My PC uses AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6 core. I game on a 1080 p screen. Do you guys think this CPU is enough for 1080p?


I have heard that nowadays 8 cores is a must. Do you agree with that?

How long will that CPU last me?

I have a Ryzen 1600 and play at 1440p.. You'll be fine. Higher resolutions are all about your graphics card anyway.

As far as I know single core performance is still the most important factor in terms of gaming. I wouldn't recommend getting a CPU with less than 4 threads, but most games probably don't require 8, unless you also plan to stream or do non-gaming tasks on your PC.

The next-gen consoles use eight cores and have power much closer to desktop devices, so future games will be built with that in mind. I recommend holding off from a upgrade for a couple years, then decide if you want to migrate to an AM5 motherboard or just go for a good AM4 CPU.

My Honda has a 2.4 liter naturally aspirated engine. Do you think it is enough for the autobahn?

It all depends on what you expect. Not at all, what matters is the performance, not the number of cores.

10 PRINT "Is performance enough? Y/N"
20 IF Y GOTO 100
30 IF N GOTO 150
59 WAIT 5s
60 play silly sounds as if thinking long and hard
61 WAIT 2s
100 PRINT "Be happy with what you have!"
150 PRINT "If you think an upgrade to a 3600X would make the difference, consider buying a used one from Themken."

Very sorry for the syntax mistakes. Let us just say that highscool was a long time ago and we were not taught a lot of programming and only BASIC and another, which name I forgot, and extremely little of it at that.

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How long it will last? Extremely hard to guess and the fact is made worse by how different needs people can have.

Graphics is more GPU than CPU, but a CPU can hold a GPU's potential back. This is called "bottle-necking". CPU shines most when calculations are needed on the fly. I play WoW and that game benefits more from a stronger CPU. Cities:Skylines and Civ VI are also games that are more CPU intensive.

Edit: you can check online if a CPU will bottleneck a GPU, but this can be confusing.

This site says my current CPU can handle an RTX 2060:

https://www.gpucheck.com/gpu/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060/intel-core-i5-4690-3-50ghz/

And this one says my current CPU is too weak:

https://pc-builds.com/calculator/Core_i5-4690/GeForce_RTX_2060/0A4137/

Nobody really knows, but it's not a bad chip. Viable life will depend on how developers react to the core count in the latest consoles (remember - the xbox 360 was a dual threaded 3 core chip, but there weren't many games at the time on PC that were optimised for 6 threads) and viable life will also depend on what games you play and whether the performance is acceptable to you.

Historically, I have run systems for five years before running a full upgrade on them, and I don't buy the absolute top end of components.

I have to repeat: what matters is performance, not core count. A single core could be faster than eight cores (try pitting one core of a 5600X against all eight cores of an UltraSPARC T1).

Consoles tend to run CPUs that are clocked slowed than desktop CPUs. IPC for the latest consoles is probably in the same ballpark as that 2600. Without benchmarks, it is hard to say what their relative performance is exactly, but I would expect the 2600 to hold up reasonably well.

You already asked this question a few weeks ago and even marked one of the responses as your accepted answer:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/how_long_till_i_have_to_upgrade_my_computer/post16

You have also received plenty of feedback about your CPU in the various threads you've posted about your graphics card too.

GPU is more for resolution. I'm sure that CPU is good for a while yet. Consoles have 8 cores but they work differently, they have OS demands different from Windows and PC games shift things to the GPU more in optimization.

You'll know when 6 cores aren't enough when you see more stutter in areas with a lot of NPCs and things like that, but it'll be a long time yet I bet. At least on normal settings, if you want ULTRA settings in games like Hitman 3 or whatever, you might have some slight troubles.

2.4 litre? That's a pretty beefy Honda.

I agree with you, but OP was so focussed on cores that I had to put that comparison in.

That being said, these days you probably have a minimum requirement of four threads for reasonable performance - I wouldn't bet on good gaming performance for a high IPC single core monster chip against a mid range 4x2 or 6x2 chip.