What CPU should I get for game developing?

[waiaor]

Budget (including currency): not an issue...

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Unreal Engine 4/5, some games (Minecraft, Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Squadrons)

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): GPU RX 7900XTX

RAM 64 gigabytes.

CPU I am wondering if I should get a High End consumer chip, such as a Core i9-13900K or a Ryzen 9 7950X, or an Intel Xeon w7 3455 (Sapphire Rapids), or a Threadripper Pro 5965WX?

 

[SorryBella]

5 hours ago, waiaor said:

CPU I am wondering if I should get a High End consumer chip, such as a Core i9-13900K or a Ryzen 9 7950X, or an Intel Xeon w7 3455 (Sapphire Rapids), or a Threadripper Pro 5965WX?

I mean how critical is it to the point where you think youll need ECC? If you dont need it going consumer with either of em would be fine, theyre neck in neck in performance. If you are in the fence, the 7000 series does have unofficial Unbuffered ECC support, but shopping for them can be hell and a half so refer to other people's ECC experience with the board youre looking at. 

[filpo]

On 4/3/2023 at 12:40 AM, SorryClaire said:

I mean how critical is it to the point where you think youll need ECC?

I agree, only really critical (or useful) in servers or data centres 

On 4/2/2023 at 7:25 PM, waiaor said:

CPU I am wondering if I should get a High End consumer chip, such as a Core i9-13900K or a Ryzen 9 7950X, or an Intel Xeon w7 3455 (Sapphire Rapids), or a Threadripper Pro 5965WX?

out of these, get a high end chip, i would say you skip sapphire rapids as they are overpriced, 13900k is a good chip but its literally uncoolable (custom loop only gets it down to 95 or 90 in full synthetic load. 

Threadripper Pro (you won't be able to find it outside of prebuilts and oems) but its a decent chip but out of all of these I would go with the 7950x (reasons with pics below)

yes 13900k is up there but can't be cooled

[TPCEA]

1 hour ago, filpo said:

I agree, only really critical (or useful) in servers or data centres 

out of these, get a high end chip, i would say you skip sapphire rapids as they are overpriced, 13900k is a good chip but its literally uncoolable (custom loop only gets it down to 95 or 90 in full synthetic load. 

Threadripper Pro (you won't be able to find it outside of prebuilts and oems) but its a decent chip but out of all of these I would go with the 7950x (reasons with pics below)

yes 13900k is up there but can't be cooled

Why not tell them to wait for the X3D?

[filpo]

3 minutes ago, RevGAM said:

Why not tell them to wait for the X3D?

good point

 

On 4/2/2023 at 7:25 PM, waiaor said:

Budget (including currency): not an issue...

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Unreal Engine 4/5, some games (Minecraft, Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Squadrons)

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): GPU RX 7900XTX

RAM 64 gigabytes.

CPU I am wondering if I should get a High End consumer chip, such as a Core i9-13900K or a Ryzen 9 7950X, or an Intel Xeon w7 3455 (Sapphire Rapids), or a Threadripper Pro 5965WX?

 

creds to @RevGAM. Its better to wait for 7800x3d to release and see its reviews 

[TPCEA]

6 minutes ago, filpo said:

good point

 

creds to @RevGAM. Its better to wait for 7800x3d to release and see its reviews 

What about the 7950x3d, or is that a bad match for a game engine?

[ImorallySourcedElectrons]

Don't forget to consider motherboard pricing and availability in all of this, some motherboards are unobtanium in particular regions or have their prices jacked up by so much that it's sometimes better to just go for a different CPU.

[filpo]

11 minutes ago, RevGAM said:

What about the 7950x3d, or is that a bad match for a game engine?

the 7800x3d is predicted to be better at gaming than the 7950x3d for about 250 bucks less. Also it wouldn't bottleneck a 7900 xtx either way