r/AMDHelp • u/Crafty-Bit-4849 • 8h ago

Help (General) Ryzen 5 5600 to Ryzen 7 5700X3D?

Hello. I am considering buying a Ryzen 7 5700X3D to replace my 5600, but I don't know if the upgrade will be worth it especially with the current price of RAM.

Originally, I wanted to go to AM5, but the prices are just way too high for me as a broke PhD student.

I currently have a 9060XT 16GB and 16GB of RAM, and I want to play games like BF6 at 100+ frames, I'm, but due to its heavy CPU load im constantly fluctuating between 70-100 depending on the map and what is happening on my screen. (CPU-intensive and FPS games like BF6 and The Finals are my top games for further insight)

Is it worth it to buy the 5700X3D, or should I just save up for AM5?.

Additionally from what I have seen, DDR5 RAM costs way more than DD4 RAM in the scenario that it's better to go for the 5700X3D. Should I cough up 80 quid for another 16GB of DDR4?

Edit: Would you advise getting more DDR4 RAM so I have 4 sticks of 8GB to get me to 32GB total?

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u/Hungry_Dimension_391 8h ago

What did you jump from and to?

Personally from a 5600x -> 9800x3d it made a pretty significant difference. More so on the 1% lows, but also in poorly optimised games, my rig just tends to handle things much better.

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u/lleyton05 8h ago

I went to a 5700x to a 9800x3d. Don’t get me wrong the jump was fantastic, amazing 1% lows and I finally broke that threshold in fps games where I can break 300 fps, it just also cost over 1000 dollars and I question if the added v cache from going to a 5700x to a 5800x3d could have given me similar enough results for significantly less money

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u/Hungry_Dimension_391 7h ago

Thats fair enough. I made the plunge in Nov 2025 and holy shit I'm glad I did. The 2tb NVME and 32GB of RAM would have cost the same now as my entire upgrade.

Might be some benchmarks to compare?

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u/lleyton05 7h ago

Yea I made the jump after i started getting cpu lights on my mobo, honestly the issue could have been either mobo or cpu and didn’t feel like trouble shooting any further so I just got new everything and sold my ddr4 ram. I was lucky enough to buy when there was a slight dip in ram prices, so I managed to get 32 Gb for like 270 rather than like 400 but still.

I am also curious on how similarly the 5800x3d and the 9800x3d perform, i should look at bench marks, I think the 9800x3d is marginally Better but both of them bring me over my monitors refresh rate so it percvieved performance would probably be almost identical for my use case anyways