[SOLVED] Workstation CPU

[n3cw4rr10r]

AMD 4th Gen Ryzen 9 5900X Processor 3.7GHz/4.8GHz Max Boost-Hi-Perf. Sealed Liquid Cooling Dual Fan Radiator-64MB Cache 12-Core/24-Thread 105W TDP AM4 Socket 7nm

11th Gen Intel Core i7-11700KF (Without Graphics) 8-Core, 16-Threads, 16MB Cache, 3.6GHz to 5.0GHz w/Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Freq. Hi-Perf. Liquid Cooled Single Fan w/Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound

The workstation will be primarily used for Solidworks. Any reason to choose one over the other? Cost is Identical.

Other basic specs:

32gb DDR4-3600
Nvidia A2000 12gb
650 Gold PSU

 

[COLGeek]

Dealer's choice. Both should perform well. More of a matter of preference (as I type this on my Ryzen 7 5800X rig while my Ryzen 9 5950X rig is sitting to my left).

 

[Eximo]

Does Solidworks have any particular recommendations? The only real difference is that the Intel chip is a monolithic design and the AMD chip uses two separate CPU dies and an I/O die. So certain tasks can be slower on AMD, but that can easily be made up with the extra 4 cores.

Costs of 10th gen seems to be on the rise. I compromised and went with the i9-10900F with 10 cores.

 

[n3cw4rr10r]

Does Solidworks have any particular recommendations? The only real difference is that the Intel chip is a monolithic design and the AMD chip uses two separate CPU dies and an I/O die. So certain tasks can be slower on AMD, but that can easily be made up with the extra 4 cores.

Costs of 10th gen seems to be on the rise. I compromised and went with the i9-10900F with 10 cores.

Solidworks doesnt care. Here are their recommended specs:

https://www.goengineer.com/hardware-recommendations-for-solidworks

 

[Eximo]

Puget has a short list, but doesn't include the latest hardware.

SOLIDWORKS 2020 SP5 AMD Ryzen 5000 Series CPU Performance

AMD's Ryzen 5000 Series processors have shown stellar performance across a wide range of applications so far, and now we have the opportunity to test them head-to-head against Intel's Core series in SOLIDWORKS 2020.

www.pugetsystems.com

5900X is the winner in these tests. They have another article with older CPUs, but they also include Xeons and Threadrippers and a lot more multi-threaded tests, which really would lean you towards Threadripper.