p5yc0k1ll3r :
I want to see something that no one has tested. I want to see how an i7 7700 non k performs against an i7 7700k and ryzen 7 1700 in games. Because if you look at any comparison where an i7 7700k is benchmarked at stock playing games and after an overclock it barely does 1fps more. So i think an i7 7700 non k for gaming is perfect. I would love to see benchmarks between those cpus. I own a i7 7700 non k and love it. I know ryzen is at par if not better. I could have bought a ryzen 7 1700 for exactly the same price as my i7 but i went for what i thought was perfect NOW. Any thoughts?
p5yc0k1ll3r,
From the beginning, the constant comparison between Ryzen 7's and the i7-7700K has seemed to me to be fallacious. These processors are for two different purposes. The Ryzen 7 is 8-core which implies applications /programs that have a reasonably good multi-threading whereas the i7-7700K is a 4-core all about the single-thread performance. What is amazing is that Ryzen 7 has 8-cores for the same price as a 4-core I7-7700K.
The fact that the Zyzen 7's can be overclocked to quite high rates means that the single-thread performance can equal an i7-7700K running at the same rate. Since the 7700K is starting withe higher top clock speed and is a four core means that ultimately, there will be many more 7700K's stable at 5GHz than Ryzen 7's so in that sense it "wins" for strongly single-threaded uses such as as games and in fact quite a number of 3D applications. There are a lot of users of Solidworks running essentially high performance gaming systems- but with a Quadro GPU.
In summary, those wanting the highest possible single-thread performance- gaming or only 3D CAD and aren't running CPU renderings, scientific /analytical/simulation applications- buy i7-7700K. Those doing CPU renderings, scientific /analytical/simulation applications + don't need the PCIe lanes and memory bandwidth of LGA2011-3 + would like an astoundingly affordable and fast 8-core = Ryzen 7.
You chose wisely.
Cheers,
BambiBoom
PS: Current Project: Having strongly considered a Ryzen 7 1800X and, alternately, using an i7-7700K plus a 16-core dual Xeon, the solution is:
Xeon E5-1680 v2 8-core 3.0 /3.9GHz _O/C to 4.3GHz on all cores
HP z620 case/chassis and motherboard
64GB DDR3-1866 ECC registered
Quadro P2000 5GB (performs similarly to GTX 1060) + Tesla M2090 6GB GPU coprocessing card
HP Z Turbo Drive M.2 265GB + Intel 730 480GB + 2X Seagate Constellation ES.3 1TB (RAID 1)
About the same cost as a Ryzen 7 1800X system with the same GPU and drives- but the RAM can be 192GB and there are 40 PCIe lanes so the GPU's both run at x16.
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