Choose between the Ryzen 5 3600 and the Ryzen 7 2700X based on your needs.
Choose between the Ryzen 5 3600 and the Ryzen 7 2700X based on your needs.
For Black Friday I considered upgrading my system. My setup is a B450 Tomahawk Max running a Ryzen 3 3100. The 2700X costs 170£ new, while the 3600 is 180£ new and could drop more during the sale. My main needs are gaming, some recording, streaming, and video editing with Premiere or Vegas. I’m weighing the Ryzen 7 2700X because its extra cores might help with encoding for streaming and recording. However, with the IPC boosts and 7nm process the Ryzen 5 3600 seems less impactful.
It varies by GPU model. For AMD cards, the encoder isn't working on the 5000 series. The 6000 series has issues but you can stream if it's a Turing-based card with the updated NVENC encoder. If not, using the CPU remains the best option.
Also includes Nvidia and Big Navi, but we're not sure about it.
I would choose 2700x since PS5 and Xbox Series X/S each have 8-core CPUs, allowing newer titles to utilize 8C16T effectively.
It's an RX 480 model with minor modifications. I’d rather sacrifice some GPU power for better CPU performance.
It functions, though the quality falls short compared to x264 CPU encoding or NVENC.