11900k or 5900x

[agoldman99]

Hi guys!

 

I just secured a i9 11900k from Best Buy for retail before it sold out somehow lol. I see it selling for around 900 on eBay right now same price as a 5900x. You think it's better off to keep the 11900k or try and get a 5900x still? I currently am running 32 gb ram and a Asus tuf 3090!

[Sarra]

The 11900k is a toaster compared to the 5900X.

 

I had very seriously been considering a 9900K, but when the 3900X, 3900XT, and 3950X were available...  I bought a 3900XT. Now that the 10900k and 11900k are available, I would personally pick a 5900X over the 10th and 11th gen Intel offerings every time. Then again... I'm probably going to replace my 3900XT with a 5950X. 3900XT will go in a second system.

 

Then again, more cores and dropping into an existing AM4 X570 chipset is a huge bonus. I benefit from more cores in editing.

 

If you're just going to do gaming, I would suggest selling the 11900k and get an 11600k or similar. If you're going to do gaming and light editing, then the 11900k won't kill you, but a 5900X would be better overall in performance.

 

If you're a hardcore video encoder/editor, then get a 5950X.

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2 hours ago, agoldman99 said:

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for a 3090 probably go with a 5950x or 5900x, there's some ambiguity whether the 11900k in gaming with tau removed compared to some of the other cpus, but zen 3 faster in most situations.

[jones177]

If it is for gaming it depends on the resolution you play at.

 

I have a R7 5800X and a i9 10900k. The R7 pulls away at 1080p, trades blows at 1440p and produces the same frames at 4k. 

The R7 is as smooth as my i9 9900k but the i9 10 core is smoother than both of them.

 

So for you it is the i9 boosts vs the R9s cores. I think they will do about the same unless you are a 1080p gamer. 

[Loki0111]

In gaming alone it will be tight between the two though I suspect the 5900X would probably have a slight edge on average. In anything that takes advantage of multi-core performance the 5900X will wipe the floor with the 11900k.

 

In some of the reviews the 5900X was beating out the 11900k by as much as 40% in multi-core workloads.

[hunterhungryhippos]

I have a similar question, so I thought I would ask it here rather than making a new post. I recently purchased an i9-10850k for $370. My goal is high quality 1080p (or 1440p) gaming with a RTX 3070. Is the performance difference there for $100 more than the i5-11600k?  I'm still within the return period. 

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30 minutes ago, hunterhungryhippos said:

I have a similar question, so I thought I would ask it here rather than making a new post. I recently purchased an i9-10850k for $370. My goal is high quality 1080p (or 1440p) gaming with a RTX 3070. Is the performance difference there for $100 more than the i5-11600k?  I'm still within the return period. 

that's a tough one, depending on the game i guess, you'd still have more cores, i still wouldnt go out of my way to downgrade to 6/12 even though it might be faster in some games. GN's cpu BARELY got 5.0 at 1.41v which isn't what i'd use 24/7, i'd only consider returning the 10850k if it's a complete lemon on oc.

 

tbh i was impressed with the 11600k numbers, and it wasn't even a supertune, there's around a 15-20% ipc improvement.