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This may be the lowest price but it's been within $10 of it intermittently for months. (My buy price: $150.)
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The hidden greatness of this chip is its low power consumption. Builders will typically spend many times the system cost on electricity over the equipment's life.
The 5700G will cut those costs down while providing very respectable performance.
Been watching a few mITX boards for price drops, would like to build a system with this CPU and powered by a 200w power brick (fanless / noiseless). Maybe by summer.
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I've been looking for a while at the AMD Ryzen™ 5 4600G, 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor for $100, and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 6-Core 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor for $123 and now the 5700G.
I don't yet have a MB to fit, but which processor including the 5700G in this thread would be the best bang for the buck or for the performance? Would I be able to tell the difference between those three? I'm not a gamer, just using the rig for photo and video editing and processing, but some of the processing can be somewhat intense. I'm thinking the processor should be the first choice and then I'll find an affordable MB to fit the budget.
Thanks to all in advance.
Unless you are going to pair this with a decent Nvidia GPU, youd be better off getting an Intel CPU for QuickSync hardware acceleration, which most video editing applications can take advantage of.
If you can spend a bit more, the current best (on a budget) video editing CPU is the i5-13500, which is $237 at Newegg https://www.newegg.com/intel-core...6819118429 . 14 cores, Quicksync with 2 media codec engines. It absolutely destroys the 5700g in nearly everything.
This makes for a decent build for a kid who likes to play Roblox or Minecraft, and maybe does some other light gaming. Forza is definitely playable on lower settings. Even ran MSFS 2020 at 720p/low and it was workable.
Got the 5600G version during the Great GPU Shortage and it worked well. FWIW, I'm going to give my kid my 5600X + some TBD GPU < $300 (I just upgraded to the 5800X3D), then repurpose the 5600G to some miniITX build and hook it up to my TV or something (suggestions welcome).
I'm in a similar situation; basically upgraded my main PC, and by waterfall effect ended up with an extra 5600G along with a handful of other components
Tbh itd be a waste to stick the 5600G in a HTPC. I plan to build a NAS / Plex server, store our shared family photos, and perhaps make a network wide VPN access point.
5600G is low TDP, and the igpu is totally capable of transcoding. Even as a NAS, it's overkill but still cheaper than buying a Synology.
Since you aren't going to have a high end GPU to offload video processing to, I would get one with the most cores as possible for video rendering. 5700G has 8 cores/16 threads, so that's my vote over the 6 core chips.
The iGPU on these AMD G chips can support limited offload, but it's a low end GPU. So the end results is that it's not much faster than just using the CPU cores. And not as many things support Radeon or VCE offload.
I have 3700x. I do videos photos audio. I game too. Is it worth upgrading to 5700x?
I have 3700x. I do videos photos audio. I game too. Is it worth upgrading to 5700x?
Probably won't notice a real world difference for photo and video editing, but 5700x will be 5-10% faster.
For games, maybe 15-20% more fps depending on how good your GPU is. But will you notice? Does 60 vs 70fps or 100 vs 120fps feel that different to you? It doesn't to me.
I'm in a similar situation; basically upgraded my main PC, and by waterfall effect ended up with an extra 5600G along with a handful of other components
Tbh itd be a waste to stick the 5600G in a HTPC. I plan to build a NAS / Plex server, store our shared family photos, and perhaps make a network wide VPN access point.
5600G is low TDP, and the igpu is totally capable of transcoding. Even as a NAS, it's overkill but still cheaper than buying a Synology.
I have a 5600G running Openmediavault (NAS). Transcoding is pointless local streaming, any decent front end player supports direct play (ipad/apple tv/phones does the decoding like just streaming a file off SMB shares). Plex and Infuse (apple only) do direct play reliably. Infuse can use the Plex/Emby/Jellyfin back end media server (docker container run on the NAS) seamlessly. 90GB untouched 4K video? No problem
This may be the lowest price but it's been within $10 of it intermittently for months. (My buy price: $150.)
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The hidden greatness of this chip is its low power consumption. Builders will typically spend many times the system cost on electricity over the equipment's life.
The 5700G will cut those costs down while providing very respectable performance.
