Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

I'm not really much of a hardware guy anymore so I'm a bit lost and was just after some help deciding on some hardware upgrades. I'm only really looking to play Paper Mario Thousand Year Door with the (fantastic!) upgraded texture pack at 1080p as well as some other modern games. I'm probably going to keep my Radeon RX 580 graphics card for now and upgrade it further down the track. I've narrowed it down to either:
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER Motherboard and Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB RAM

or

AMD Ryzen 5 3600, MSI X470 GAMING PLUS MAX Motherboard and Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB)

Obviously the Ryzen 7 is better but it's reasonably expensive. Will it make a huge difference to performance? I'm also open to other suggestions.
Thanks.

If all you doing is dolphin the r3 3300x would be similar in performance to the r5 and r7(assuming same generation of course). Dolphin doesn't use that many cores(2-3 for most part) so it won't benefit past that. That only thing that would help is higher clock speed. looking at specs. the r5 3600(4.2 peak) would only be around 2-5% slower then the r5 3600x(4.4 peak) or r7-3700x (4.4 peak). the r5 3600x and r7 3700x have the same peak clock speed though. The r3 3300x peak is in between the r5 3600 and r5 3600x\r7 3700x. If you you playing just dolphin and pc games then the r5 3600 would be enough if you want to do more then you could look into the r7 or faster. The r3 3100 is an option but it usually slightly slower per clock then the r3 3300x due to it split ccx setup compare to the r3 3300x single ccx. This increase core communication latency and hurt performance compare to the r3 3300x in general.

Thanks. That helps out heaps.