Trickson,
From my vantage point, by making the statement, "
That is to say I spent 600 bucks for a more modern system that runs at the same "pace" as the old one! ", what I actually see you trying to get across ( and I totally understand ) is, that for all the wattage consumption and CPU and graphics horsepower that was inherent in a 2009-ish build containing a 95 watt LGA 775 Intel Q9560 ( nearly TOP of the line for that time ) and an AMD 5870, your
apparent performance hasn't jumped all that much compared with a 65 watt AM4 AMD Ryzen 1300x paired with a GTX 1050. At first glance, I would agree...
until I ran the numbers.
I'll break it down for you:
In 2009, Intel's best CPU paired with AMD's best graphics card would get you excellent frame rates on all the games of that time. They were coded and designed at a certain level and with either DX 9.0c or DX 10, and it took hardware of a certain level to make them play well. Anyone remember the saying, "
Yeah, but can it play Crysis?" ? I do.
Now you have
budget level hardware and you're still getting the same apparent performance that you once got from a $530 Intel Q9650 and a $500 AMD 5870...only you've spent far less less money. Bang-for-buck, you're doing
at least as good as you did with approximately $1,500 of total hardware ( motherboard, RAM, CPU and graphics card ) in 2009 dollars ( which is worth $1,700 now )...and you've only spent $600 to get it
. BUT, look at the pictures you posted again. What do you see? Even with the old HD 5870 as a graphics card, your score on Cinebench 15 is almost
doubled. The past 9 years has given the designers of hardware time to improve in so many ways...in automotive terms, you have a new 8 cylinder under the hood that can actually far outpace the 8 cylinder you once had...for a lot less money. AND, they're now making 16 cylinder engines that can leave your old 8 cylinder in the dust for the same price you once paid.
All you have to do now to take advantage of the technological leap, is to pair the eminently more powerful and efficient Ryzen 1300X, with a graphics card that can take advantage of it. Given Ryzen's architecture, it should be able to push at least a GTX 1070 without even breaking a sweat, IMO. I haven't see the single-threaded performance, but I'm sure that with it's efficiency and processing power, it far outstrips the Q9650 ( which would choke on a 1070 even at 1080p in today's games, I imagine ).
Try running Cinebench 15 with the new processor
and new graphics card...I bet you have even better results.