Help Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 5 5600X

[moji123]

I curently have a Ryzen 5600x and was offered a 3900x at a low price.

So now I'm trying to understand how benchmarking works.

This gives the 3900x superiority:

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 5 5600X [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

This gives it to the 5600X:

UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs 9 3900X

I'm sure I look a fool for asking, but can anyone explain what the differences are, or am I reading it all wrong?

 

[dave28]

the 5600x is better for gaming, the 3900x is better for productivity tasks and multitasking because it has double the cores

the 5600x is more efficient and uses less power

 

[HACO]

Wouldn't be a noticeable upgrade unless you're saturating those cores to the max and need extra cores for highly parallel workloads. It will be a noticeable downgrade in a some areas that are sensitive to single-threaded performance (gaming, web browsing, system responsiveness, etc).

Maybe see if you can upgrade to 5900X or 5950X a little further down the line as prices drop?

 

[moji123]

Thanks, that's useful to know

 

[tamzzy]

for the majority of day-to-day tasks the 5600x would be equal, if not better than the 3900x because of its superior single core performance
so sticking to the 5600x unless you're doing something that will hammer all 12 cores at once would be my recommendation

if gaming, your next upgrade path is the 5800x3d
again unless you're doing something that demands 12/16 cores, the 5800x3d would be the better choice when you do upgrade

 

[faceman123]

3900x is still amazing.

 

[FredFlint]

The 5600x is probably better for most games now, games that use more threads, the 3900X will be better.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

The 5600x is probably better for most games now, games that use more threads, the 3900X will be better.

not convinced on that, reviews show 5600x beating the 3900x in everything except tomb raider and ashes of the singularity. depends on how cheapo he can get the 3900x for but with such a drop in single thread speed id say save the money and get 5900x or 5800x3d if just gaming and sell your cpu on in the members market.
if you dont game much and do lot of video encoding and rendering then the 3900x would be a worthy option.

 

[arc@css]

If you do require multitasking performance, then you could also consider the XT variant of the 3900. The very slight bump in clock speed might be worth considering if you can get one for a sensible price.