Xeon x5650 to Ryzen 2700x worth it?

[KungFuSpaghetti]

I'm tempted by the new Ryzen CPU's but just trying to work out if it's going to give me any notable improvement in gaming? Productivity wise I only do some VXML coding, so when I'm compiling my scripts I don't think I'll notice any difference.

My Xeon (6c/12t) is currently clocked at 4.4ghz on all 6 cores, so what sort of difference should I expect to see? Will min/max FPS increase at all? I only game in 1080p as that's all my monitor will output and I've no intention of moving to 1440p as I love my 32" IPS 144hz screen.

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

I've got a water cooled GTX 1070ti and mainly just play Civ 6, which graphically it runs fine in DX12 mode with everything set to max, but turn times late game can take a good 40 seconds. The other game I play is pube-g again at 1080p with screen scale 120, AA/postprocessing/texture/view distance/effects all 'ultra' with shadows and foliage on low. It doesn't generally dip below 100fps except on the savage map, where at one point before landing I'm seeing 35fps, with a max of 80ish! :S

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

Wow, well after reading the replies and watching the benchmark video I'm going to hang on to what I have. I'm really disappointed at how much the tech has stagnated, my 8 year old cpu should be getting trounced in modern gaming.

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

From a gaming perspective, personally I wouldn't ditch an overclocked 6c12t Intel just yet.

It's looking like there's no real point just yet. I mean I've got mine running stable at 4.4ghz and have had it running at 4.8ghz at 1.5vcore, which I know is too high but temps stay under 70 degrees gaming and it's perfectly stable unless I do multiple bench tests on, then it does eventually blue screen lol.

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

I personally don't compare my x58 to threadripper, simply as that's not why I bought it. I got my x58 purely because it was a cheaper alternative to a normal gaming mobo/CPU setup and I don't need or use it for anything other than remote access to my work PC and gaming. It's punching above its weight, which isn't bad for an 8 year old CPU which cost me £20 including delivery

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

Very true Bongo, they were insane money when new, but now I think for the price of them they cannot be beaten easily! I'd happily go with another Xeon in the future for a gaming rig, but I don't believe the newer ones can be overclocked, at least not like these Westmere models?

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

DragonQ, is there anything info wise to say if the higher end x56xx CPU's were any better binned to give merit to them clocking higher at all? I'd probably be happy getting an x5690 if I knew the chances of a stable 4.5+ghz at reasonable vcore were possible.

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

Why do people buy these ultra cheap CPU's, the performance seems much lower than modern i5/i7 from what benchmarks show????/

I bought the setup simply because it was cheap and got me back into PC gaming and in no way does it bottleneck my GPU. I play pube-g a lot and my friend has a Ryzen 1700 (@3.9ghz), 16GB 3200 RAM and the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1080 and we both play in 1080p with the exact same in game graphics settings and I get higher FPS at the exact points in the game... that's with an old westmere Xeon and a water cooled 1070ti.