I’m currently using a 13900k and debating moving to a 9950x3d or 9950x3D2. I’ve seen a few benchmarks comparing shader compile and code compile times, but I’m more curious about general editor smoothness, multiplayer performance, load times, editor open times, and frame rate while PIE.
Has anyone recently done this sort of upgrade, what was your experience?
Thanks!
You won’t see any difference since you are already near the very top of consumer level CPUs. It would be a sideways move. A GPU upgrade helps a lot for complex projects. RAM might help depending on what else you keep in memory. Dedicating a NVMe to UE can help. But there is NO CPU at the consumer level that will improve your dev experience. Your choice is Threadripper or wait for sometime in 2027 for Nova Lake (52 cores) or Zen 6 (probably 32 cores)