Good prices on these two popular AMD Ryzen CPUs with the coupon that currently beats the MSY deal in price with no 1% payment surcharge either.
Before anyone says it… yes the next gen chips are around the corner and there's good discussion about it already. I think if you're building right now the 5600X is excellent value and a good performer in gaming.
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6c/12t AM4 CPU $282.36
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X AM4 8c/16t CPU $448.50
Do I upgrade from a 3600 to 5600X?
I'd also be interested as I have a 3600XT atm
If you have to ask, then no
The performance uplift of Zen 3 is at least 20% across games. In older games like csgo the gap widens to around 50% though that is an edge case.
Both cpus will draw no more than 70W, so you can also carry across the same cooler.
You can probably flip the 3600 for around $150-180 on the used market if you're lucky, so you're looking at a $100 price to jump to the 5600X. If you feel bottlenecked in games then yes, otherwise I'd just stick to what you have.
That's for unlimited fps, ultra-low settings, 720/1080p gaming with an RTX 3090 Ti.
Realistically, you won't be able to tell the difference between a 3600/x and 5600/x.
Yeah you're probably right on that one. It's very hard to bottleneck either of these with regular games, with the exception of maybe csgo and valorant.
In my opinion if you are playing at 1080p or 1440p 60 fps you should be able to play most games out now and you're better off waiting for next gen of cpu. If you want to play at 4k 60hz or 1440p over 120hz and have the gpu to do that you can upgrade.
Other way around. The higher up you go in resolution, the less the CPU matters as you run into GPU bottlenecks. It's low resolution, high-refresh rate gaming where CPU upgrades yield the largest benefits.
That does make sense but won't 3600 be enough for 1440p at 60hz for most games?
lol, they've clearly price jacked the 5800X3D
Damn, I paid $295 for the 5600X yesterday…
Looks like it's time to upgrade from my 2600x…
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That's a good price.