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Worth upgrading from 3600 to 5600x?

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I suspect it will if you run certain older games,which show a noticeable improvement on a current generation Core i5(Fallout 4,etc). This is where I think the biggest improvement will be in - games based on older engines,where Zen2 is held back by latency.



I paid £137 for my Ryzen 5 2600 two years ago,and the Ryzen 5 5600X is around double that. It would be a decent upgrade for me,but I think I might look for a Ryzen 7 3700X deal,unless we have a Ryzen 5 5600 non-X out this year at around £200.
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I think I prefer to just run my 2600 until it "needs" replacing, they've made incremental style upgrading not worth the money IMO, so in the end I'll just end up spending less. I'm happy with that. I think that goes for MOBO's and GPU's as well.

I'm really happy I built a new system 18 months ago, rather than waiting for Zen3 and Big Navi/Ampere as I originally intended, I know that much, I think i'd be spending more than double on CPU/MOBO/GPU for "like for like" products now.
 
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I'm keeping a careful eye on the 5600X to replace my 3600, which I will then drop in to a cheap B450 board for the kids PC. They are on an old i5 4670K system that's due an upgrade.

I'm kind of torn however on the route to take with the replacement CPU. I was initially excited for the 5000 series releases but can't get away from feeling that the 5600X is 30% more expensive than the 3600 for what I'm expecting to be around 30% more performance.

If it is then the question is do I need that extra 30%? More FPS is nice, but so is £100 to go toward a better GPU.

An eight core was my ideal upgrade but I'm not willing to spend over £400 on a CPU.
 
In normal circumstances, I'd not bother upgrading, but this "smart access memory" thingy has got me thinking will it be worth it if paired with, say, a 6800XT? Will it give a tangible increase in performance (ie: worth while). I will be getting, availability, price gouging notwithstanding, one of these gpus and the SAM could be good enough to warrant replacing me 3600x.
All depends on reviews, but I wish they'd get these reviews out early enough to allow for reading and then decision.
 
I'd just OC it and wait for AM5 (due in 1-2 years) and then do a full upgrade, that's my plan anyways (got a 3600xt), and get a 3080/6800xt now.
 
pieman109 said:
In normal circumstances, I'd not bother upgrading, but this "smart access memory" thingy has got me thinking will it be worth it if paired with, say, a 6800XT? Will it give a tangible increase in performance (ie: worth while). I will be getting, availability, price gouging notwithstanding, one of these gpus and the SAM could be good enough to warrant replacing me 3600x.
All depends on reviews, but I wish they'd get these reviews out early enough to allow for reading and then decision.
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I wonder if smart access memory can be back ported to work on older series components?
 
I've managed to pick up a 5600x today and with pbo enabled it's 310 points below a 3700x and nearly 1100 above a 3600. I'm running some more tests but so far I think it'll be a decent upgrade for gaming.
 
I did a loop of Manhattan on FS2020 with the 3700X and 5600X

04-11-2020, 17:15:04 FlightSimulator.exe benchmark completed, 26850 frames rendered in 511.469 s
Average framerate : 52.4 FPS
Minimum framerate : 29.6 FPS
Maximum framerate : 63.3 FPS
1% low framerate : 26.7 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 9.0 FPS
03-11-2020, 09:55:03 FlightSimulator.exe benchmark completed, 22406 frames rendered in 566.235 s
Average framerate : 39.5 FPS
Minimum framerate : 21.4 FPS
Maximum framerate : 48.6 FPS
1% low framerate : 19.1 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 5.7 FPS

Decent improvement i think. Still had some micro stutters but significantly less of them
 
sgoaty said:
I did a loop of Manhattan on FS2020 with the 3700X and 5600X

04-11-2020, 17:15:04 FlightSimulator.exe benchmark completed, 26850 frames rendered in 511.469 s
Average framerate : 52.4 FPS
Minimum framerate : 29.6 FPS
Maximum framerate : 63.3 FPS
1% low framerate : 26.7 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 9.0 FPS
03-11-2020, 09:55:03 FlightSimulator.exe benchmark completed, 22406 frames rendered in 566.235 s
Average framerate : 39.5 FPS
Minimum framerate : 21.4 FPS
Maximum framerate : 48.6 FPS
1% low framerate : 19.1 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 5.7 FPS

Decent improvement i think. Still had some micro stutters but significantly less of them
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That is a big difference. Is that literally just drop in the 5600X stock with PBO?
 
sgoaty said:
I can say it definitely has. Still not great but much improved!
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Good to hear, I’ve currently for a 3600 on a B450 board so a while to wait before I can get one that’s compatible with my M/B but hoping to pick up a new 6000 series graphics card which should be a good combo for FS.
 
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