Another AMD Ryzen 5 1600x vs Intel Core i5-7600K post!

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Hey all, TIA for your input!

I've seen a ton of these posts asking if people should wait for the AMD Ryzen 5 or go with the Intel i5 now but all are based on specific needs and I've seen some really helpful feedback out there so I figured I'd plug in my specific needs and see what people thought.

I'm putting a new build together for my husband as his is just too clunky now. He mostly plays the Blizzard library of games WoW, HotS, Overwatch. But he's also planning on starting to stream his raids which were I'm not sure what the best CPU to go with is. Also if he had a better machine I know he'd branch out what he plays on PC vs our PS4. Will the extra cores of the AMD help with both playing and streaming from one machine (not ready to have a 2nd streaming box at the moment)? I've been reading through this forum and the Twitched Reddit page but I know with the Ryzen 5 not actually out yet it's all just speculation. Figured out see what the masses thinks.

Also worth noting, I was planning on keeping his current graphic card, the Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB for at least the time being and upgrading it when we can afford a legit upgrade rather than just a mild upgrade. Feel free to let me know as well if this just won't handle the streaming he's planning on doing as well as raiding in WoW.

Thanks again!
 
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Corwin65
How many of you have actually used the Ryzen 5?

Can you share actual real world benchmarks?

The reason I ask is because the answer right now is None and No.

The OP has asked a well thought out question (kudos btw) with all the details for someone to provide a good answer.

Unfortunately, till the R5 is actually released, and benchmarks, real world benchmarks are available, we can't really provide the answer to the question.

My 2 cents, wait a few days to a week after release, and ask the question again when we have actual information to guide us in an answer.
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Supernova1138

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The Ryzen's extra cores and threads would be helpful for streaming, though the i5 7600k would be capable of achieving higher raw framerates in everything aside from maybe Overwatch, at least when not streaming. The R7 260x is a pretty weak GPU these days, you'll get the same gaming performance out of either CPU until you get a better graphics card, neither option is going to hold back an R7 260x in any way.
 
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Corwin65

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How many of you have actually used the Ryzen 5?

Can you share actual real world benchmarks?

The reason I ask is because the answer right now is None and No.

The OP has asked a well thought out question (kudos btw) with all the details for someone to provide a good answer.

Unfortunately, till the R5 is actually released, and benchmarks, real world benchmarks are available, we can't really provide the answer to the question.

My 2 cents, wait a few days to a week after release, and ask the question again when we have actual information to guide us in an answer.
 
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It is actually possible to do a fairly well educated guess as the R5 1600x is going to be the same as the R7 CPUs, just with one core on each CCX disabled. If you have an R7 Ryzen chip, just disable two cores, set your clock speed to the 1600x's and you effectively have that CPU. Since few games scale well beyond 4 cores and 8 threads right now, gaming performance is likely to be identical to an R7 chip clocked at the same speed. It has more cores and threads than an i5, so on workstation tasks it will beat any i5.
 
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While I agree with your methodology and believe you may be right, i'd still err on the side of caution until we get real world information.
 
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It really doesn't take a genius to guess, Corwin65. How could the 1600X with 6 cores and 12 threads, against all the odds, with the same IPC and all, magically perform significantly different in games in comparison to the 1800X with 8 cores and 16 threads?

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5cqOtWz5sU"][/video]
 
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Seanie280672

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just watched the video, wow, who would of thought that all those reviews a month ago about poor RyZen peformance in games was wrong ? the 7700K vs the 1800X in that video, apart from farcray primal, pretty much kept up all the way. and that was with the Intel chips clocked to 4.8ghz and Ryzen's at 4ghz, thanks for this vid.

 
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