[SOLVED] How important are threads (in a budget build)?

[ArtMorte]

I'm doing a budget build and considering between Ryzen 5 3500X and Ryzen 5 3600 - the first one is about €40 cheaper to me.
These CPUs are practically identical except for the 3600 having 12 threads against the 3500X's 6 threads.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-3600-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-3500X/4040vs4052

That's a comparison between the two, which concludes they perform practically identically. Quoting: "Early UserBenchmarks show that there is just a 1% gap in effective speed between the 3500X and 3600."

So, how much advantage do you get from having 12 threads instead of 6 in otherwise very similar CPUs?

 

[Gam3r01]

Userbenchmark is a joke, they heavily weight single core performance over multi core, and dont even test beyond 8 cores in that test.
It really depends what you are planning to use the system for, but the way things are going these days having 12 threads for a small price increase would be a solid investment.

For gaming, the performance is going to be near identical, but for content creation and other workloads (rendering, encoding, etc) the difference is massive.
You can compare in the tables here https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-5-3500x-review-expreview,40605.html

 

[Zerk2012]

I'm doing a budget build and considering between Ryzen 5 3500X and Ryzen 5 3600 - the first one is about €40 cheaper to me.
These CPUs are practically identical except for the 3600 having 12 threads against the 3500X's 6 threads.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-3600-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-3500X/4040vs4052

That's a comparison between the two, which concludes they perform practically identically. Quoting: "Early UserBenchmarks show that there is just a 1% gap in effective speed between the 3500X and 3600."

So, how much advantage do you get from having 12 threads instead of 6 in otherwise very similar CPUs?

Depends on what your using the PC for. If you look way down on that page it shows 64 core benchmark that shows the 3600 44% better.

For gaming I would probably get the 3600 in most games over 6 cores don't matter but in a few it does. Might be better in the future and might not.

 

[Math Geek]

as others have noted, what you plan on using it for makes the decision for you. but for 40 bucks i'd get the 3600 every time.