Ryzen9 3950X v Ryzen 9 5950X Difference ?

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Hi

Hoping someone might be able to give me some advice on this please .

My friend s wanting to purchase a new cpu to run multiple virtual machines. I myself run a threadripper 2nd gen for this .

I've been looking at the cpu's and see that you can't seem to get hold of the 5950X but i can get hold of a 3950X. Is there a lot of difference between the cpu's ? both at 16 core 32 threads which he's wanting .

Thank you .

 

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Every core and thread on the 5950X is worth 1.2 cores/threads on the 3950x. Rounded to the nearest 10th.

Thanks for your reply

If you find a cheap 3950x get that

the 5950x is about 10% faster in multi thread load so don't pay more than 10% over the 3950x price

the entire 5000 series was designed for gaming, that's where all the improvements went to, for work there are minor differences and a second hand 3000 series would make more sense if you can get a good price. I sold my 3950x for 70% of the 5950x price

Thanks fro your reply , yeah this won't be a games machine at all just a machine to run virtual machines running stripped back windows on them .

I have found the 3950X for around £650 .