CPU - Processor for Fusion

[phil.cookeBPK9N]

I'm only a 'Personal, not for Commercial use' Fusion user, making little things for myself and friends etc.  I am fairly new to all of this and I'm finding my desktop and laptops may be a bit on the slow / old side for a lot of the processing etc.  I'm looking at building my own desktop and was wondering about the performance of various chips.  I've read info that says Fusion is mainly concerned with the single  core performance and clockspeed is king, but on my current setup, it seems to be using all cores so I'm not sure if this is true.  My current desktop is only an i5-3470T with a GTX970 GPU and 24Gb RAM.

I'm considering an AMD Ryzen7 5800X (single core performance of 3445, overall performance of 27806) or maybe a Ryzen 5 8500G (single core performance of 3893, overall performance of 21685).  I'd not be upgrading my GPU but would be looking to go to 32Gb RAM.

Will the 5800X be faster than the 8500G or what else around that pricepoint should I be considering?

benchmark stats for some processors -

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5841vs6056vs4323vs5842vs3869/ 

Thanks for any comments and suggestions.

[phil.cookeBPK9N]

A bit of a bump to see if anyone has any ideas?

[a.laasW8M6T · Accepted solution]

Either of those options will be good processors

The Comment about single core performance is true for some aspects of Fusion

But especially in the Manufacture Workspace Fusion can and will use all the cores for toolpath calculation and stock simulation

not all scenarios will use multi cores though as there are times when the calculations cannot be paralleled 

Things like Blend/Flow/Geodesic etc set to spiral

also Collision avoidance 

GPU wise currently in Fusion the GPU isn't really utilized other than to render the Viewport.

32GB of ram will always help over 16GB, there been a quite a few times I've maxxed out my 16GB

On my work PC I just upgraded from an i7-11700 to an i9-13900 and saw a 27% decrease in calculation time on the first adaptive toolpath i recalculated

I do prefer AMD  Ryzens over the Intels though, the Higher base clock seems to offer a little more performance but the Intel CPus I have used are the base models

[phil.cookeBPK9N]

Thanks, if the manufacturer space can use multi thread, then I'll probably go for the 5800X processor. I haven't explored blend, flow, geodesic and most of my things Thanks, if the manufacturer space can use multi thread, then I'll probably go for the 5800X processor. I haven't explored blend, flow, geodesic and most of my things will be fairly simple. The only anti collision will be for my work holding fixings.