I wonder if it'd be worth doing the upgrade from a Xeon 1231v3 (basically an i7-4770) to either the upcoming Ryzen 3700 or 3700x? (My other specs are 16 GB RAM and GTX 1070. The 1070 will eventually be the next upgrade.)
I'm always really hesitant to upgrade CPUs since they last so long, and the Xeon is still holding its own in most games (Battlefield V being a notable exception), but goddamn the Ryzen 3000 series' pricing and specs are insane.
Here was the official announcement:
If you want
Battlefield V to run smoothly, yes, that will be an excellent upgrade. The best values here are the
R7-3700X (overall) and
R5-3600 (pure gaming). Notice the lower TDP ranges,
@Chubz. We'll have to wait to see if AMD is as serious with their stock cooling solutions as they have been with the first two generations of Ryzen, but expect these to be the better values, especially if you're comfortable overclocking. Hell, they might even prove better values if you don't. The R7-3800X only has a +100 MHz turbo advantage over the R7-3700X, despite the +300MHz base clock, so we'll have to wait to see how the turbos across all cores differ. It's strange to see that little frequency gained in the peak turbo when the chip nearly doubles the power draw.
Otherwise, these appear positioned to assume the mantle the R3-1200, R5-1600, R7-1700 from the first gen or the R5-2600 & R7-2700 from the second gen. They will have more headroom because they aren't as aggressively clocked out-of-the-box from the factory. They will probably come with slightly inferior stock coolers.
Expect the R7-3700X to crush the R7-2700X at stock frequencies (4.4 GHz peak turbo vs. 4.3 GHz peak turbo, and +15% boasted IPC, with the same cores/threads). Now compare the Xeon E3-1231v3 vs. R7-2700X:
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-4770-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-2700X/1978vs3958
17% faster single core score, and
34% faster quad core score despite that the Xeon isn't a dual core or lesser chip. Those are huge advantages already with the focus on gaming.
Don't overlook that you'll also be able to upgrade to DDR4 RAM with the CPU upgrade.
So, yes, the R5-3600 ($199) or R7-3700X ($329) will both be worthwhile upgrades to your current CPU.