Upgrade Time?

[Fyfey96]

Hey all,

I've been rocking my 6700K now for a good few years, I think it was around August 2015 just after release. now just realizing it's pretty much 5 years old and things have come a way since then, so I was thinking it was about time for an upgrade. I was toying with threadripper but thinking it's maybe a little too pricey for what I do.

I just Mainly play some general gaming, use adobe premiere pro and after effects But I have started to get into blender and unity a bit now and think the 6700K is holding me up a bit. I'm thinking the AMD 3950X would be a good choice for this as render performance seems much more bang for the buck with AMD but my concern is will I lose any features moving away from Intel?

So at this moment in time would this be the choice for me?

Any thoughts much appreciated..


Thanks,

Ally

 

[Excalabur50]

The 3950X is a great choice really, whilst Intel still have the edge a little bit in gaming and some work loads in others the Ryzen CPU will wipe the floor with them, and AMD have PCIE Gen4 on the CPU as well as the chipset whereas Intel is just on the chipset ATM which doesn't really do much for GPU's but if you want fast storage it can be a little bit of an edge depending on the use case.
So if it were me AMD all the way!

 

[AlienALX]

3950x is an absolute animal.

You won't lose any features. You will get more lanes from the X570 PCH and you will get PCIE4, as well as all of the modern features (like RGB headers on the board and etc)

You also gain full clock AVX. Whereas Intel throttle like garbage when using AVX.

 

[Fyfey96]

The 3950X is a great choice really, whilst Intel still have the edge a little bit in gaming and some work loads in others the Ryzen CPU will wipe the floor with them, and AMD have PCIE Gen4 on the CPU as well as the chipset whereas Intel is just on the chipset ATM which doesn't really do much for GPU's but if you want fast storage it can be a little bit of an edge depending on the use case.
So if it were me AMD all the way!

Yea I see that with intel but I’m edging toward productivity more. And gaming at 3440x1440 should see less of a performance dip than what 1080P benchmarks show is that correct?

 

[Excalabur50]

I game at 3440x1440 myself with a 3700X and a 3950X is faster so you'll be laughing, it's the CPU I'd love to have myself, and yes as you go up in resolution the differences become marginal as you're GPU bound rather than CPU and the fact you're doing productivity as well 3950X is the chip for you.

 

[AlienALX]

I doubt you will see any difference at that res.

 

[Dicehunter]

3950X owner here, Fantastic CPU, While I play mainly at 3440x1440 the CPU is largely not a focus BUT in rendering and multithreaded workloads etc... this thing rips through everything.

There are a few games though that are the exception even at UW 1440P, Namely The Division 2, It can make use of as many cores and threads as you throw at it and it is noticeably smoother on my 3950X compared to my 9900K, Same goes for Total War games, Loading feels smoother, General panning of the camera feels smoother and I expect this trend to increase as more and more devs make games able to use more and more cores/threads.

 

[Fyfey96]

Thanks, everyone. 3950X purchased and installed all going great!

 

[FTLN]

I think there should be a 3950x club here, to compare clocks temps voltages etc There is a lot more to be had out of this cpu just by increasing power limits in bios.

 

[AlienALX]

Congrats. Pics

 

[Excalabur50]

Nice buy!