Best Gaming CPU?

Kavinqt · Feb 22, 2017

Hello guys, Today I'm trying to figure out what would be by far the best CPU for gaming.

I was thinking that the i7 5820k would be the best especially from it's price but something about the socket gets to me.

Anyone with more knowledge than me care to chime in on this?

Supahos · Feb 22, 2017

Purely gaming nothing out beats a 7700k/z270 it'll oc higher than the CPU you mentioned and it's 2 generations newer so it'll do around 10ish% more work per cycle

Kavinqt · Feb 22, 2017

Supahos :

Even though benchmarks show it compared to a 6700k to be barely better?

I could be miss informed but from what I've seen the 7700k is such a small improvement from a 6700k

timgyl · Feb 22, 2017

7700k has the strongest single core performance at the moment, but ryzen is supposed to release in a couple of weeks (so i'd wait)

Supahos · Feb 22, 2017

There is no architecture diff between a 6700/7700 but clock speed is higher and basically every 7700 can run 4.8 a vast majority 4.9 the same can't be said for a 6700k. You asked best the answer is clear

Dunlop0078 · Feb 22, 2017

Kavinqt :

There are some IPC improvements when comparing kaby lake/skylake to haswell/broadwell. But thehe 6700k and 7700k are very similar and there has been no IPC improvements at all between skylake and kaby lake, the only reason to go for kaby lake in terms of performance is higher clock speeds and overcloking potential. I went with kaby lake over skylake in my recent upgrade only because they were more or less the same price.

Kavinqt · Feb 22, 2017

I agree, I'm only asking this question because a friend of mine has a 6700k and he doesn't have it overclocked in anyway, I keep telling him to overclock but he doesn't really want to. But he is thinking of upgrading CPU, Motherboard and his Case. But I truly don't see the reason to go from 6700k to a 7700k especially if he isn't keen on overclocking. That's why I was thinking the 5820k might be better but like said above for gaming the 7700k is probably the best bet.

Supahos · Feb 22, 2017

Zero reason to upgrade from a 6700k there is no upgrade. If he's gaming and not getting the performance he wants it's either a GPU issue or he built it wrong

Kavinqt · Feb 22, 2017

Thank's a lot guys have a good day!

fabiodrm · Feb 22, 2017

there alot of bechmarks show that a 6700k clocked at 4.2ghz and a 7700k clocked at 4.2ghz have exactly the same performance.

Out of the box, 7700k is already clocked at 4.2ghz and 6700k at 4.0ghz.

if you overclock the 5820k to 4.2ghz ~ 4.5ghz it will rock, for sure.

Kavinqt · Feb 22, 2017

fabiodrm :

Yeah my first thoughts were if you could get a 5820k to around 4ghz or so it would be a killer CPU.

Supahos · Feb 22, 2017

But it's a haswell chip which is 10ish% slower than sky/kaby lake so a 3.6 GHz sky/kaby would be equivalent. A 4.6 (absolutely automatic on many) 7700k would be the same speed as a 5.0 5820k which you'll not likely get. Zero games today perform better on a slower 6c12t processor than a faster 4c/8t

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