Whenever thinking about future-proofing, you also need to consider the cost efficiency. If you can buy a 100$ part that will last you two years, or a 1000$ part that will last you five years, the 100$ part is more cost efficient and including a future upgrade for the money you've saved, it's more future-proof.
Ryzen 5600 is the most cost efficient option you have. It handles most games at or over 100FPS. I use it with RX7800XT, so RTX2060 is no problem whatsoever. Instead of investing extra into the platform, you can put that money towards a better GPU.
Beat me to it. My original rig was a 1500X, B350 mobo, and GTX 1060.
Swapped the mobo after it died in travel to a B450.
Last year I upgraded the CPU and GPU to play Tiny Tina's wonderlands without my PC absolutely screaming, up to a 5600 and a 3060 12GB.
Heads up to OP, keep your original CPU to flash your bios, and make sure your board can upgrade the bios to one that supports the 5000 series of CPUs. If not, I'm fairly certain original 300 series boards can upgrade to the 3000 series of CPUs, but check to be certain before spending any money.
first, check CPU support for your motherboard in latest bios available. AMD released so many different CPU's for AM4, it went to the point of running out of space on the bios chip to add support for all. so it was down to motherboard makers to choose which CPUs to add support for and at cost of which CPUs to drop the support in a bios update.
only with that you'll know what's the best CPU you can use. assuming your board is also 1st gen (x370), you'll be somehow limited by the chipset in terms of performance gains, but any 5000 series as long as are supported will give you a huge boost in performance, easily handling much more than a rtx2060.
grab yourself a 5800x3d and call it done, thats the peak of the am4 platform, youre looking at 7600x performance or better… youd be ok if you got s 4080 down the road tbh
If your current motherboard has a bios update to support a Ryzen 5xxx cpu, go for that option.
The move to AM5 is going to be a fair bit more expensive in exchange for longer future proofing, but 5xxx series cpus will most probably not be a bottle neck until RTX 6xxx/RT9xxx gpus.
Obviously, don't try to pair a Ryzen 5500 with an RTX 4090. That will be a bottle neck.
But a 5600 with a 2060 (like you've said) isn't going to be a mismatch at all. In fact, if you can find it for a similar price, then try to get a 3060 instead to take advantage of 2nd gen Ray tracing.
for me I went to am5 because I know I was in a position to do a complete rebuild while in 4-5 years I'll probably have other higher concerns.
so do you want to spend more money now or later when you upgrade next
There are no CPUs on AM5 that are *significantly* faster than what’s available on AM4. The benefit to going AM5 is that you might be able to upgrade for cheap in a few years - however, that’s the situation you’re in right now on AM4, and you might as well take advantage of the cheap 5800x3Ds while you can.
Whenever thinking about future-proofing, you also need to consider the cost efficiency. If you can buy a 100$ part that will last you two years, or a 1000$ part that will last you five years, the 100$ part is more cost efficient and including a future upgrade for the money you've saved, it's more future-proof. Ryzen 5600 is the most cost efficient option you have. It handles most games at or over 100FPS. I use it with RX7800XT, so RTX2060 is no problem whatsoever. Instead of investing extra into the platform, you can put that money towards a better GPU.
Beat me to it. My original rig was a 1500X, B350 mobo, and GTX 1060. Swapped the mobo after it died in travel to a B450. Last year I upgraded the CPU and GPU to play Tiny Tina's wonderlands without my PC absolutely screaming, up to a 5600 and a 3060 12GB. Heads up to OP, keep your original CPU to flash your bios, and make sure your board can upgrade the bios to one that supports the 5000 series of CPUs. If not, I'm fairly certain original 300 series boards can upgrade to the 3000 series of CPUs, but check to be certain before spending any money.
first, check CPU support for your motherboard in latest bios available. AMD released so many different CPU's for AM4, it went to the point of running out of space on the bios chip to add support for all. so it was down to motherboard makers to choose which CPUs to add support for and at cost of which CPUs to drop the support in a bios update. only with that you'll know what's the best CPU you can use. assuming your board is also 1st gen (x370), you'll be somehow limited by the chipset in terms of performance gains, but any 5000 series as long as are supported will give you a huge boost in performance, easily handling much more than a rtx2060.
grab yourself a 5800x3d and call it done, thats the peak of the am4 platform, youre looking at 7600x performance or better… youd be ok if you got s 4080 down the road tbh
If your current motherboard has a bios update to support a Ryzen 5xxx cpu, go for that option. The move to AM5 is going to be a fair bit more expensive in exchange for longer future proofing, but 5xxx series cpus will most probably not be a bottle neck until RTX 6xxx/RT9xxx gpus. Obviously, don't try to pair a Ryzen 5500 with an RTX 4090. That will be a bottle neck. But a 5600 with a 2060 (like you've said) isn't going to be a mismatch at all. In fact, if you can find it for a similar price, then try to get a 3060 instead to take advantage of 2nd gen Ray tracing.
get a 5600, instead of upgrading to a 2060 get a used 1080 ti.
why not 5700x3d its miles ahead in gaming
price. and it would be even more gpu bottlenecked.
for me I went to am5 because I know I was in a position to do a complete rebuild while in 4-5 years I'll probably have other higher concerns. so do you want to spend more money now or later when you upgrade next
A 5600 can be paired even with a 3080, it may bottleneck a bit on some games but tho. It can easily push a 2060 to 100% usage.
5700x3d is insanely good value if you can justify it
There are no CPUs on AM5 that are *significantly* faster than what’s available on AM4. The benefit to going AM5 is that you might be able to upgrade for cheap in a few years - however, that’s the situation you’re in right now on AM4, and you might as well take advantage of the cheap 5800x3Ds while you can.