where are you getting this info from? comparing i9 to ryzen 5 haha
Please do some groundwork to know more about these chips and we will discuss. You sound like me when I was n00b, would post random stuff just to get into an argument and get put in right place.
I'm really amazed how people are thinking and believing a 6 core CPU (which is lower than current gen consoles) in 2021 is sufficient for gaming and productivity tasks and can be compared with a flagship intel product.
Bruh 2017 is calling and asking it's i7-8700K back. A 6 core CPU was prime back in 2017 and you could have been enjoying it since then until now 3+ years. Buying a 6 core CPU in 2021 for inflated prices is ridiculously stupid. It's going to get hammered hard and become a bottleneck for AAA games within 2 years.
It's all the fault of stupid benchmarks and bar graphs. They show it high but don't really show the CPU usage which is what matters for future-proofing. Gamers really take pride in showing of their FPS bar bigger than someone else even if it is for a HOT minute and CPU is 80%+. Anyways enough rant.
Good luck for the sale to the OP, decent price for a chip that will last 3 years easy.
You do have a very valid point. Inflated prices of AMD Zen 3 chips. The 5600x should cost 5k less and it very well would fall to sub 25k prices. The very reason why AMD has priced these higher is because these chips are matching and beating Intel's chips in same price range. Thanks to Zen 3 superior gaming performance, they are in ridiculously high demand.
In current scenario (direct fight between 5600X and 9900K), we have games that support 8 core CPUs and yet, the 6-core 5600X matches and even beats (in some cases) the Core i9 9900K while constantly taking less power and staying cooler.
We cannot just say that more cores are better. After all, Zen is to Core what Core was to Athlon 64 X2. AMD has negated Intel's higher core count with faster IPC and single core performance (which was exactly what made Intel's Core architecture the king for a decade). To counter Intel's CPU at a price point, AMD can easily use smaller chiplets and lower cores to match and out perform while drawing less power and dissipating less heat.
Man, I love these CPU wars.
Gaming till end of 2022:
This is time when a 6 core 5600x will continue to match or even beat (when we see things like DirectStorage, RTX IO, more optimized games and software for Zen 3 architecture) 9900k in specific games and workloads. As Intel is moving to new architecture in 2022, all developers will start targeting that architecture from next year. There is nothing left in Intel's 14nm+++++++++++++ and core architecture to squeeze out and Rocket Lake is the best example. Developers would not even care about a 3-4 year old 9900k. Heck, they do not care about this today. What developers are optimizing right now is getting more performance out of Zen 3 architecture and getting more performance out of RTX, out of SSDs.
Now, the trump card for 5600X is its efficiency and per core performance. This is a 65W chip while 9900K is a 95W chip. While the 5600x is matching the i9 9900 in gaming performance, it does that while generating less heat and while taking less power. This makes the 5600x better in performance per rupee/dollar. It offers better returns over a period of 2 years. If you do not believe, go through countless gaming uploads where the performance of 5600x is compared to that of 9900k. We are seeing 3200MHz and 3600MHz DDR4 RAMs being norm these days and AMD can get more out higher speed RAMs than Intel, thanks to Infinity fabric and thanks to Zen 3 being newer architecture. Not to forget that AMD Zen loves high speed RAM and if RAM speed can match infinity fabric speed, you will gain very good performance.
You do not even have to think of overclocking 5600X like hell to get more performance. I am not really a fan of overclocking midrange CPUs for little more fps when you get see mind blowing fps on higher end CPUs/cards, making your midrange CPU look puny.
From end of 2022:
Intel is moving to completely new architecture. AMD is moving to AM5 next year. Both sides will leverage DDR5 RAM and all current DDR4 systems will be considered old and offer low value in used PC market. So, when one puts these two on sale, which one will get better money back? 5600x will still be under warranty, 9900 by then would be a 4 year old veteran without any warranty. Intel buyers will most probably look for 10th gen and 11th gen chips for low price as they will be under warranty by then and are better than the 9900K. The 5600x, on the other hand, is based on Zen 3 and this will not be looked at as 'very old', as, even at the end of 2022 can leverage majority of existing technologies.
My point being:
We are going to see huge landscape shift in 2022 so better get the configuration that gives desired performance, better on wallet and offers better resale value when you are selling it in 2022 or 2023. If the OP wants to sell the 9900k, 25k is not the right price. he should be able to show that the difference between price to buy 5600x rig and one based on his 9900k is so much that it offers better returns. Like I said, this is the bad time to be in Intel's camp. I really hope Intel pulls a rabbit out of the bag in 2022 and make CPU market more competitive. Until then, a Ryzen will offer better long term performance and resale value than Intel's core chips.
