Ryzen 7 5600 or 5800x for fast lightroom and photoshop editing?

[haring]

Do you recommend Ryzen 7 5600 or 5800x for fast lightroom and photoshop editing? Is there a difference between these 2 processors? I see all the data on them but I am not sure it makes a huge difference when you are editing....

[Doug Fisher]

In the Photoshop test by the well-regarded Puget System testing, the 5800x was 7.3% faster (1195 vs 1114).  Is that worth $125 more in price?  Only you can answer that regarding Photoshop.  If you are doing video processing too, the extra two cores and threads might be even more beneficial.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Photoshop-AMD-Ryzen-5000-Series-CPU-performance-1956/

Doug

[John Hollenberg]

More recent Photoshop test from Puget Systems:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Photoshop-12th-Gen-Intel-Core-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5000-Series-2245/

Most recent Lightroom Classic test from Puget:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Lightroom-Classic-12th-Gen-Intel-Core-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5000-Series-2246/

[MattBurt]

I recently did a refresh on my PC and upgraded the CPU from a Ryzen 7 2700 to a Ryzen 7 5800x. I went back and forth on the decision between a Ryzen 5 5600 and Ryzen 7 5800x. The benefit of the 5600 being cost and wattage. It's only rated at 65 Watts while the 5800x is 105 Watts. So the higher wattage will cost more to run and generate more heat.

All that being considered I went for the 5800x just to get better performance and two more cores. I got an aftermarket cooler too that is pretty quiet but still audible. With the lesser CPU I might have been able to make it quieter.

As time goes on software will make better use of multiple cores so I'm hoping the gap will widen between the two options but time will tell.

[simon.garrett@iee.org]

The benefit of the 5600 being cost and wattage. It's only rated at 65 Watts while the 5800x is 105 Watts. So the higher wattage will cost more to run and generate more heat.

Yes, but most of the time the processor won't be using 105W.  I have a 3900X, and if I run something like the Primes Torture Test I can get it humming at over 100W, but for most tasks it's running at less than 20W.  In Lightroom it peaks at perhaps 70W (LR rarely uses all cores) but most of the time browsing through images or editing it's using less than 30W, often less than 20W.  I wouldn't count on the 5800X contributing much room heating. 

[haring]

I got Ryzen 7. Editing both wedding photos and wedding videos is super fast!!!! Happpppyyyy!!!