Hi guys,
I've got both cpus ready for a gaming pc, I know they are similair but I need to keep one and sell the other. I am trying to future proof my build but not sure which I should keep. By the looks of it 3300x benchmarks better but only has 4 cores with 8 threads. 3500x has 6 cores + 6 threads so 2 more cores but…2 less threads. Which one do you think I should keep/sell?
Thanks, thats exactly what I originally planned, but then the 3300x beats out the 3500x on a decent amount of benchmarks/games by around 5% which I didn't think would be the case and it left me slightly confused
Put both on sale and see which one sells first.
That's a great idea
Benchmarks are the most important thing for a gaming PC, but it's hard to find good sets with many games because 3500x never got a wide release (it's limited units and only officially available in a few countries).
Here's one that shows the 3300x is a bit faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb5lOjkoDgc
But I'm not sure how trustworthy the source is.
6 cores 6 threads should theoretically be better than 4 cores 8 threads, because the cores matter the most.
But if real-world performance benchmarks in games show the 3300x winning I wouldn't worry about that. (3300x is newer and has differences, things like using a single CCX, that explain why it's so fast in games compared to it's pricier Ryzen brothers).
Future proofing is a big fat guess, and the general consensus online is wrong as often as they are right on these kind of predictions (in fact, when it comes to "gaming will be able to benefit from N cores really soon", the online consensus has been consistently too early by years, over and over, every year for about 15 years, so don't put too much faith in the "4-cores-won't-be-enough" crowd).
You'll get around $200 for the 3300x and around $300 for the 3500x, I guess?
Great info, and as far as price goes, I'll get ~200 for the 3300x if lucky and around the same I assume from the 3500x
This benchmark video is telling me that the 3500X does outperform the 3300X, very difficult to find a reliable benchmark.
Keep the 3500X, firstly because most people won't search for it as they have never heard of it (OEM only) and secondly because it is the superior CPU. All of it's cores are true cores meaning they will perform a lot better.
Edit: WOAH wait I want to cry, why is the 3300X better than my 3500X in every aspect :( Keep the 3300X then.
Yeah I got the 3300x to put in the PC I was going to sell but now its looking like I want to keep it!
Yeah, thanks to the clock bump it gets it allows it to outperform the 3500X in gaming and lose by 2-3% in multi-core workloads, not to mention the single CCX. It's very comforting to know that my Ryzen 5 is now worse than a Ryzen 3, but hey, if AMD is competing with themselves then I'm all for that.
Edit: This is telling a different story.
Thats really odd, toms hardware I think and also gamer nexus showed the 3500x slightly trailing the 3300x in most if not all games. I think I might need to test it out myself.
Cores are actual computing units, additional threads are virtual execution units assigned to each core (schedule/streamline execution of code). More physical cores will provide greater performance, so go with the 3500x.
Software needs to be written to specifically make use of hyper threading.
Simplified explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnS50lJicXc