Should I upgrade i5 4460 to Ryzen 5 1600?

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ales.corrales

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Hi!
I'm planning to upgrade my current i5 4460 to a Ryzen 5 1600. My plan is to run games at ultra 1080p 60fps. Downside is I also would have to upgrade my Mobo and Ram, wich would end up at a total cost of roughly 378 euros (448 dollars).

That is a pretty high amount of money for me as I don't have stable income, just savings (still in college), but I could consider spending it if the upgrade will bring a very noticeable change of performance at games, stability and higher fps overall.
I'm not really that much interested on the multitasking or video processing aspects of the CPU, just the raw increase of gaming performance it makes.

Do you think it's worth it or should I stick by my current CPU and make a bigger update in a year or so?
 
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In some titles, the added cores/threads of the Ryzen chip may be beneficial, but even a Haswell-era i5 has a higher IPC/single core performance, which is still pretty relevant in games.

For the near 400EUR investment, I wouldn't suggest it's worth the upgrade (based on the info so far).

What GPU do you have currently? For Ultra settings, 1080p gaming, some of that "upgrade" budget may be better spent on a new GPU, depending on what you have currently.
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In some titles, the added cores/threads of the Ryzen chip may be beneficial, but even a Haswell-era i5 has a higher IPC/single core performance, which is still pretty relevant in games.

For the near 400EUR investment, I wouldn't suggest it's worth the upgrade (based on the info so far).

What GPU do you have currently? For Ultra settings, 1080p gaming, some of that "upgrade" budget may be better spent on a new GPU, depending on what you have currently.
 
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ales.corrales

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Sorry I didn't mention the rest of the rig, as for the GPU I have a GTX 1060 6GB, I might upgrade to a GTX 1060 8gb if I can find one at 500-520 euros since I think the i5 4460 won't bottleneck it much.
 
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There isn't a GTX 1060 8gb. Did you mean GTX 1080? I wouldn't recommend anything higher than GTX 1070 with your CPU and the GTX 1060 seems like a good pairing with your current CPU. See my thread about which CPU pairs with which GPU if you're thinking of upgrading. It's a good basic outline of which CPU you should go with for each GPU you're considering. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3554535/cpu-bottleneck-gpu.html
 
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ales.corrales

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Very sorry, I didn't notice the mistake, I meant I currently have the GTX 1060 6Gb, thank you!
 
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