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5900x or 5800x for gaming?

Im at a point were little of my old PC is of any use (other than PSU + SSD ) so for me the 5600x is the sweet spot I think, all money saved goes towards better GFX card.
 
If you look at gaming benchmarks there's not much in it, but for workstation stuff the 5900x is a noticeable jump, if you're going to single-pc stream I think the 5900x will future proof you for a lot longer.
 
I don't see the point of 5800x, 5600x and 5900x are basically the same performance gaming wise and the price is too close. If you need to do multicore productivity get 5900x, if it's pure gaming then 5600x. If your business pays for it or you just want to spend the most money 5950x.

Pretty sure we're paying the premium for a chip that has 8 working cores at this point. I was watching for cross core memory issues, but the 2 chiplet cpus seem to have enough cache ram to cope with it.

World record overclockers would come from 5800x I assume, but meh; 5950xt will smash it anyway
 
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kohlditz said:
I don't see the point of 5800x, 5600x and 5900x are basically the same performance gaming wise and the price is too close. If you need to do multicore productivity get 5900x, if it's pure gaming then 5600x. If your business pays for it or you just want to spend the most money 5950x.
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Same I hope for 5700x
 
kohlditz said:
I don't see the point of 5800x, 5600x and 5900x are basically the same performance gaming wise and the price is too close. If you need to do multicore productivity get 5900x, if it's pure gaming then 5600x. If your business pays for it or you just want to spend the most money 5950x.

Pretty sure we're paying the premium for a chip that has 8 working cores at this point. I was watching for cross core memory issues, but the 2 chiplet cpus seem to have enough cache ram to cope with it.

World record overclockers would come from 5800x I assume, but meh; 5950xt will smash it anyway
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What do you think about the consoles having 8 cores to play with? Could this cause issues in the near future for the 5600x?
 
Chris Ecob said:
What do you think about the consoles having 8 cores to play with? Could this cause issues in the near future for the 5600x?
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console clock speed is a lot lower than desktop, so that counts for a lot. modern games are better at distributing workload across cores but there will still always be one master thread in charge and that's where the bottleneck really is.

5600x and 5900x are where the best value lays, 5950x is a halo product. 5800x is (comparatively) garbage IMO
 
Jumped into the forum as I've been asking myself this very question regarding the 5600X. 5800X or the 5900X.
I jumped from an i5-2500K to a R5 3600 when it arrived. I purchased a higher end X570 board with the notion of dropping a 5900X once the prices drop to a more reasonable level. Now I'm wondering if I should just go with a 5800X when the time is right.

I don't upgrade regularly so would be looking for it to last 5-8 years.

I think by next summer I'll opt for a new GPU then maybe 6-12 months I'll get a new CPU then leave it a number of years. Perhaps a 5800/5900XT will be available by then.
 
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