Is it worth it to upgrade to Ryzen from an i5-6500?

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Hey guys, i just built myself an i5 6500 build coupled with an rx 480 during the first week of january. I was warned before about Ryzen and the possibility of AMD crippling intel but judging from the past i ignored it and went on with the build. Now from the looks of it Ryzen seems to be a big deal offering a higher core and thread count than intel at a lower or similar price point. My question to the community is, is it advisable to upgrade from an i5 6500 to a Ryzen 1400X (4 core 8 thread) this year going forward, my primary use out of my i5 is gaming and programming/development, how long would it take for mainstream games to actually start taking advantage of more cores and threads over a conventional quad core chip, will i be able to squeeze 3 years out of this chip without bottlenecking a vega gpu or newer gpus down the road, i prefer to game at 1080p 60fps ?
 
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Let's just assume for a moment that Ryzen is even better than Kaby Lake. Would you benefit from Ryzen at 1080p 60fps? The answer is No. Absolutely not. Why? That's because your current hardware is already capable of delivering the experience you want so there is no need to upgrade. A GTX 1070 or better could be bottlenecked a bit by the Core i5 6500 at 1080p in a lot of games but that's true of just about any processor. If all you want is 1080p 60fps it's not going to matter anyway because the Core i5 6500 is more than capable of giving you at least 60 fps when paired with a good graphics card. As long as you have a decent quad core CPU, which you have, it's the GPU that matters most in gaming. And as far as your graphics card goes...
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Let's just assume for a moment that Ryzen is even better than Kaby Lake. Would you benefit from Ryzen at 1080p 60fps? The answer is No. Absolutely not. Why? That's because your current hardware is already capable of delivering the experience you want so there is no need to upgrade. A GTX 1070 or better could be bottlenecked a bit by the Core i5 6500 at 1080p in a lot of games but that's true of just about any processor. If all you want is 1080p 60fps it's not going to matter anyway because the Core i5 6500 is more than capable of giving you at least 60 fps when paired with a good graphics card. As long as you have a decent quad core CPU, which you have, it's the GPU that matters most in gaming. And as far as your graphics card goes you're good at 1080p 60 fps. No need to upgrade that yet either.
 
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Look at only those 4, I mean 8, I mean 16 threads being used.

Games are using more and more cores.

Cinebench-R15-Single-Threaded.png


Look at the single thread intel crushing, well, kind of in the lead.


Lvoe you speculation on something that hasn't been benchmarked full yet.
 
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