Upgrade to a Ryzen 1600 worth it ?

[brubru1998]

Hello, I have a i7 6700K right now for about 2 years, but i want to switch to a Ryzen 5 1600 it is worth it ?

 

I dont play to much, but what i do it's Virtual machine and VM like cores + thread.

 

Do you thing it's a good idea ?

Thank you !

 

 

[Yoola]

Not really. 

 

Especially when Ryzen 2 is just around the corner. 

[deXxterlab97]

you get a much lower single threaded performance for a return of a small increase in multithreaded performance, so no

[brubru1998]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

you get a much lower single threaded performance for a return of a small increase in multithreaded performance, so no

I know but, I dont play to much..

 

[Techicolors]

my 1600 is not bad at all (had 4690k previously). 3.8ghz with 2933mhz RAM 

[factorialandha]

personally i would say no, from a VM perspective, your I7 will perform better, due to better single core performance (vms generally operate a queueing system) so you have multiple single core operations rather than multi-core operations. 

 

not worth it considering you will have to replace the motherboard aswell.

[Mooshi]

15 minutes ago, brubru1998 said:

Hello, I have a i7 6700K right now for about 2 years, but i want to switch to a Ryzen 5 1600 it is worth it ?

 

I dont play to much, but what i do it's Virtual machine and VM like cores + thread.

 

Do you thing it's a good idea ?

Thank you !

 

 

 

Nope. I have a 1600 and other rig *is* a 6700k and I'd say performance isn't that dramatic a difference. No, I didn't go Ryzen for moar corez, I gave my Intel rig to my GF because her PC died and I decided to see what the Ryzen hype was about lol

[SupaKomputa]

From 6700k not a big of a jump. So its not worth it.

Moving to ryzen would only give you extra 4 threads for your vm.

[Emberstone]

You'd gain a little multithreaded performance for workstation/production-type tasks, but lose on single-threaded performance for gaming. In other words, it's a sidegrade.

 

If you wanted a jump in multithreaded performance on the "cheap," your better bet is to grab an R7-1700 rather than going for Ryzen 5.