Do I need to have it to conclude it's going to be faster than the 12600k? Do you think it's going to be slower?
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Upgrading from Intel 5960X with 4090/RDNA 3 GPU at 4K
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It doesn't need DDR5, steve uses painfully slow 3200 ram, it's bandwidth starved. A decent kit at 3600+ doesn't have any meaningful difference to ddr5.
Do I need to have it to conclude it's going to be faster than the 12600k? Do you think it's going to be slower?
You totally lost me mate, why are we suddenly talking about the top SKUs when op is not looking for that
Yes I agree the 13900k will be faster than the 12600k
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Well raven keeps insisting that the 3d will beat the 13900k, even though it's losing or marginally beating the 12600k. I thought you were of the same opinion, my apologies.
Yeah, he is not looking for top SKUs, that's why I suggested the 13600k with a z690 motherboard
5800X3D would offer you the best value and performance by far. I'd get one of those before they sell out; they're likely not making any more seeing as they want to release Zen 4 v-cache variants in Spring. A 5600/X (or 12400f) is not a bad idea either but imo I'd avoid them as they will have sub 60 fps drops in really taxing scenarios (f.ex. Cyberpunk RT + crowds in city center).
Both 12600K or 13600K MSI A-Pro and you can use DDR4.
Also 5800x3D and a B550 is very good as well.
It might depend on the games you play, in this very thread you have two compliations of game averages with somewhat different ordering depending on the games they tested and the number of outliers contained within shifting the % to either AMD or Intel.
Either way you want pretty so assuming 4k so the GPU is the bottleneck and as long as you have anything recent CPU wise 6 cores + you will struggle to notice the difference in reality as the difference is like a few % overall in the game averages.
As you are planning on waiting a little bit it might even come down to things like Smart access memory if top RDNA3 is shown to be really good and better value than 4090, that could swing it.
Also 5800x3D and a B550 is very good as well.
It might depend on the games you play, in this very thread you have two compliations of game averages with somewhat different ordering depending on the games they tested and the number of outliers contained within shifting the % to either AMD or Intel.
Either way you want pretty so assuming 4k so the GPU is the bottleneck and as long as you have anything recent CPU wise 6 cores + you will struggle to notice the difference in reality as the difference is like a few % overall in the game averages.
As you are planning on waiting a little bit it might even come down to things like Smart access memory if top RDNA3 is shown to be really good and better value than 4090, that could swing it.