Been watching a few mITX boards for price drops, would like to build a system with this CPU and powered by a 200w power brick (fanless / noiseless). Maybe by summer.
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I will hold off too. But I have a question. If I plan to buy gpu.. I'd there any electricity adantage in getting 5700g + gpu? Or if I'm 100% depend on like 6750xt will that raise the bill?
Im seeing if depending on an onboard gpu (as an alternative for not demanding games) helps the bill at a slower cpu (ie 5700g + gpu vs 5700x + gpu). Or will the separate gpu only use the wattage sufficient needed to run the game or is it binary (on-off at constant usage).
I bought this for $370 in 8/2021 when it first came out and when GPU prices were insane. It plays older games fine at 1080p. GTA V runs well. From a certain perspective, it's not nearly as good a deal as one can pick up something like a used RX 580 insanely cheap ($75) on Aliexpress but probably still has its place for some people. If you're not doing any gaming I'd get an AM5 platform due to the basic iGPU.
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For the vast majority of people this will make almost no difference though.
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This may be the lowest price but it's been within $10 of it intermittently for months. (My buy price: $150.)
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The hidden greatness of this chip is its low power consumption. Builders will typically spend many times the system cost on electricity over the equipment's life.
The 5700G will cut those costs down while providing very respectable performance.
Been watching a few mITX boards for price drops, would like to build a system with this CPU and powered by a 200w power brick (fanless / noiseless). Maybe by summer.
.
I've been looking for a while at the AMD Ryzen™ 5 4600G, 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor for $100, and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 6-Core 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor for $123 and now the 5700G.
I don't yet have a MB to fit, but which processor including the 5700G in this thread would be the best bang for the buck or for the performance? Would I be able to tell the difference between those three? I'm not a gamer, just using the rig for photo and video editing and processing, but some of the processing can be somewhat intense. I'm thinking the processor should be the first choice and then I'll find an affordable MB to fit the budget.
Thanks to all in advance.
If you can spend a bit more, the current best (on a budget) video editing CPU is the i5-13500, which is $237 at Newegg https://www.newegg.com/intel-core...68191184
Got the 5600G version during the Great GPU Shortage and it worked well. FWIW, I'm going to give my kid my 5600X + some TBD GPU < $300 (I just upgraded to the 5800X3D), then repurpose the 5600G to some miniITX build and hook it up to my TV or something (suggestions welcome).
Tbh itd be a waste to stick the 5600G in a HTPC. I plan to build a NAS / Plex server, store our shared family photos, and perhaps make a network wide VPN access point.
5600G is low TDP, and the igpu is totally capable of transcoding. Even as a NAS, it's overkill but still cheaper than buying a Synology.
The iGPU on these AMD G chips can support limited offload, but it's a low end GPU. So the end results is that it's not much faster than just using the CPU cores. And not as many things support Radeon or VCE offload.
For games, maybe 15-20% more fps depending on how good your GPU is. But will you notice? Does 60 vs 70fps or 100 vs 120fps feel that different to you? It doesn't to me.
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So $4.30 cheaper, fine. Picky, picky.
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Tbh itd be a waste to stick the 5600G in a HTPC. I plan to build a NAS / Plex server, store our shared family photos, and perhaps make a network wide VPN access point.
5600G is low TDP, and the igpu is totally capable of transcoding. Even as a NAS, it's overkill but still cheaper than buying a Synology.
This may be the lowest price but it's been within $10 of it intermittently for months. (My buy price: $150.)
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The hidden greatness of this chip is its low power consumption. Builders will typically spend many times the system cost on electricity over the equipment's life.
The 5700G will cut those costs down while providing very respectable performance.
Been watching a few mITX boards for price drops, would like to build a system with this CPU and powered by a 200w power brick (fanless / noiseless). Maybe by summer.
.
Im seeing if depending on an onboard gpu (as an alternative for not demanding games) helps the bill at a slower cpu (ie 5700g + gpu vs 5700x + gpu). Or will the separate gpu only use the wattage sufficient needed to run the game or is it binary (on-off at constant usage).
There is no reason to get this if you are getting a separate GPU.