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With all of those parts specifically, I would choose the Pentium if you're going for pure gaming performance. The only reason I'm not choosing Ryzen with those specs is that Ryzen runs much faster on better RAM, and 2400 simply isn't enough speed for Ryzen to be used at full efficiency (ignore my PC specs, I'm upgrading my RAM soon).

If you upgrade the RAM on the Ryzen system to say, 3000 or 3200 MHz we'd be talking up a different story. 2 cores is barely enough for modern games anymore, and most games are now starting to prefer 4 cores. That being said, almost everything nowadays is starting to prefer more cores, and once you take any workloads that use more than 4 cores aggressively, Ryzen will be better.

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With all of those parts specifically, I would choose the Pentium if you're going for pure gaming performance. The only reason I'm not choosing Ryzen with those specs is that Ryzen runs much faster on better RAM, and 2400 simply isn't enough speed for Ryzen to be used at full efficiency (ignore my PC specs, I'm upgrading my RAM soon).

If you upgrade the RAM on the Ryzen system to say, 3000 or 3200 MHz we'd be talking up a different story. 2 cores is barely enough for modern games anymore, and most games are now starting to prefer 4 cores. That being said, almost everything nowadays is starting to prefer more cores, and once you take any workloads that use more than 4 cores aggressively, Ryzen will be better.
 
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