Question What is the best am4 5000 cpu for rx 6700 xt?

[Thomson1511]

The current config:
ASUS prime B550M-A
AMD ryzen 7 pro 4750G
4*8 gb ddr4 hyperx 3200mhz
AMD radeon rx 6700xt 12gb
NVME M.2 SSD 1 TB

I am wondering if i should upgrade my current cpu for a better one. I would use it for unreal engine 5 game dev. and gaming in 1080p.

 

[jnjnilson6]

The current config:
ASUS prime B550M-A
AMD ryzen 7 pro 4750G
4*8 gb ddr4 hyperx 3200mhz
AMD radeon rx 6700xt 12gb
NVME M.2 SSD 1 TB

I am wondering if i should upgrade my current cpu for a better one. I would use it for unreal engine 5 game dev. and gaming in 1080p.

Hello and welcome to the Forums!

Quite a good system you've got there. Do you think the upgrade would be mandatory? I mean - is the current state of the system not providing as per your requirements? Do you really need the extra boost? Well, if so - the Ryzen 9 5950X would provide quite the kick for the buck, but it would not be something overly tremendous.

If things are Okay as they are now I'd say wait about a year or two and then upgrade the motherboard and move to a newer platform that would provide a tremendous increase in performance.

Thank you for writing up!

 

[jnjnilson6]

The current config:
ASUS prime B550M-A
AMD ryzen 7 pro 4750G
4*8 gb ddr4 hyperx 3200mhz
AMD radeon rx 6700xt 12gb
NVME M.2 SSD 1 TB

I am wondering if i should upgrade my current cpu for a better one. I would use it for unreal engine 5 game dev. and gaming in 1080p.

Additionally, if you do upgrade the CPU make sure that before you've installed it the BIOS of the system is upgraded to the latest version; or in the case of the Ryzen 9 5950X - to version 1212 or higher.

 

[Thomson1511]

I mean in gaming it is working really fine. I just saw that the current cpu has a 25% bottleneck and i think i will need that extra power in unreal engine. I have the newest bios update because i’m fighting with a display problem that i could not solve yet

 

[Dashman9000]

Personally i'd go with the 5700x. Very affordable at the moment and just slightly slower and much easier to cool than the 5950x. When I had the 5700x installed I had it OC at a solid 4.7 GHz and had a idle of 30C. Recently upgraded to a 5950x, I like it as well but so far I can only push it to 4.825 GHz with a manual OC....it's idle is around 35C using a 280 mm AIO.
https://www.amazon.com/AMD-5700X-16...9&sprefix=AMD+RYZEN+5700X,aps,109&sr=8-2&th=1

 

[Unolocogringo]

I mean in gaming it is working really fine. I just saw that the current cpu has a 25% bottleneck and i think i will need that extra power in unreal engine. I have the newest bios update because i’m fighting with a display problem that i could not solve yet

Forget about everything those bottleneck calculators suggest.
It does not exist as they state it.
It is almost impossible to have a completely balanced system for ALL scenarios.
On one game your CPU might be the limiting factor in FPS.
The next game you play the GPU might be the limiting factor in FPS.
And yes if you upgraded to a much faster single threaded CPU you would get more FPS, then the bottleneck calculator would say your 6700xt is a bottleneck for your CPU and you could get more FPS with a GPU upgrade.
You have a nice fairly balanced system forget about the sham/scam science "Bottleneck Calculators" and enjoy your system.

 

[Thomson1511]

I read that 5600 is better than 5700x because of the l3 per core. Is it really that way? Or is it better to have 8 cores for game developing?

 

[Unolocogringo]

It can be if you are a system tweeker, (Click my CPUZ banner) but at stock the 5700x is a better CPU with 2 more cores and 4 more threads and faster clock speeds.
And your lottery pick CPU may not tweek the same as mine.
Their is a lot of misinformation on the internet that people believe and keep repeating as truth, does not make it true though.

 

[Nyara]

UE5 dev is extremely core hungry, with even two Intel e-cores adding the same uplift as a whole p-core in UE5 dev, while normally the relation is four e-cores for one p-core. Then it is followed by single-thread performance, but all Ryzen 5000 series fares similarly here (which is about 15%-20% better than yours).

Everything else in the CPU is kinda irrelevant outside play-testing, and for that you just need a CPU that can keep up with your GPU, which your current CPU more than does.

So I recommend you the 5950X (16 cores) by far. The 5900X (12 cores) should also provide an uplift if you need to budget. I do not recommend the 5700X or 5800X since both are 8 cores, you will not notice a significant uplift with UE5. The 5600X (6 cores) will slow down your UE5 experience, but can improve gaming with the extra cache.

If you cannot afford the 5900X, then honestly just save up for a better platform later and stick with what you have meanwhile, or pick a 5700X3D or 5800X3D for gaming and marginal (25%'ish) UE5 improvement.

If you do not have 32GB of RAM yet, consider upgrading that first, too, UE5 slowdowns heavily on 16GB as it uses your storage as RAM.