Question Was getting a Ryzen 5 3600 a good choice than Ryzen 5 5600/x ?

[Trickybone]

Just recently I installed a Ryzen 5 3600 for my pc. I chose a Ryzen 5 3600 because my motherboard b450-HDV seems like a great choice than having a Ryzen 5 5600/x may potentially bottlenecking it. Though I've been thinking if Ryzen 5 3600 was the right choice to go with GTX 1660 super as Ryzen 5 5600/x is better and almost same price being $30 more. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

 

[Aeacus]

In gaming PCs, your GPU will be far more likely a bottleneck than your CPU, since most games are GPU bound. Now, those games that are CPU bound (e.g Cities:Skylines, Sid Meier series), there you might run into the CPU bottleneck issue.

Since R5 3600 is older, R5 5600X does have better performance,
comparison: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-3600-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-5600X/4040vs4084

All-in-all, is there need for buyers remorse? No.
Would you have gone with better CPU? Yes.

 

[Karadjgne]

Throw opinions about bottlenecks out the window. Permanently. Absolute pointless supposition. The 5600x is a far superior choice over a 3600, even on that board, if for nothing else than ram compatibility. As it stands, the 5600x has much greater Lcache than a 3700x and handily beats it in just about every gaming scenario, there's very few games, like fortnite, that take advantage of core count over Lcache.

For $30 extra, I'd jump on the 5600x in a heartbeat. It'll be much more relevant in gaming ability for far longer than a 3600, which means you'll not need to replace or upgrade it for far longer. Which saves you a lot more money than the initial $30 investment.

 

[CountMike]

Just recently I installed a Ryzen 5 3600 for my pc. I chose a Ryzen 5 3600 because my motherboard b450-HDV seems like a great choice than having a Ryzen 5 5600/x may potentially bottlenecking it. Though I've been thinking if Ryzen 5 3600 was the right choice to go with GTX 1660 super as Ryzen 5 5600/x is better and almost same price being $30 more. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

B450 MB, with some exceptions for OC, will not "bottleneck" 5600x in no way, With your 3600 being non-X, you can expect more than 20% better game performance with 5600x.

 

[Flayed]

Just recently I installed a Ryzen 5 3600 for my pc. I chose a Ryzen 5 3600 because my motherboard b450-HDV seems like a great choice than having a Ryzen 5 5600/x may potentially bottlenecking it. Though I've been thinking if Ryzen 5 3600 was the right choice to go with GTX 1660 super as Ryzen 5 5600/x is better and almost same price being $30 more. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

If your motherboard shipped with an older bios installed it could have been a pain in the a** to get a 5600X to boot, so in that sense, the 3600 was the "easy life" choice

 

[Trickybone]

Throw opinions about bottlenecks out the window. Permanently. Absolute pointless supposition. The 5600x is a far superior choice over a 3600, even on that board, if for nothing else than ram compatibility. As it stands, the 5600x has much greater Lcache than a 3700x and handily beats it in just about every gaming scenario, there's very few games, like fortnite, that take advantage of core count over Lcache.

For $30 extra, I'd jump on the 5600x in a heartbeat. It'll be much more relevant in gaming ability for far longer than a 3600, which means you'll not need to replace or upgrade it for far longer. Which saves you a lot more money than the initial $30 investment.

I'm pretty much into gaming, so is it worth returning my Ryzen 5 3600 for a 20% better game performance and $30 investment.

 

[kerberos_20]

I'm pretty much into gaming, so is it worth returning my Ryzen 5 3600 for a 20% better game performance and $30 investment.

yes

 

[Flayed]

I'm pretty much into gaming, so is it worth returning my Ryzen 5 3600 for a 20% better game performance and $30 investment.

Just make sure you update to the latest bios first

 

[sizzling]

I'm pretty much into gaming, so is it worth returning my Ryzen 5 3600 for a 20% better game performance and $30 investment.

It’s up to you. Paired with a 1660 I highly doubt you will see any difference, I just cannot see the gpu being able to utilise the extra cpu performance. However if you have a plan to upgrade only the gpu in the future it might be worth the cpu upgrade to give you more cpu headroom.

What Hz is your monitor? No point worrying about extra fps if your display cannot use the extra frames.

 

[Friesiansam]

Just recently I installed a Ryzen 5 3600 for my pc. I chose a Ryzen 5 3600 because my motherboard b450-HDV seems like a great choice than having a Ryzen 5 5600/x may potentially bottlenecking it. Though I've been thinking if Ryzen 5 3600 was the right choice to go with GTX 1660 super as Ryzen 5 5600/x is better and almost same price being $30 more. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Why didn't you ask the question BEFORE buying?

 

[Trickybone]

If your motherboard shipped with an older bios installed it could have been a pain in the a** to get a 5600X to boot, so in that sense, the 3600 was the "easy life" choice

Let alone that It was a pain to get my bios to work with the 3600.

Why didn't you ask the question BEFORE buying?

It's like what sizzling said, paired with the 1660 I won't see any difference which I thought of before buying my cpu.

 

[Trickybone]

It’s up to you. Paired with a 1660 I highly doubt you will see any difference, I just cannot see the gpu being able to utilise the extra cpu performance. However if you have a plan to upgrade only the gpu in the future it might be worth the cpu upgrade to give you more cpu headroom.

What Hz is your monitor? No point worrying about extra fps if your display cannot use the extra frames.

True, my gpu cannot utilize the potential of the Ryzen 5 5600 to it's maximum performance. Not only that my monitor Hz is 60 so I guess there's no need to worry about extra frames.

 

[sizzling]

True, my gpu cannot utilize the potential of the Ryzen 5 5600 to it's maximum performance. Not only that my monitor Hz is 60 so I guess there's no need to worry about extra frames.

In which case enjoy your setup as it is