[SOLVED] How much there's a difference between Ryzen 3 1200 and Ryzen 5 1600 ?

[blablaalb]

So, I was looking for a cheap CPU under 100$ price and bought AMD Ryzen 3 1200 for 92$ on ebay. Few days after it I spotted that a brand new Ryzen 5 1600 is being sold for 99$. I feel like I made a mistake and I shouldn't had bought the Ryzen 3. I wonder how much did I loose by buying Ryzen 3 instead of the Ryzen 5 and how much there's a difference between these two?

 

[boju]

Really depends what you need the cpu for, you'll probably be fine with the 1200.

The 1600 would have been a much better deal though for that price. 6c/12t has more of a future but again, depends what you're doing. If gaming, the 1600 would be preferred.

 

[blablaalb]

That's why one never should be in rush to buy something. If I only took my time and did a little bit more research... My primarily goal was to use it in video editing and rendering.

 

[InvalidError]

The 1600 has 50% more cores, SMT and more cache. In multi-threaded workloads, that would be up to about twice as much potential performance. For games, it would depend on how lightly or heavily threaded the games you play are.