Question Wanting to upgrade.

[Sens1489]

What would a worthwhile upgrade be from a Ryzen 5 2400G ?

 

[lvt]

What would a worthwhile upgrade be from a Ryzen 5 2400G ?

What motherboard do you have?

 

[Sens1489]

What motherboard do you have?

MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX ATX AM4

 

[lvt]

MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX ATX AM4

Unless you want to drop $500 on the 5800X3D (96MB cache), I think the 5700G would be a nice upgrade.

3.8GHz

4MB L2 cache

16MB L3 cache

Don't just look at the Mhz, it's a different CPU with much more cache memory.

 

[Sens1489]

Unless you want to drop $500 on the 5800X3D (96MB cache), I think the 5700G would be a nice upgrade.

3.8GHz

4MB L2 cache

16MB L3 cache

Don't just look at the Mhz, it's a different CPU with much more cache memory.

How about a 5600g ?

 

[Why_Me]

How about a 5600g ?

Pair it up with a set of DDR4 3200 or DDR4 3600.

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-5600-ryzen-5-5000-series/p/N82E16819113736
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[Sens1489]

Pair it up with a set of DDR4 3200 or DDR4 3600.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-5-5600

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-5-5600-and-ryzen-5-5500-review

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I have ddr4 3200 ?

 

[drea.drechsler]

I have ddr4 3200 ?

Do you have a discrete GPU? Is gaming even a consideration? If it is, and you don't have one, now's pretty much the time for buying one to go with a 5600 or 5600XT CPU.

 

[Sens1489]

Do you have a discrete GPU? Is gaming even a consideration? If it is, and you don't have one, now's pretty much the time for buying one to go with a 5600 or 5600XT CPU.

I have a 3050

 

[drea.drechsler]

I have a 3050

Then your best upgrade for gaming is 5800X3d if budget allows...or 5600X if you want best price to performance, 5600 for a bit cheaper. Getting a 5600g is a waste since it's giving up a lot of L3 cache (1/2 that of a 5600/X) just to throw away the iGPU. The thing that makes a 5800X3d such a gaming beast is the doubled L3 cache compared to a 5800X; the same principle holds true here.

If your concern is productivity and creativity (video editing and rendering, 3d graphics, etc) then a 5700X or 5800X.

Whichever 5000 CPU you get be sure to upgrade BIOS to the latest first, then reset CMOS once you've installed the new CPU.

 

[lvt]

How about a 5600g ?

I'd recommend the 5700G for :

CPU Cores : 8 vs 6.

Threads : 16 vs 12.

Max CPU Freq. : 4.6Ghz vs 4.4Ghz.

L2 cache : 4MB vs 3MB (each MB in L2 cache makes a lot of difference in performance).

Graphics Core Count : 8 vs 7.

Graphics Frequency : 2000Mhz vs 1900Mhz.

 

[drea.drechsler]

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L2 cache : 4MB vs 3MB (each MB in L2 cache makes a lot of difference in performance).

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L2 cache is local to each CPU core in Vermeer, there are more cores for any 8 core 5700 vs any 6 core 5600. A cache miss in L2 means a big latency hit to fetch it from another core's L2. That's why Vermeer features such a large L3, common to all cores on a die, which was a major contributor to it's performance uplift. A 5700G (Cezanne) features 1/2 the L3 cache of 5700X. For just a few bucks more a 5700X has much better performance and price/performance value for productivity/creativity where it's 8 cores shine. At $30-40 cheaper(than 5700g) a 5600X is much, much better price/performance value for gaming and only very slightly poorer performance even in productivity/creativity.