[SOLVED] X5650 vs 4790k

[banned.in.queensland7]

Now the answer to my question may seem obvious but please bear with me.

My current cpu is a x5650 running at 4ghz with the intention of going higher when my bigger cooler arrives (backorder)

I have found a few deals here and there for i7 4790k's and mid range motherboards which can be had for about $350 aud. My pc is used for gaming, video editing, streaming, music editing etc. (mix of single and multi-threaded tasks)

I already know that the 4790k will wipe the floor with the xeon all day everyday (GPU is a 980ti) in games and single threaded tasks, but i havent been able to find much info on how the multi-thread performance differs, short of some CPU-Z benchmark numbers. Any light that can be shed on this would be awesome, id love a performance boost in games but id prefer not to do so at the expense of everything else if I can avoid it.

Cheers

 

[Lutfij]

They are both on different sockets, for one. Then is the matter of what board you're going to be dealing with and subsequent frequency's with ram kits. You're better off going with the pseudo newer platform, or rather the more recent product when compared between the two.

You also didn't mention what apps you'd be running on the platform.

Mind sharing your current specs like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

 

[guanyu210379]

x5650 has 2 more cores (6/12)
I7 4790k (4/8) is roughly up to 50% faster on the single thread performance.
I think, no matter how good the multi-threading is on the X5650, I think 4790k is simply better due to the much better single thread performance.

The thing is, depending how you have to pay for the I7 4790k and mainboard. If you can not get them dirt cheap, jumping to Ryzen 5 2600 6/12 (x or no x) or Ryzen 7 2700 8/16 (x or no x) should be better.
Single thread wise, those Ryzen is roughly on par with 4790k but they have more cores/threads.
If you do not like the red team, I7 8700k is also a good idea.