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I am helping my brother build a budget computer for his studies as animator.
Right now the budget is very low, so I opted to buy a good CPU to futureproof any of his needs and buy a better graphics card in future upgrade.
I did some research and I came up with the following processors:
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Which do you think is the most suitable for this build.
AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600
AMD Ryzen™ 7 2700X
both CPU's are on the same socket, the ryzen 7 2700X is the better based on more cores and higher frequencies, and higher L1 and L2 cache. Any software that is cpu based will run faster on the r7-2700x compared to the r5-3600. There is basically no price difference. Total Dissipated Power of 65 watt versus 105 watt is not a deciding factor... if anything the higher wattage of the r7 further proves it can do more work that the r5.
I would suggest you to go for AMD Ryzen 5 3600
=> Ryzen 5 3600 is 3rd generation of AMD's processors and Ryzen 7 2700X is second generation.
=> Ryzen 5 3600 is based on latest 7nm processor and Ryzen 7 2700X is based on 12nm
=> Ryzen 5 3600 is much more recent than Ryzen 7 2700X
=> Ryzen 5 3600 requires 65W and Ryzen 7 2700X requires 105W to operate
You can visit the link below to check the best review and comparison of both processors
I would recommend the Ryzen 5 3600 for these reasons:
The 3600 has faster single core performance, and almost matches the multi core performance of the Ryzen 7 2700X because of that. The Ryzen 7 2700X does a little better in CPU rendering benchmarks but you should be using a GPU for rendering anyways. That would make this small advantage irrelevant.
The CPU needs only 65W, which is a ~40% power reduction over the 2700X.
That means the included CPU cooler will be adequate, and the system will not be as noisy.
The 3600 has an improved architecture that provides several advantages over the 2700X:
PCIe 4.0 Support
Infinity Fabric 2 - The DDR frequency no longer determines the CPU's internal fabric speed. Pairing a 2700X with cheap DDR4 RAM will have a greater consequence on overall performance than a 3600 with the same RAM would.
Significantly improved AVX2 capabilties.
This instruction set is used in a lot of number-crunching applications, including video encoding. (Which an animator will be doing every time they export a video!)
My recommendation is based on both of these CPUs being the same price though. They are close enough in performance that whichever is less expensive is probably the better value.
