Ryzen 1500x vs I5 7200k for games like fallout 4 and the witcher 3?

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Quad cores will pretty soon be obsolete in gaming, I would go with Ryzen for pretty much any build, especially one I don't plan on upgrading for 5+ years.
Altho, the X models are a waste of cash, just go with the normal 1500 or put in a lil extra and go with the 1600 for its 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads.
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Fallout 4 tests using an r9 390. Performance is similar.
https://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2017/04/12/amd-ryzen-5-1500x-review/5

Witcher 3
http://www.relaxedtech.com/reviews/amd/ryzen-5-1500x-1600x/4

It looks like when using a 1070 the cpu's perform similarly. Another set of benchmarks using a titan x show intel has an advantage (even 3rd gen i5) over the 1500x in witcher 3.
https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/luke-hill/amd-ryzen-5-1500x-4c8t-cpu-review/all/1/

Some of the performance will depend on what the resolution and refresh rate of your monitor are as well as what gpu you're using. Neither will be terrible from the looks of how close they are. Depending what other tasks you plan to do, video encoding, lots of zipping/unzipping may be the tie breaker for you (ryzen would be the better choice). For pure gaming, intel might give you a slight edge.
 
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Quad cores will pretty soon be obsolete in gaming, I would go with Ryzen for pretty much any build, especially one I don't plan on upgrading for 5+ years.
Altho, the X models are a waste of cash, just go with the normal 1500 or put in a lil extra and go with the 1600 for its 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads.
 
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But people have been saying that for a long time, and yet game developers continue to utilize only one or two cores. Has something happened recently to give evidence that game developers are actually going to take advantage of multiple cores anytime soon? Or is this the same stuff people have been saying forever? I remember people telling me the same thing when I got my i5-3570, but here we are in 2017 and it is still running every modern game alongside my GTX 1070.

Anyway, looking at upgrading myself now, and struggling with Ryzen vs i7 myself with # of cores being the same concern... but nobody has pointed toward anything concrete that games are really going to start using 4+ cores anytime soon.

 
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Although an i5 is only 4-thread, and games are increasing benefiting from more than 4 threads, each core on an i5 is faster enough than those in a 1400 that it makes up for the extra threads - total throughput is similar, the i5 has better single-threaded performance but the Ryzen CPUs are noticeably cheaper.
 
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Well, Ashes of the Singularity, for one :p. More and more games are starting to ask for a quad core as minimum/recommended CPUs.

Nah Ecky, Ryzen lags like 10% behind the latest Cores IPC-wise. This isn't Bulldozer :p.
 
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There's also clockspeed to consider. The Ryzen 1500X has a 3.7ghz turbo clock and a 25-30% throughput advantage from SMT, while an i5 7600K clocks in at 4.2 turbo and has a 10-15% IPC advantage, giving it a 25-30% per-core advantage at stock speeds - almost exactly the same extra throughput SMT gives. At max OC (let's say 4.0 vs 4.7) the i5 pulls slightly ahead even in multithreaded workloads.

However, again, the i5 is more expensive and more comparable to a Ryzen 1600 in overall price. Between those two it's no contest.
 
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~13% in computing on average, and ~23% in games on average.
 
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