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

Lucas Singh

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I've been watching benchmarks across youtube and so far the R5 1600x looks great for multitasking purposes, but just doesn't meet the i5-7600K for gaming, not by a lot though. However, i've heard more and more games (old and new) are starting to be optimized for ryzen cpu's. I would be pairing either cpu with a GTX 1060 6GB SSC, so i'll probably also overlock the cpu. I would be doing mostly gaming.
 
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Go with Ryzen 1600x. For now temporarily you won't receive equal performance with a 7600k, however once DX12 and vulkan reach more games, the 1600x should be faster than the 7600k. But that could be a while.

Either way, Ryzen is still more than capable for gaming.