[SOLVED] Purchasing a Ryzen 7 3800x now before the new Ryzen 5000?

[KU7AH]

Hello everyone!

First post on this site so I hope I'm not at the wrong place, but I'm in the following situation: Current rig runs a GTX 1060 and a Ryzen 5 2600. I want to upgrade my GPU, resulting in a CPU upgrade being necessary too, especially as I'm playing on 1080p 144Hz. I was thinking about buying the Ryzen 7 3800x. I'm well aware the GPU will be bottlenecked, but I am planning to upgrade it soon anyway and I think a GPU bottleneck is more desirable there than a CPU bottleneck, especially with the settings I'm playing on.

Sooo my question is.. is a Ryzen 7 3800x worth it now? I've seen the 5000 series of the Ryzen, but I'm not sure if I should wait for these, as I don't really want to spend more for a CPU than the 3800x costs already.

Thanks a lot everyone!

 

[siaan312]

Get a new gpu first, Then upgrade the cpu later on.
There will be some bottlenecking, but it's not a huge deal, especially for a short term thing.


I suggest waiting for ryzen 5000, even if you won't buy it.
Either it will be worth it, and you will buy a better ryzen 5000, or, the prices of the 3000 will drop and you will buy a 3000 at a cheaper price.
either way, waiting a month is totally worth it.

 

[KU7AH]

Get a new gpu first, Then upgrade the cpu later on.
There will be some bottlenecking, but it's not a huge deal, especially for a short term thing.


I suggest waiting for ryzen 5000, even if you won't buy it.
Either it will be worth it, and you will buy a better ryzen 5000, or, the prices of the 3000 will drop and you will buy a 3000 at a cheaper price.
either way, waiting a month is totally worth it.

Yeah, I thought about waiting just for the price drop, too. Guess I'll wait and see then. Also, I've heard that the CPU is more important than a GPU when playing at 1080p 144Hz or 1440p. To what extent is it true and why is it smarter for me to upgrade the GPU first? Is it the fact that I'm so close hitting the bottleneck with my current GPU that I would barely see any difference? (I don't know how to phrase that, hope you got me)
I'm thinking about buying the upcoming 3070 to be honest (I know, overkill for how I play, but I want it to be future proof for a while) and I've heard the Ryzen 7 3800x will do fine with it.

Thanks a lot for the answer!

 

[BogdanH]

This fall is being interesting: new nVidia cards came to market (apparently), new AMD CPU's around the corner, new AMD cards shortly after,.. new Intel CPU's in spring (maybe)...
You already have working system, so as usually suggested, waiting for a month won't hurt. But my prediction is, prices of the current AMD CPU's won't go down (much) anymore. The thing is, new AMD CPU's pricing isn't that "budget" oriented and many (who can afford) will buy them at that price. So, there's no reason to decrease (already low) prices for current CPU's. Ok, within a year time period, they will probably get even cheaper -that is, at the time when prices for new CPU's will also decrease (hopefully).

My opinion: If your budget is 3800X, then get it and don't look back.
And about "CPU more important than GPU at low resolutions", see following video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrzqoeQVg4k

 

[siaan312]

This fall is being interesting: new nVidia cards came to market (apparently), new AMD CPU's around the corner, new AMD cards shortly after,.. new Intel CPU's in spring (maybe)...
You already have working system, so as usually suggested, waiting for a month won't hurt. But my prediction is, prices of the current AMD CPU's won't go down (much) anymore. The thing is, new AMD CPU's pricing isn't that "budget" oriented and many (who can afford) will buy them at that price. So, there's no reason to decrease (already low) prices for current CPU's. Ok, within a year time period, they will probably get even cheaper -that is, at the time when prices for new CPU's will also decrease (hopefully).

My opinion: If your budget is 3800X, then get it and don't look back.
And about "CPU more important than GPU at low resolutions", see following video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrzqoeQVg4k

Older cpu's lose value, even if they are still a packing.
The i9 9900k was replaced only a few months ago, and is already down as low as 330$ from its original 493$.

Ryzen 3000 will drop in price when 5000 hits, that's just how things work, even if that affect is lessened by AMD's less aggressive pricing this year.

Yeah, I thought about waiting just for the price drop, too. Guess I'll wait and see then. Also, I've heard that the CPU is more important than a GPU when playing at 1080p 144Hz or 1440p. To what extent is it true and why is it smarter for me to upgrade the GPU first? Is it the fact that I'm so close hitting the bottleneck with my current GPU that I would barely see any difference? (I don't know how to phrase that, hope you got me)
I'm thinking about buying the upcoming 3070 to be honest (I know, overkill for how I play, but I want it to be future proof for a while) and I've heard the Ryzen 7 3800x will do fine with it.

Thanks a lot for the answer!

Gpu is almost always more important than cpu.
At lower resolutions, the cpu works harder than the gpu, but that doesn't mean it's more important.

 

[drea.drechsler]

Hello everyone!

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Sooo my question is.. is a Ryzen 7 3800x worth it now? I've seen the 5000 series of the Ryzen, but I'm not sure if I should wait for these, as I don't really want to spend more for a CPU than the 3800x costs already.

Thanks a lot everyone!

If you need 8 cores/16 threads, yes it's worth it. But it will be even MORE worth it if you can wait a bit for sales. 5000 processors are hitting early November so that sets up late November to be an excellent time for deep discounts during black Friday sales events. I have to think AMD and retailers will take that opportunity to shed stock of the older product.

 

[KU7AH]

Thank you so much everyone! Checked out the video, that really does look promising. I probably missunderstood the whole CPU/GPU power thing for low res then. I guess I will wait for the new 5000 series then and see how the prices will change.