Question i5 3570 (non-K) vs Ryzen 2600 for Gaming

[afromac]

Is there going to be much of a difference upgrading from the i5 to the Ryzen?

I've been looking at some benches online and the 7 year old Intel seems to keep up pretty well!

 

[jeremyj_83]

Best I can do is show you a benchmark setup between an i5-2500k and Ryzen 2600. The 3570 & 2500k are almost equal on clockspeed and the IPC is pretty close. At most the 3570 will have 5% better performance.
https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2362?vs=2355
Overall the 2600 will be faster than the 3570 by a decent amount and be better served for when you get into games that work with threading better. Also you can easily overclock the 2600 to 2600X speeds to increase performance even more.
https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2362?vs=2256

 

[Rdslw]

Yup for last 4-6 years intel did not break a bank. All cpus are 5-10% better than previous gen, which means old 3'rd gen i5 is around same performer as newer i3 (~7'th gen)
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-3570-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-2600/m793vs3955
(I like that website, its quite accurate) it means 2600 ryzen will give almost identical performance in games,
but in creator mode, 8core+ stuff you get twice the horsepower,
and remember that its affected by 2 things:
MELTDOWN (so intell cpu is ~10% slower than it's shown in benchmarks PRE metldown era)
M.2/RAM speed. Even if CPU itself is not much faster, 3GB/s storage and twice the ram/twice the ram speed, can do A LOT of good stuff.


By the way, my daily driver is still i5 3210m laptop. it does all I need and for whatever reason I need more, I switch to desktop.

 

[afromac]

Thanks!

Those old Intels are amazing, and at 4K there is nothing in it.

This machine is just a living room gaming box really, so I might just save my money and wait a few more years!