3800xt VS 5600X at the same price what is more worth?

[NvidiaLoverIntel]

I picked up the 3800xt on boxing day for 429 and i just got a call for my backordered 5600x at 419 that i made 2 months ago. Should I return my 3800xt from amazon and pick up the 5600x? which is more worth? I mainly game but have been streaming recently and I do have more 3d modeling work scheduled this year and possibly making some videos with davinci resolve on the side for fun. is the faster IPC on the 5600x equivalent to the 3800xt in these applications with the 2 extra cores?

[narrdarr]

What motherboard?

[Mling]

18 minutes ago, NvidiaLoverIntel said:

Should I return my 3800xt from amazon and pick up the 5600x?

return both and get the 5800x

[narrdarr]

I should also ask what GPU?

[NvidiaLoverIntel]

4 minutes ago, narrdarr said:

What motherboard?

this system is on a msi b550 tomahawk

[cm992]

Since you're mostly gaming the 5600X would be better

[NvidiaLoverIntel]

24 minutes ago, narrdarr said:

I should also ask what GPU?

3070

[Action_Johnson]

Yes the 5600X will be better for a dual use situation. 

[Purgent]

5600x definitely

[narrdarr]

I agree 5600x. 

[jwwagner25]

I was in same exact situation , got the 3800xt for $330 and the 5600x ended up arriving a week later. Ultimately I sold the 5600x for a $75 profit, and kept the 3800xt. 

 

However that was three weeks ago...I have since bought and sold enough 5600x's to pay for the 5800x arriving in a few days. Will sell the 3800xt locally at cost. 

 

The other bonus if you keep the 5600x, you can use stock cooler. Whereas the 3800xt needs something beefy (preferably liquid) to keep cool. 

 

 

[jwwagner25]

13 hours ago, NvidiaLoverIntel said:

I picked up the 3800xt on boxing day for 429 and i just got a call for my backordered 5600x at 419 that i made 2 months ago. Should I return my 3800xt from amazon and pick up the 5600x? which is more worth? I mainly game but have been streaming recently and I do have more 3d modeling work scheduled this year and possibly making some videos with davinci resolve on the side for fun. is the faster IPC on the 5600x equivalent to the 3800xt in these applications with the 2 extra cores?

sorry for the double post but to answer your question, no, the IPC does not make up for having two fewer cores. cinebenchr20 multi-core on 5600x was around 4700 at best with 4.7ghz all-core OC. 3800xt max score is around 5200 stock. No real room for OC on the one I have. 

 

people over-estimate the single core advantage of the zen3 parts. Yes, it's better than zen2. But 3800xt single thread is really not that far behind. r20 single core of 530, vs 560ish for 5600x.

 

If you plan on doing anything other than gaming, I think you'd be better off going for the 8 core cpu..just make sure you have a good cooler for it. 

[-Strelok-]

2 hours ago, jwwagner25 said:

sorry for the double post but to answer your question, no, the IPC does not make up for having two fewer cores. cinebenchr20 multi-core on 5600x was around 4700 at best with 4.7ghz all-core OC. 3800xt max score is around 5200 stock. No real room for OC on the one I have. 

 

people over-estimate the single core advantage of the zen3 parts. Yes, it's better than zen2. But 3800xt single thread is really not that far behind. r20 single core of 530, vs 560ish for 5600x.

 

If you plan on doing anything other than gaming, I think you'd be better off going for the 8 core cpu..just make sure you have a good cooler for it. 

5600X single thread score is 600+, not 560. 

[jwwagner25]

22 hours ago, -Strelok- said:

5600X single thread score is 600+, not 560. 

thank you sherlock. nothing is concrete and at stock on my motherboard it was getting between 550 and 575. Unless you were at my house and saw the numbers for yourself, and also I am blind and cannot read. That's possible, right?