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I have a PC I built with a Ryzen 5600x, 48GB RAM, 7700XT graphics card and Asus ROG STRIX B450-F Gaming 2 Mobo.

I use it for some gaming but mainly Lightroom, Photoshop and occasional video editing.

I am wondering if it is worth upgrading to a 5900x and sticking with AM4 to tide me over to AM6 or whether I should look to upgrade to AM5.

PC seems fine at the moment and games are running well, but any extra performance when doing graphical stuff is helpful.

Interested to hear people's opinions.
 
Hi

What's your budget and what version of those applications are you using?

I would say that a 5900X would be a great upgrade but you should also just consider getting the full fat 5950X.

That being said, using a GPU to render stuff is faster than a CPU so you may consider moving to Nvidia instead of a CPU upgrade.
 
Thanks for the reply.

Budget is as little as possible, £500 tops.

photoshop and lightroom I am on subscription so latest versions of desktop applications.
My basket at OcUK:

Total: £597.96 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

Not far off your budget and you could probably shop around for a bundle deal anyway.

I don't love the 12gigs of VRAM with the 5070 at that price - I would go for a minimum of 16gigs of VRAM if possible.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £562.98 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

I'd go CPU over GPU if you're mostly using Photoshop.
 
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My basket at OcUK:

Total: £597.96 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

Not far off your budget and you could probably shop around for a bundle deal anyway.

I don't love the 12gigs of VRAM with the 5070 at that price - I would go for a minimum of 16gigs of VRAM if possible.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £562.98 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

I'd go CPU over GPU if you're mostly using Photoshop.
That looks like a nice setup, 9700x seems to have good performance as well.

I guess I will be able to sell my existing Mobo, CPU and RAM on ebay so that will easily offset the higher budget.

I am glad I asked the question as that makes a lot of sense, thanks for your help
 
£339 (incl. VAT)
£270 (incl. VAT)
£200 (incl. VAT)
£125 (incl. VAT)
£570 (incl. VAT)
£500 (incl. VAT)
I use it for some gaming but mainly Lightroom, Photoshop and occasional video editing.

I am wondering if it is worth upgrading to a 5900x and sticking with AM4 to tide me over to AM6 or whether I should look to upgrade to AM5.
The main problem with upgrading to the 5900X/5950X is that the single core improvement is marginal, so you'd really want to be waiting around a lot for multithreaded tasks to complete, since otherwise the improvement could be very small (if even noticeable).

Something like a 7600X would give you an improvement in both types of workload, but the multithreaded performance is not hugely better than a 5600X. An 8 core CPU like the 7700X would be better, since you're getting a decent upgrade in both single and multithreaded, but if you're primarily bottlenecked when multithreaded the 7700X is roughly equivalent to the 5900X (..hence the upgrade to AM5 wouldn't be worthwhile in that case).
 
Way cheaper upgrade no motherboard and ram required .
Yeah, I guess and the 5950X is still a good CPU, I just think that £550 to £600 for a completely new system isn't unreasonable.

If I could pick up a used 5950X for cheap which wouldn't be too difficult to find, I'd do that any day of the week for Photo and video editing.
 
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