Which AMD Ryzen is Better For Gaming or Neither?

[One Touch Gamers]

I am trying to put/or get put together a good gaming machine and have the choice between the following chips. As the company is awaiting its charitable status to be approved, I can’t look for other items so I thought that I would ask about these two in advance. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
 

https://www.amazon.ca/AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-Processor-YD295XA8AFWOF/dp/B07GFN6CVF/ref=rvi_sccl_5/138-6154622-6762910?pd_rd_w=NdcZY&content-id=amzn1.sym.8b4d8c20-8e51-4634-a76f-c00a1995a502&pf_rd_p=8b4d8c20-8e51-4634-a76f-c00a1995a502&pf_rd_r=KFQYJERHAZNQV3YVASXX&pd_rd_wg=4KYmV&pd_rd_r=a14637b7-4935-48c4-9f90-3cb7e78e1706&pd_rd_i=B07GFN6CVF&psc=1
 
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https://www.amazon.ca/AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-Processor-YD295XA8AFWOF/dp/B07G25SD1P/ref=rvi_sccl_3/138-6154622-6762910?pd_rd_w=NdcZY&content-id=amzn1.sym.8b4d8c20-8e51-4634-a76f-c00a1995a502&pf_rd_p=8b4d8c20-8e51-4634-a76f-c00a1995a502&pf_rd_r=KFQYJERHAZNQV3YVASXX&pd_rd_wg=4KYmV&pd_rd_r=a14637b7-4935-48c4-9f90-3cb7e78e1706&pd_rd_i=B07PDVGYW2&th=1

 

 

[Ryuikko]

For gaming? Neither. wayyy to overkill and might be worse since iirc the 2950x has pretty low clock speed, since most games are single core applications.

I'd get a 12700f  or 12900f if you feel like splurging 

[An0maly_76]

Both are extreme overkill. I have a 12-core, 24-thread 5900X and that is overkill for gaming. You can build an entire system for about half the cost of one of these processors.

[One Touch Gamers]

Overkill is just fine with me as I have been offered my choice the two for no charge. I explained that I can’t issue tax receipts for donations yet but they were fine with that.

[RadiatingLight]

Like others said: neither are good.

2000 series means it's using the old Zen+ architecture, which wasn't that great for gaming even when it came out. Plus, Threadrippers have lower clockspeeds, the motherboards are more expensive, and there's no benefit to that many cores for gaming.

 

If you're buying a new build, today's best Gaming CPUs are the Ryzen 5800X3D and anything 12600K or better in Intel's 12th gen lineup.

[RadiatingLight]

1 minute ago, One Touch Gamers said:

Overkill is just fine with me as I have been offered my choice the two for no charge. I explained that I can’t issue tax receipts for donations yet but they were fine with that.

If they're free, obviously take them, but I still wouldn't use them for gaming. The low single-core performance and high multicore performance makes them good for stuff like video rendering, virtualization, etc. Maybe consider selling them?

If you use it for yourself, you'll still end up spending several hundreds on an X399 motherboard, and the performance you get in gaming will be significantly worse than a 5600X + B550 motherboard (or 12400F + B660 motherboard), which are both similarly priced or even cheaper than an X399 motherboard alone.

[aisle9]

18 minutes ago, One Touch Gamers said:

Overkill is just fine with me as I have been offered my choice the two for no charge. I explained that I can’t issue tax receipts for donations yet but they were fine with that.

If it's free, take the 2990WX, sell it for $1,200 US (CAD equivalent) on eBay, take the $1,050 USD of that you keep after fees and buy a 5800X3D, a nice X570 board and 32 GB of the fastest B-die RAM you can find.

[dizmo]

Threadripper isn't a good gaming CPU.

What do you mean by charitable status?

[One Touch Gamers]

1 hour ago, aisle9 said:

If it's free, take the 2990WX, sell it for $1,200 US (CAD equivalent) on eBay, take the $1,050 USD of that you keep after fees and buy a 5800X3D, a nice X570 board and 32 GB of the fastest B-die RAM you can find.

As the 2990WX will come BNIB, do you think that $1200 US is all I can get for it?

[aisle9]

1 hour ago, One Touch Gamers said:

As the 2990WX will come BNIB, do you think that $1200 US is all I can get for it?

I have no idea. You’ll have to check eBay in your area.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Get the 2990wx and resell it, im not exactly sure how much its worth nowadays considering epyc 7551 (which are actually overclockable) go for 400$ ish on ebay and its basically the same thing as the 2990 but more ram channels and fancy server stuff with lower clocks (fixed by ocing)

 

3 hours ago, aisle9 said:

If it's free, take the 2990WX, sell it for $1,200 US (CAD equivalent) on eBay, take the $1,050 USD of that you keep after fees and buy a 5800X3D, a nice X570 board and 32 GB of the fastest B-die RAM you can find.

X570 and bdie are just needless wastes of money btw, x570 is just straight up useless for most ppl (good b550 like the aorus pro p/ax and pg velocita are in teh 130-160$ range) and bdie runs best at the highest volt you can give it (1.75v capped before maxmem) and thats not exactly worth it when a 4x8 2666 crucial bare pcb with c9bjz or d9wsm oced to 3600/3800 c14/16 will get very close performance wise, aka ram speed doesnt matter that much and ludicrous oc is just for flexing reasons

 

The 5800x3d = 12900ks in gaming performance so niche but potentially worth it for some, i would suggest going for a 12600k or 12700f + h670/z690 board instead just because cheaper

[mike_seps]

6 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

X570 and bdie are just needless wastes of money btw

x570 boards support more PCIe 4.0 lanes and better VRMs (usually), and better I/O vis USB. I don't know if I would call that a waste of money

[Somerandomtechyboi]

7 minutes ago, mike_seps said:

x570 boards support more PCIe 4.0 lanes and better VRMs (usually), and better I/O vis USB. I don't know if I would call that a waste of money

B550 taichi, aorus pro ac, better features vs stuff like x570 tomahawk

 

Vrms depends on board model so thats garbage, i/o is also board based not chipset based (but seems more chipset based in older 400 and 300 series boards), you dont need more than 20 lanes of gen4, gen4 ssds are already useless piles of trash that only cater to a niche market like vid editors or whoever needs 7000+ r/w which does not apply to gamers thats for sure (other than ps5 but thats an arbitrary limit)

 

Sorry but other than the chipset features themselves everything else is board dependant so claims of better vrms and sht just falls apart

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