[SOLVED] Choosing 5600 or 5800X3D with an AsRock B450M Pro4 (On a budget)

[eternalabys]

Hey everyone,

As the title reads, I'm currently choosing between the R5 5600 and R7 5800X3D, because I need an upgrade from my 3200G as it's getting painfully bottlenecked by my GTX 1080.

Currently I can get a 5600 for around 140 Euro, (5700X doesn't exist outside of OEM and used)
5800X (for 230 Euro) is kinda meh if I'm going to go up in price, If I would go high end, I'd full send it with the X3D considering it costs 330 Euro.

Budget is indeed very tight and I'm trying to save up for either of which CPU (5600 I can get in a few weeks, 5800X3D, a few months at least).
Which is why I'm leaning towards the 5600, but also want to maximize performance so I wouldn't regret it lol, certainly a 1st world predicament.

My main concern now is my PSU, as it's a Corsair TX550W model.
Although the PSU is a good model, I'd be very close to the max with my 1080 pulling 230W regularly and a 5600 pulling around 150W or a X3D pulling about 220W.

Here's my setup specs if anyone's interested:

CPU: Ryzen 3 3200G

CPU Cooler: Arctic LFII 240

Mobo: AsRock B450M Pro4

RAM: 2x8GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB
2x8GB Patriot Viper Steel
(Both running 2800MHz CL16 @1.4V)

SSD: Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB
WD Blue 1TB

GPU: EVGA SC GTX 1080

Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2

PSU: Corsair TXM 550W

Case Fans: 3x be quiet! Silent Wings 3 120mm
3x Fractal Design Dynamic X2 GP-14 (Stock)

Monitors: AOC 24G2U
Acer AL1916W
Mouse: Logitech G502 SE
Headphones: HyperX Cloud Alpha
Keyboard: Hyperx Alloy FPS

 

[hotaru.hino]

Seeing how you have a GTX 1080, the 5600 will do more than enough to keep the video card busy if you like to crank up the quality. I don't think it's worth getting a 5800X3D, even if that 15-20% performance uplift in games looks tempting.

Also I'm not sure how you got these numbers:

...and a 5600 pulling around 150W or a X3D pulling about 220W.

If you halve those values and add 5-10, that represents closer to what they'll actually draw on average under load.

 

[eternalabys]

Seeing how you have a GTX 1080, the 5600 will do more than enough to keep the video card busy if you like to crank up the quality. I don't think it's worth getting a 5800X3D, even if that 15-20% performance uplift in games looks tempting.

Also I'm not sure how you got these numbers:

If you halve those values and add 5-10, that represents closer to what they'll actually draw on average under load.

Thank you for the quick response, yeah, I thought as much, I'll probably just save up for the 5600 and just wait till I'm not satisfied or piece by piece upgrade the system, next on the list for me would be PSU, SSD's and then the whole CPU/Mobo/RAM, maybe even the CPU Cooler, would depend highly on if I wanted to build a custom loop lol.

I was using a relatively flawed method of using GURU3D's numbers on both of the CPU's power consumption while under full synthetic load, reason for it being flawed is that the numbers use full system power consumption, and their test bench had a 3090 which has a relatively high idle power draw, doubt it's half though, and certainly no where near TDP, hell, before I got my GPU, my 3200G would often run in to 110W under full iGPU and CPU load, even though it's said to be a 65W chip.