I am currently sitting with a 5 year old X99 platform consisting of a MSI X99S Krait Edition motherboard along with 32GB (4x8GB) Kingston Savage DDR4 2666MHz CL13 ram and an Intel Corei i7 6950X 10 core / 20 thread CPU running 4.2GHz 24/7. I am wondering if it is time to upgrade now ? and if there are CPU's out there that will make a decent bump in performance over my current one. I use my PC for everything - gaming, work, video editing, photoshop albeit not professionally. I am very keen on getting AMD again, after having Intel for about 10years and I am particulary interested in the new Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs, especially the likes of Ryzen 7 and 9. However is the performance uplift there ? I have a hard time finding any reviews showing what gain there could be going from these older Broadwell-E CPU's.
Well, it wouldn't be a huge upgrade for you at this time. I came form an i7 960 to the x570 3800x. Now that was an upgrade! https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6950X-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-3800X/3604vs4047
The new threadrippers are pretty stellar in all segments. I'd get that but then again it costs an arm.. or legs which ever limb u want to sacrifice
I think a Threadripper setup would be shooting sparrows with cannons for my daily use, eventhough they perform great. I was more thinking among the lines of a 3800/3900x.
For professional work like video editing that needs to be done faster, perhaps. For gaming it's overkill. 3700x will be more than enough.
nothing wrong with shooting sparrows with cannons , anyway ryzen 7 3700x, 3800x 9 3900x are all stellar performers too and great value
While userbenchmark is very useful; this above instance showcases its inaccuracy and lack of development in key areas. Known-good "professional benchmarks" or industry standards are still no substitute. (Not that anyone was implying such - that's just an interjecting of my own opinions) I've used it for a "baseline" approach- https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/download-inspectre.419057/page-7#post-5734478