4690k vs 5600x cpu for non gaming

[never_here]

i already know the difference between the CPU's for gaming use.  Whicm pushes me to get one, as i have a 3060ti.  HOWEVER, i dont NEED it need it, as 99% of my gaming needs are met.  Even though i'm being bottle necked hard, i'm still hitting 60FPS on my games, and my monitor is limited to 60hz, and my beat saber still works great. 

HOWEVER, my pc is also shared with my gf.  We both do a lot of web browsing, as well as open up numerous google sheets, tabs, and other stuff.  We dont have any real issues now, but it is, not fast.  Like, for me, i have a chome bookmark folder that would open up 10 tabs instantly, and does take a while to load them all.

Would a newer CPU with m.2 substantially increase the speed of our PC?  The upgrade is also for windows 11 use case, as for 2025, windows 10 security updates will not be maintained.  I haven't used a newer pc, only my dell latitude for work with an 8th gen i5, but its a laptop cpu, so, despite it does do certain things faster, its pretty much the same speed as my desktop. 

Or, i might as well wait.  I'm just seeing a lot of nice discounts these days.  Also, the side benefit for me with upgrade is higher framerates on Warzone 2, but its not my main game anyways, and i'm still hitting 60fps, but i will hit low 30's at some points. 

[PDifolco]

If you need tons of Chrome tabs open you need RAM (16GB+), not specifically a faster CPU

A M2 can help loading stuff quickly, way faster than a HDD but is not much faster than a SSD

A 6C/12T 5600X will be a significant upgrade to an old 4C/4T 4690K, esp. because the 4690K don't have hyperthreading, you immediately fill the CPU with not much stuff

 

[Hinjima]

The 5600x will demolish the 4690k in productivity and multiple tabs open use. 

[invaderSnarf]

If you are looking to upgrade from a 4690k to a Ryzen, you are going to have to make a whole new build as they have different CPU slots. You would need to upgrade to a different intel CPU if you don't want to build a whole other pc. 

 

Also, @PDifolco is correct, if you are seeing slowdown with chrome tabs its more likely a ram issue over CPU and upgrading to a faster CPU is not going to do much in terms of speeding that up. 

[never_here]

2 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

The 5600x will demolish the 4690k in productivity and multiple tabs open use. 

is there a video for this?  i kinda want to see how much faster.  all i see is gaming benchmarks and FPS differences. 

[Tan3l6]

7 minutes ago, never_here said:

is there a video for this?  i kinda want to see how much faster.  all i see is gaming benchmarks and FPS differences. 

They are so far apart that no real benchmarking site is comparing them I think.

... synthetic benchmarks also show a great difference.

[never_here]

5 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

If you need tons of Chrome tabs open you need RAM (16GB+), not specifically a faster CPU

A M2 can help loading stuff quickly, way faster than a HDD but is not much faster than a SSD

A 6C/12T 5600X will be a significant upgrade to an old 4C/4T 4690K, esp. because the 4690K don't have hyperthreading, you immediately fill the CPU with not much stuff

 

oh, i already have 16GB of ram, SSD 870 PRO 250GB OS, mx500 1tb as game drive.  The google sheets generally run slower, also because we have lots of data i guess.  And wow, i always thought i had Hyperthreading, haha... ops.
 

[OhYou_]

m.2 with a dram cache is massively faster than even dram sata ssd. Most people dont see the benefit for some reason because it is very subtle, but it is a great addition.
other benefits would be faster ram and cache which do help a bit with general usability.

 

but all that being said the differences are subtle and probably not worth the money for now. the 4690k is way more cpu than you need for web browsing. I'd just skip till at the very least ryzen 7000 series or wait till your needs change.

[never_here]

Just now, OhYou_ said:

m.2 with a dram cache is massively faster than even dram sata ssd. Most people dont see the benefit for some reason because it is very subtle, but it is a great addition.
other benefits would be faster ram and cache which do help a bit with general usability.

