I'm looking to upgrade from an FX8350, I have a budget of around £200. The I5 7600K and Ryzen 5 1600x seem to be the best option for me, as my main focus is gaming. Out of these two which would be the better one? I have heard that the ryzen struggles with games that are not optimised for it.
Upgrading from a FX8350
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Sorry might have misunderstood. The i5 7600k competes with the 1600 but in games that can use more than 4 threads the 1600 excels. Games are starting to use more threads and to me Ryzen just looks a better buy. We already know the next gen i5's will have 6 core variants so Intel are aware 4 cores won't cut it in the future.
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It might "look" a little dated, but I have two PCs - one with an i7-4790k and one with an i5-4690k (both moderately overclocked). I've swapped the same video card (a GTX 1060 6GB) between them on occasion and notice no difference in gaming on a 1920x1200 60hz monitor. Single core IPC still rules over many cores with a lower IPC in gaming.
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