Which Ryzen should I upgrade to?

[tfeverston99]

I am currently using the Ryzen 3 1300X processor and i am looking to upgrade to get more performance in CPU intensive games such as GTA V and PUBG.

Current Specs:
MSI B350 Tomahawk
Ryzen 3 1300X
16GB DDR4-2400
GTX 1060-6GB SC

 

[dontlistentome]

The usual way is to move up in clockspeed and/or add more cores/threads. Since you're at the top end of Ryzen 3, then you'd want to jump to the mid to top end of Ryzen 5. Make sure you update your motherboard bios first. Then look into something like a Ryzen 2600.

 

[punkncat]

This is a bit tough. Before I even answered I would ask and am under the assumption that you are gaming at 1080 at probably high settings?

In games that aren't core intensive you aren't going to see a significant improvement with any of the current Ryzen over that chip with your current card. Benchmarks seem to bear out good frame rates being had with many titles on the R3 variants at the 1060/580 GPU level. Things that are core intensive will make a bit of difference, but you also start running into how much GPU you have.

So, to the point, I wouldn't spend the money on an R5 over what you have. I am not sure a new R7 would be worthwhile with the GPU. I am sure you would see improvement, but at what cost?
If you were looking for cheapest possible, try and catch that R7 1700 ~$180 deal that's been peeking around. The Ryzen refresh is still too high in cost to offset the small perf boost IMO.