 

but all that being said the differences are subtle and probably not worth the money for now. the 4690k is way more cpu than you need for web browsing. I'd just skip till at the very least ryzen 7000 series or wait till your needs change.

ya, i read that m.2 is massively faster.  on a macbook, you can see the difference pretty easily.  What i hate now, is that i cant find a local shop that has window PC's with good internet connected.  Apple stores just seem like apple devices are MASSIVELY better because, they are in working condition, with apps you can actually test the hardware with. 
Windows pcs just have nothing, it frustrates me.  I gota say, its the one reason why i like apple stores.  you can legit USE their devices before having to buy it
 

3 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

They are so far apart that no real benchmarking site is comparing them I think.

this is one of the issues.  I can see a lot of benefits of a new cpu for obvious reasons.  But, without a clear comparison, its, hard to see.  Gamer Nexus did a good video on this, but its also hard to actually see it.  Unlike lets say, iphone speed tests vs samsung speedtests, you can visually see, its like, wowwww, its the same speed almost. 

I kinda wana see how a 5600x or newer cpu handles general tasks.  

[OhYou_]

7 minutes ago, never_here said:

But, without a clear comparison, its, hard to see.

you cant show a clear comparison because there is no difference. It is something you can maybe feel a slight difference if you're the one there using it, but otherwise it's whatever.

Maybe there would be a slight difference in some sites if you have a 10gb/s connection to the internet but otherwise eh.
I end up using a large spread of computers at my work every day with massively varying performance and past the point of like kaby lake laptops there's just no difference at all for stuff like office online, sharepoint, outlook, random websites, installing programs, general office use.

 

No one is going to talk about it because you cant sell people on new hardware that does nothing for them.

[never_here]

Just now, OhYou_ said:

No one is going to talk about it because you cant sell people on new hardware that does nothing for them.

i guess.  feel like non-gamers and production people can use any computer at this point.  I just want to see if theres a noticeable improvement from getting an upgrade other than like 60more fps on my games. 

[Mister Woof]

Intel security fixes really screw over those generation of chips in even daily tasks like windows updates.

 

I would update for those alone.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Chrome felt faster for me upgrading to an i5-12400F from my old Haswell Xeon E3-1231v3 (it's an i7-4790 without an ipu) despite both systems running with 16GB of RAM. The Xeon with 16GB DDR3-2400 and the 12400F with 16GB DDR4-3200, both 2x8GB kits in dual channel. I usually have 20+ tabs open. Then again for all I know it could have been from having 8 year old thermal paste on my Xeon.

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

3 hours ago, never_here said:

i already know the difference between the CPU's for gaming use.  Whicm pushes me to get one, as i have a 3060ti.  HOWEVER, i dont NEED it need it, as 99% of my gaming needs are met.  Even though i'm being bottle necked hard, i'm still hitting 60FPS on my games, and my monitor is limited to 60hz, and my beat saber still works great. 

HOWEVER, my pc is also shared with my gf.  We both do a lot of web browsing, as well as open up numerous google sheets, tabs, and other stuff.  We dont have any real issues now, but it is, not fast.  Like, for me, i have a chome bookmark folder that would open up 10 tabs instantly, and does take a while to load them all.

Would a newer CPU with m.2 substantially increase the speed of our PC?  The upgrade is also for windows 11 use case, as for 2025, windows 10 security updates will not be maintained.  I haven't used a newer pc, only my dell latitude for work with an 8th gen i5, but its a laptop cpu, so, despite it does do certain things faster, its pretty much the same speed as my desktop. 

Or, i might as well wait.  I'm just seeing a lot of nice discounts these days.  Also, the side benefit for me with upgrade is higher framerates on Warzone 2, but its not my main game anyways, and i'm still hitting 60fps, but i will hit low 30's at some points. 

The 5600x will blow the doors off a 4690k. That cpu is like 10 years old. Even in basic web browsing it will be faster.

[freeagent]

I went from a 3770K to a 5600X. The 5600X is the better CPU by far, for everything.

 

Its probably more power efficient too

[57chevy]

You can try and take a look at this one.  In their benchmark productivity tests from a different video, the 5600x is essentially trading punches with the 10700k.  So substitute 5600x for 10700K and you have a general idea of the differences.