To switch around or not?

[memyselfandi]

So I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade the graphics card in my main box. I only do a bit of light gaming (and streaming) and when the system was built I did even less. As such its a Intel i7 8700 (non-k) with a GTX 1060 6GB. I'm upgrading to a RTX 3060.

But I have a second PC which is a AMD Ryzen 5 3600. Is it worth swapping things around so that the main PC becomes the 3600 with the 3060 instead of the Intel chip? Both the systems have the same amount of memory (the AMD system has slightly faster memory).

Is the potential performance difference worth the effort involved?

 

[Tetras]

Not worth swapping, they're very similar CPUs and I doubt you'd notice any difference with a 3060.

 

[G J]

I think the performance will be about the same CPU wise.

The AMD setup will give you way better options upgrade wise esp if buying new if you ever wanted to do that as the Intel setup is pretty much a 9700k which I dont think would be worth it or a 9900k. The 9900k require a somewhat decent motherboard to get the best out of them and they're way too expensive at £220+ used.

 

[jigger]

RDNA2 cards offer better performance with older CPU’s.

 

[Orcvader]

Another thing to consider is PCIe 3 vs 4, but even then especially for the 3060 it would be a very tiny difference.

I believe Nvidia's resizable BAR doesn't work on Intel's 8th gen, but it does on the 3600. However, compared to AMD's implementation it doesn't give a huge boost and is limited to a small whitelist so I wouldn't worry about missing that either.