Question B550 future proofing

[LighterST]

Hey, just wanted to clarify - will this chipset's last line of AMD processors be the 5XXX series, Zen 3? If so, does this mean I'm buying a motherboard with no future CPU to upgrade it with without going over to the new chipset?

 

[drea.drechsler]

Yeah, see, the whole upgrade train goes smoothly for the 300/400 series motherboard. But if you were switching over to the 500 series motherboard now, wouldn't the train for you come to a stop as if you were jumping aboard just one station before the last one?

That's true enough if mounting a high-end (and not easily available at the moment) 5900 or 5950X CPU. But you can still get started with something much more easily available, like a 5600x or 3700X, for great gaming performance . You can then later upgrade to 16 core/32 thread when you need improved rendering (for instance) performance...and can find one. But to make that transition feasible you need to 'future-proof' the motherboard purchase by getting one with decent VRM section.

But yes, it seems we're at the end of AM4 as no architecture-scale upgrades are planned for it.

 

[logainofhades]

Yea, and the same can be said for Intel's upcoming Alder lake chips. The socket is changing, requiring new motherboards. You just get better multicore options, with AMD, vs Intel. The i9 10900k's 10 cores is the limit. AMD you get the 12 and 16 core chips. (5900x/5950x)

 

[LighterST]

Hm, in this case I guess the most reasonable thing for me to do is to upgrade to 3600 without switching over to the B550 motherboard as the chipset is at its end anyway, right? 5600x is more powerful but we are talking 200$ vs 430$ for upgrading to 3600/5600 respectively with about 20% performance difference, right? It's just not worth it? Also considering that my current GTX 1080 may even not let me notice the gain(although I do tend to play games on low settings to get the sweet 144+ fps)?

 

[logainofhades]

This might help you decide. A 5600xt is similar, in performance, to a 1080/2060.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlfwXqODqp4

 

[LighterST]

This might help you decide. A 5600xt is similar, in performance, to a 1080/2060.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlfwXqODqp4

Uh... I don't doubt Hardware Unboxed's results but according to them I'm good to go with my r5 1600 as r5 5600 will be almost the same which is baffling because I'm very frequently seeing my GPU underperforming. I'm on my way to downloading R6: Siege where I'm almost certain the benchmark's results will differ significantly. The video linked also proves it cannot be the case though the games are different

 

[logainofhades]

Do you have XMP enabled on your rig, for ram?

 

[LighterST]

Do you have XMP enabled on your rig, for ram?

Yeah, running at 3000 MHz. I'm gonna double check everything with RivaTurner when running the benchmark

 

[LighterST]

Uh... I don't doubt Hardware Unboxed's results but according to them I'm good to go with my r5 1600 as r5 5600 will be almost the same which is baffling because I'm very frequently seeing my GPU underperforming. I'm on my way to downloading R6: Siege where I'm almost certain the benchmark's results will differ significantly. The video linked also proves it cannot be the case though the games are different

I have to take my word back, they do not differ significantly in R6: Siege. Wow. In this game nothing causes any trouble at all anymore. I guess, they optimized it? The GPU is at 80% though. But BF1, COD: Warzone, even Fortnite and TF2... There the GPU's load drops down to around 50-80% on low settings and it's just terrible experience

UPD: I guess R6:S is doing fine on ultra cause it scales the resolution to 50% by default! It runs on 1360x764 forced by T-AA

 

[logainofhades]

Fortnite is kinda CPU dependent, so 1st gen ryzen having some inconsistency isn't overly surprising. Even 3rd gen is quite an improvement, over 1st gen, with regards to cache latency, which was Ryzen's Achille's heel. Ryzen 5000 even further refined this. Much of Ryzen 5000's improved IPC was due to restructuring the cache to connect to all cores, instead of splitting it up. This improved latency quite a bit.

 

[logainofhades]

Please don't necro/hijack old threads. /closed