8 core vs 12 core

[Guest2]

How about 12 core vs 16 core?
The 5950X has a +100Mhz higher boost and +2MB L2 cache. If money was no object, but the main use is still gaming with some recording and a bit of productivity, would you (anyone) go for the 5950X over the 5900X?
I ask this because i'm unlikley to upgrade my machine for almost a decade. Should I just spend the extra £220 on extra cores, threads, +100Mhz, +2MB cache now?

 

[Combat Fighter]

How about 12 core vs 16 core?
The 5950X has a +100Mhz higher boost and +2MB L2 cache. If money was no object, but the main use is still gaming with some recording and a bit of productivity, would you (anyone) go for the 5950X over the 5900X?
I ask this because i'm unlikley to upgrade my machine for almost a decade. Should I just spend the extra £220 on extra cores, threads, +100Mhz, +2MB cache now?

Darn 10 years?

Thought I was pushing it with my X99 around 5 years

 

[Guest2]

Darn 10 years?

Thought I was pushing it with my X99 around 5 years

I'm on Socket LGA1150 (Z97) at the moment. Motherboard, CPU and RAM cost £350 total.
I've already spent £480 on motherboard and RAM so it going to have to last a while!
Unless gaming advanced so much in 10 years then it should last (GPU wont but thats another story)
Crysis original, 2007. Still looks better than most games today! Plays fine on my CPU, MB, RAM

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Executive Summary: Zen3 is ~25-40% faster than Zen2 across all kinds of algorithms. No choice but give it 10/10 overall!

Despite no major architectural changes (except larger 8-core CCX layout and thus unified L3 cache) over Zen2 – Zen3 manages to be quite a bit faster across legacy and heavily vectorised SIMD algorithms, naturally also soundly beating the competition even with AVX512 and more cores (e.g. 10-core SKL-X). Even streaming algorithms (memory-bound) improve over 20%. We certainly did not expect performance to be this good.

https://videocardz.com/newz/sisoftware-release-early-ryzen-7-5800x-and-ryzen-5-5600x-reviews

Looks promising.

 

[Mr Oblong]

I'd go 5900X you'll be keeping the CPU for 5 years in all likelihood and 12 cores are bound to get used more in future. For the price difference I don't see the point in compromising especially as productivity tasks
will be so much faster on 12 cores.

Yeah I see the value in that, although depends what kind of productivity tasks you do as well.