AM4 or AM5?

Well, since they don’t make CPUs for AM4 anymore, get the best CPU you can for an AM4 socket. The AM5 socket won’t be phased out until, at least, late next year, so it has more upgrade potential.

it is slighlty better than a 5800x3d in gaming but with the added cost of ram and new mobo, i d say its not worth it

Well give how much new ddr5 ram and mobo would cost i would say its worth it if you are already on am4.

Originally released April 2022 for the AM4 socket. You must be referring to the re-release for some anniversary thing.

If you don't wanna switch to am5 your best and only option is ryzen 5800x3d for 350$.

DDR5 ram and mobo would be more expensive than that

After you sell your 9600x you’re only talking $200ish and you keep your current ram.

That's wrong they just re released the Ryzen 7 5800x3D.

it’s alright actually.

I'm perfectly happy with my Ryzen 5900X on a B350 chipset motherboard with a Radeon RX 7900 GRE. I feel no itch to upgrade whatsoever.

I think because of the necessary financial investment, a deliberate switch to AM5 should be centered on achieving generational uplift with AMD-backed socket longevity through 2029ish rather than a partial upgrade that will encounter earlier CPU bottlenecking again, especially if you tend towards more CPU-bound activities. Even after considering recouped costs from selling your AM4 components upon upgrading to AM5, you're going to be further in the hole having to get an AM5 mobo and RAM. I'd say if you do end up switching to AM5, that it'd be worth seeing how the desktop-grade Zen 6 release pans out since that should be late this year/early 2027 at the latest. Zen 6 will have more optimized architecture, faster clocks, and more cores/price than your current chips, all of which are relevant to overcoming your current CPU bottlenecks. XMP/EXPO is mostly plug-and-play now, and I don't know if you're comfortable manually overclocking RAM or not; but also take into consideration the non-X3D chips you have on-hand are performance-bound by your RAM speed/timings to a measurable extent. We don't know the memory sweet spots for Zen 6 yet, but it's probably 85%+ going to be faster than DDR5-6000, which I'd argue is the current price/performance optimal buy (let's say at CL36) for Zen 5 at current inflated prices. Unless you also have non-gaming productivity needs that directly benefit from higher CPU clocks and RAM bandwidth, you will probably notice more overall gaming performance and performance/price switching to an X3D configuration with cost-conscious RAM given how inflated RAM prices are compared to how (relatively) reasonable CPU prices have been. The 9600X is a good CPU, but the 96MB L3 cache on 5800X3Ds and newer is the primary substantial CPU upgrade to gaming performance currently available. A 5800X3D will undoubtedly be superior to your 5600X, but you've indicated $350ish is already pricey. This route will be cheaper than any AM5 pathway even in the most cost-efficient AM5 upgrade route of sticking with your 9600X and recouping costs from reselling your AM4 components. But the uplift will be smaller and you'll encounter CPU bottlenecking again earlier down the line. I expect Zen 5 prices to drop on Zen 6 release, and Zen 6 CPU/AM5 mobo prices to trend stable over time, but DDR5 will remain inflated with high likelihood of further volatility for the foreseeable future. I don't think Zen 4 will drop much further than the $320-$380ish we're currently seeing with the 7700X3D/7800X3D, as another option to consider if you want AM5/DDR5 uplift and longetivity but are willing to trade peak generational potential for proven performance at the lowest price. Given that 5800X3Ds are going for ~$350ish as well, I'd argue that if you can budget for the AM5 supporting components upgrade, a 7700X3D/7800X3D is the best price/performance/longetivity move you can make today if the full generational uplift approach to Zen 6 is unpalatable. Are you experiencing just CPU-bound FPS bottlenecks, or are there other performance bottlenecks like turn time processing or frequent microstuttering? X3D chips are more consistent with reducing microstutter frequency since they're less dependent on offloading to RAM. Do you run a lot of background programs that saturate your excess cores? Do you have non-gaming productivity needs? And how much more overhead does your monitor have between current achieved FPS and max refresh rate? Do you have other competing near- or mid-term upgrade priorities like your 3070, your monitor, or increasing RAM capacity above 32GB? 8GB VRAM may become increasingly limiting depending on the types of games you foresee picking up in the future, especially if you're also contemplating any future move from 1080p to 1440p or 1440p to 2160p. I apologize for this probably generating more questions than answers.

Do you know how much DDR5 memory costs?

Newegg does have a 7700x3d + Asus tuf b650e + 16gb 6000mhz ram + Cooler master 240 AIO for $550 right now. It gets you onto am5 and an x3d chip.

Your options are a 350 to 400 dollar 5800x3d, or buy ddr5 ram and mobo.

9600x is better than 5800x3d. Sell your am4 components to get the RAM. I've seen kits of 32gb for $300. You can even start with a single stick of 16gb and add another one later. AM5 will be supported til at least 2030.

A new motherboard is RAM is going to cost you quite a bit. Having this new CPU is not going to drastically change anything, performance wise. You'd get a much bigger leap in performance if you kept your current hardware and got a new graphics card.

I just went from a 5600x to a 9600x got motherboard and cpu on sale, ram $140 for 16gb local. All that for 13 more fps at 1440p with a 9070xt used cyberpunk to benchmark. Debating on going back to 5600x. If i was on 1080p I bet the jump would be a lot more. But GPU is the limit at 1440p and 4k.

I just went all in on AM4 the past 48 hours. Upgraded from 5600X to 5800X3D (it was worth it, esp with Forza Horizon 6 when I realized my GPU Usage was only 1.1 before. Now it's 90.) Upgraded my RAM from 16GB DDR4 CL16 3200MHz to 32GB DDR4 CL16 3200MHz (Trident Z Neo) Upgraded my RTX 3080 Ti to RTX 5080 I've decided to hunker down and just give my rig a lifecycle update until AM6 and the prices of parts come down. The upgrade in CPU from 5600X to 5800X3D alone was worth it paired with the RTX 5080 on 4K on Extreme with just TAA. I picked up an additional 18-20 frames.

Keep the Ryzen 5 9600X

Resell it. Also sell the 3070 and use the money from both sales to get a better GPU, maybe a 9060xt 16gb or 5070 or sth like that