Existing low end vs high end CPU gaming comparisons?

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Looking for one or two sources that have posted (mostly gaming) benchmarks comparing a wide variety of low/high end CPUs/GPUs

For personal enjoyment and research, a friend and I wanted to do some benchmarking with all of our PC parts after our recent upgrades.

I started with:
CPU: i5-4570S
GPU: GTX 750ti
RAM: 2x4gb ddr3L, 1333mhz, CAS 10, 204 pin

Now I have:
CPU: Same
GPU: RX 580 (4gb)
RAM: 1x8gb ddr3L, 1600mhz, CAS 9, 204 pin (because one sodimm slot broke)

My friend had:
CPU: FX 4300
GPU: GTX 950 and GTX 1060 3gb
RAM: 2x4 ddr3 (not sure speed or CAS)

He upgrades to:
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: GTX 1080
RAM: 2x8gb (not sure speed or CAS)

So I figured with all the factors, we know which GPUs and CPUs should be best, based on a plethora of synthetic benchmarks already posted online. However, we wanted to mix and match CPU/GPU combinations to find from a first person perspective how much CPU and RAM matters, also how much GPU power do we actually need for our current gaming use

One issue. The FX system stopped working. Been trying to fix it for some time, but whether it's CPU or MoBo isn't determined, just can't get past MoBo startup screen. So we're still doing the benchmarks with the i5 and the Ryzen, however I wouldn't consider either of those nearly as terrible of a CPU as the FX 4300.

Obviously won't find the level of details nor exact details I'd get in the tests I want to go through, but to revert to the first section of this post, some sources on comparing these factors would be great
 
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I did that with my machines, it's really amazing how far we have come in the past 7 years or so.

Looked at my i5 750 machine with the original HD 5850 when I built it.

Compared that to adding a RX 480 to the above machine.

Then Added an I7 870 to the above machine.

Compared to my current i7 7700K machine with both an RX 480 and GTX 1080.


The results are pretty amazing really on how far we have come, almost 1,000% in graphics performance and 200% in CPU performance.

In about a 7 year span.
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Why are you attempting to compare CPUs that are of multiple different generations of ages? IPC of the Ryzen compares with Skylake, Haswell obviously would be worse than Ryzen, and FX compares favorably to Sandy Bridge which is much worse than Haswell.
 
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I did that with my machines, it's really amazing how far we have come in the past 7 years or so.

Looked at my i5 750 machine with the original HD 5850 when I built it.

Compared that to adding a RX 480 to the above machine.

Then Added an I7 870 to the above machine.

Compared to my current i7 7700K machine with both an RX 480 and GTX 1080.


The results are pretty amazing really on how far we have come, almost 1,000% in graphics performance and 200% in CPU performance.

In about a 7 year span.
 
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Just got to convince my friend whom just purchased a 1060 one month, then 1080 the next, that it is time to upgrade from ryzen to threadripper xD
 
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Jankerson has the answer to your question. It is just curiosity. I can of course easily find articles and videos comparing same generation processors or a Ryzen 5 or 7 to an i5 or 7, but crossing generations seems like it would be more interesting to me. We should all know that what you say is true... but by how much are there gains in performance, specifically gaming? Most videos use GTX 1080's and above (to avoid bottlenecking), however that's not a realistic bench for most people. I have found 2 videos in the past that explains how poorly people understand bottlenecking. It was comparing an i5 to an FX 6300. The i5 got more frames with the high-end gpu, but in certain titles the results flipped with lower end gpus. (wish I could link off to that video... was a while ago when I found it). Furthermore, I've looked at sources that say my Haswell has at least the same IPC as Ryzen. Looking at http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-4570S-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-1600/m5965vs3919 for example: the Ryzen 5 1600 has anywhere from a 24% higher base clock to a 38% higher base clock, yet single core performance is only 7% greater, and single core OC performance still is only 12% greater. In fact, I'd love to disable all the extra threads on that Ryzen, and under-clock it to 2.9ghz, disable turbo boost on the i5, and apples to apples figure out roughly what the IPC difference really is between a 4 year old Intel Chip and the latest offerings from AMD (regardless that Cache would be different, as well as a few other things other than just IPC)
 
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