I would pick the 3700x option, less hassle to board swap and such

It's still a good chip for games