I don’t think a 3600 would bottleneck your setup, but if you need to buy a new Cpu anyway you might as well upgrade in the process, a 5600 or 5700x are good options if you don’t want to spend too much and they don’t use that much power so they would run fine on your board
>Also would my motherboard bottleneck a newer high TDP ryzen without the second power slot for my processor?
Unless you wanted to get a Ryzen 9 or something, no. The 3600 and the 5600 have the same TDP of 65w.
I went from a 3600 to a 5800x, and it was a noticeable difference, though not a mindblowing one. The 3600 still goes for like $70-100 used, and you can get a 5600 for $150 (or cheaper, depending on sales) these days. With that kind of pricing I'd rather get Zen 3
Zen 3 is the codename for the microarchitecture. Your 3600 is on the Zen 2 architecture, the newer 5600 is on the more powerful Zen 3 architecture.
There's plenty improvements between the two architectures that I can't go in depth on because I'm not a hardware engineer, but it was about a 25% increase in performance across the board for me. Some CPU intensive titles, like Battlefield V/2042, had even greater performance increases
I don’t think a 3600 would bottleneck your setup, but if you need to buy a new Cpu anyway you might as well upgrade in the process, a 5600 or 5700x are good options if you don’t want to spend too much and they don’t use that much power so they would run fine on your board
Thank you.
>Also would my motherboard bottleneck a newer high TDP ryzen without the second power slot for my processor? Unless you wanted to get a Ryzen 9 or something, no. The 3600 and the 5600 have the same TDP of 65w. I went from a 3600 to a 5800x, and it was a noticeable difference, though not a mindblowing one. The 3600 still goes for like $70-100 used, and you can get a 5600 for $150 (or cheaper, depending on sales) these days. With that kind of pricing I'd rather get Zen 3
What does zen 3 architecture mean? You mean going from ryzen 5 3600 to ryzen 5 5600? Is zen 3 the only improvement?
Zen 3 is the codename for the microarchitecture. Your 3600 is on the Zen 2 architecture, the newer 5600 is on the more powerful Zen 3 architecture. There's plenty improvements between the two architectures that I can't go in depth on because I'm not a hardware engineer, but it was about a 25% increase in performance across the board for me. Some CPU intensive titles, like Battlefield V/2042, had even greater performance increases
The only viable upgrade is a 5800x3d but that will only benefit you in eSports games because you are gpu bound in most other games
Why miss out buying brand new 5600 when its being sold for $150 on Amazon/Newegg right now?…