Choosing between ryzen 5 7600 and 5600

[bhatakti_atama]

Budget (including currency): 70000 Indian rupees (840 USD)

Country: India

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Tekken 8, Witcher 3, RDR2, Sekiro at 1440p, fusion 360, gazebo, coding

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): 

Let me explain my situation, I am upgrading from a 5-year-old gaming laptop ( i5-7300HQ, 1050 )

 

I am confused between getting Ryzen 5 5600 and 7600  with a 4060ti. I am thinking of getting a 5600. 

 

My reasoning behind this is, please correct me if I am wrong:

• 5600 would not be a bottleneck for 4060ti
• Hopefully, I won't upgrade for the next 5 years at least so by then am5 would also be near the end of life
• Even if I choose to upgrade, motherboard and DDR5 RAM costs would have come down by then 
• Ram is cheaper, motherboards are cheaper
• I'll be saving almost 10,000 rupees ( 120 dollars ) that way. 

Some other points:

• I don't want to get into the used market 
• I don't want an AMD GPU because of CUDA, DLSS and other Nvidia features 

[filpo]

1 minute ago, bhatakti_atama said:

• Even if I choose to upgrade, motherboard and DDR5 RAM costs would have come down by then 
• Ram is cheaper, motherboards are cheaper

DDR5 ram and am5 mobos are quite cheap (for what they are) here in the west. I checked some ddr5 6000 CL30 ram 2x16gb and it's about $155 converted (though that is Trident Z5 Neo so not budget ram) never mind in india it's apparently the cheapest 6000 CL30 ram

I'd get the 7600 since it's better in gaming and productivity due to those higher clocks. Then for mobo look at b650m-a wifi for matx, b650 gaming plus wifi for atx and b650i lightning wifi for itx

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[Shimejii]

since you are not interested in the used market, it seems odd that you are saving 120$

 

MOBO should only be a 30-40$ difference at this point, ram should be a 15$ difference. the CPU should be the main price difference right?

 

If i had to chose between the two, id go 7600 because it still gives you a  platform to upgrade. You clearly are not in the camp of needing the absolute best of the best, but maybe in 4 years when you want more performance, you only need to do a CPU drop in upgrade then!

[podkall]

7 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

since you are not interested in the used market, it seems odd that you are saving 120$

 

MOBO should only be a 30-40$ difference at this point, ram should be a 15$ difference. the CPU should be the main price difference right?

 

If i had to chose between the two, id go 7600 because it still gives you a  platform to upgrade. You clearly are not in the camp of needing the absolute best of the best, but maybe in 4 years when you want more performance, you only need to do a CPU drop in upgrade then!

yeah but isn't AM5 too expensive for sub 1000$ budget?

[bhatakti_atama]

8 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

MOBO should only be a 30-40$ difference at this point, ram should be a 15$ difference. the CPU should be the main price difference right?

It's a 50 dollar saving on the mobo

It's a 50 dollar save on processor 

And 20 dollar save on ram but with the 5600 build I'll get 2x8 gb sticks so dual channel because for ddr5 minimum capacity is 16gb

[bhatakti_atama]

15 minutes ago, filpo said:

'd get the 7600 since it's better in gaming and productivity due to those higher clocks.

Yes but the benchmarks are done with a top of the line gpu but I'll be using a lower mid range card so how much of a difference would that make I am not sure 

[filpo]

2 minutes ago, bhatakti_atama said:

Yes but the benchmarks are done with a top of the line gpu but I'll be using a lower mid range card so how much of a difference would that make I am not sure 

I bottleneck my 3060 occasionally with my 5600, so it definitely could help. 7600 is also quite a bit better in productivity if you're going to use it 

it's also just a better platform overall with it having a future (ryzen 9000) while am4 is supposedly dead

[Shimejii]

11 minutes ago, podkall said:

yeah but isn't AM5 too expensive for sub 1000$ budget?

Not really honestly. There are certainly New bundles that make it, but hes in India so not sure how good their deals are etc.

 

3 minutes ago, bhatakti_atama said:

Yes but the benchmarks are done with a top of the line gpu but I'll be using a lower mid range card so how much of a difference would that make I am not sure 

You want the most that fits within your budget. Spend 120$ now, and that gives you exactly what you need AND the potential for an upgrade if you choose to do so. If you need to save every last bit then yes, save the money.

[podkall]

1 minute ago, Shimejii said:

Not really honestly. There are certainly New bundles that make it, but hes in India so not sure how good their deals are etc.

yes, bundles is mainly a US thing, maybe Canada and UK, and maybe few EU countries, but that's it basically, we greedy round here

[bhatakti_atama]

6 minutes ago, filpo said:

I bottleneck my 3060 occasionally with my 5600, so it definitely could help. 7600 is also quite a bit better in productivity if you're going to use it 

I use the company provided laptop for my work. The programming I'd be doing on pc would just some personal side projects. Yeah but I don't see spending extra 120 dollars for maybe a 5-10% percent performance gain 

[filpo]

13 minutes ago, bhatakti_atama said:

Yeah but I don't see spending extra 120 dollars for maybe a 5-10% percent performance gain 

you also get future upgrades and a brand new ram standard (DDR5 instead of DDR4). WIth am4 you can go to the 5700x3d and that's it (or 5950x for productivity) but with am5 you'll be able to have many more choices and go further

 

It is your choice however, but the above is my opinion