3800x to a 3900x waste?

[IvanDobskey]

I don't understand all the hype for the 4000 series. It'll be a little better sure, but not hugely. I'm not sure 15% improvement on an already plenty fast enough cpu can be worth the cost and hassle of upgrading.

 

[pc-guy]

I don't understand all the hype for the 4000 series. It'll be a little better sure, but not hugely. I'm not sure 15% improvement on an already plenty fast enough cpu can be worth the cost and hassle of upgrading.

Need vs greed that is

 

[Saul Farrell]

went with 3900x glad i did and tbh when new 4000 series come out i will be getting one to par with the 3080 if i can land on a 3080 this month!

You probably don't need to upgrade for a good while. In the future, I'm planning on getting a 3080 with my ryzen 5 3600 and while it will bottleneck at 1080p, at 4K I should be fine...

 

[rchads89]

I don't understand all the hype for the 4000 series. It'll be a little better sure, but not hugely. I'm not sure 15% improvement on an already plenty fast enough cpu can be worth the cost and hassle of upgrading.

Ill upgrade to 4000 like im upgrading to 3080 might as well

 

[IvanDobskey]

Ill upgrade to 4000 like im upgrading to 3080 might as well

I'll upgrade from my 1070 to a 3070 this time as its going to be double the performance. Well worth it. Going from a 3900x to a 4900x for an extra 15% just isn't.

 

[rchads89]

I'll upgrade from my 1070 to a 3070 this time as its going to be double the performance. Well worth it. Going from a 3900x to a 4900x for an extra 15% just isn't.

Not worth it for you mate probably not.

 

[IvanDobskey]

Not worth it for you mate probably not.

I'll be keeping this cpu for at least 5 years. Things are going to start using more and more cores from now on, so hopefully won't need to upgrade for a long time.

 

[rchads89]

I'll be keeping this cpu for at least 5 years. Things are going to start using more and more cores from now on, so hopefully won't need to upgrade for a long time.

depends if amd have a 12 core 24 threads over 5.0 ghz yeh i will upgrade

 

[Saul Farrell]

Not worth it for you mate probably not.

The 1070 to a 3070 is more like 3x the performance gain so why is it not worth it?

 

[rchads89]

The 1070 to a 3070 is more like 3x the performance gain so why is it not worth it?

Not on about the gpu mate go back to bed..

 

[Shante]

I would stay with current cpu

 

[Lolik]

68 £ is deffo worth it, you will notice the difference when streaming, no doubt

 

[rchads89]

68 £ is deffo worth it, you will notice the difference when streaming, no doubt

went with it got the 3900x had it weeks! just waiting on the 3080 now.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

I don't understand all the hype for the 4000 series. It'll be a little better sure, but not hugely. I'm not sure 15% improvement on an already plenty fast enough cpu can be worth the cost and hassle of upgrading.

You're assuming everyone has a 3000 series CPU. I'm on a 2000 series so it will be a 30% jump for me

Even if that wasn't the case, I always like the buzz and excitement of a new product launch. Watching the reviews on YouTube etc.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

I don't understand all the hype for the 4000 series. It'll be a little better sure, but not hugely. I'm not sure 15% improvement on an already plenty fast enough cpu can be worth the cost and hassle of upgrading.

Overall ~15% faster AND eliminates/reduces gaming and some other latency bottlenecks, so in some games it may be well over 20-30% faster for CPU dependent titles, whilst potentially offering more performance and cores than Intel, on a platform with more features and at better price points?

Hard to see why that wouldn't be hyped. If all this comes true, this will be the first time AMD have the overall CPU crown in almost 20 years and that's a massive game change when just 5 years ago Intel were at peak and AMD risked going bankrupt due to how uncompetitive Bulldozer derived architectures were.

People forget that although AMD are big, they're far smaller than both Intel or Nvidia and we all need healthy competition. Success in CPU enables AMD to better fund GPU also.

 

[IvanDobskey]

No doubt AMD are making great cpu's at the moment and I'm loving my 3900x, but no way am I going to jack it in for a 4000 series for an extra 15%.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

That's the thing, for gamers, it may not be +15%, in some circumstances it may be 30-40% plus.

Ryzen 3000 (Zen 2)is already an INCREDIBLE workstation CPU, and it's a good gaming CPU, but the 3300X shows how much can be achieved and how much extra performance is sometimes on the table just from reducing some of the bottlenecks within Zen 2, even BEFORE the Zen2->3 architecture improvements, remember that latency/bottleneck reduction and the architecture improvements should stack; so in Ryzen's worst case scenarios the improvement may not be an extra 15%, it could be 40 or 50, or 100%.

If you're happy with the 3900X, then that's absolutely great, but there's nothing wrong with people being excited by Zen 3, and if they primarily game rather than use the system for productivity, then why not as it sounds like some of the improvements on Zen 3 will make more improvement there and other low latency tasks than anywhere else.

 

[oldbanana]

there is no need to buy 3000 series right now, 4000 series is pretty much here in a month.

 

[ProStreet]

No point upgrading. Minimal difference. Wait for the new CPUs.

 

[rchads89]

You can tell the people trying to get post count up this was already put to bed pages ago / weeks / month ago? looking forward to upgrading it to ryzen 4000 series anyway.