i5 8400 vs r5 1600 New pc HELP PLEZ

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I want to build a new gaming pc (not planning on waiting) and i dont know which cpu to choose:

i5 8400 vs r5 1600

Gpu: gtx 1070 / ram: 16gb

Prices in my country are pretty much the same, only 23e difference.
i5: 200e + z370: 140 = 340
r5: 205e + b350: 112 = 317

Planning to game on 1080p/144hz and not upgrading for as long as possible.

What do you think?
 
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madmatt30
@poufpou - obviously when you have a CPU that has 12 threads as opposed to one that has 6 the total CPU utilisation is going to show as lower.

Windows & monitoring apps don't differentiate between physical cores & secondary hyper threaded ones.

I'm a big fan of ryzen but the fact is Intel is better suited to 144htz gaming full stop , ryzen is comfortable upto 100htz I'd say generally, past that the intel is going to win out because of its stronger core performance.

& yes the ryzen has a lot more theoretical headroom left in it, I highly doubt that'll really ever matter for gaming though in all honesty.

You'd need a crystal ball to be 100% certain though.
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^+1 I think vapour is bang on the money there! At 1080p the 8400 wins out. It just has better IPC, along with higher turbo speeds. At 1080p the 8400 wins out. At higher res, they balance out a little as the performance shifts to the GPU, and both procs are roughly the same. Plus you really have to OC the R5 1600 to even compare the two processors, where the 8400 stands alone at stock (obviously it's not OC'able though)

Check this out for a comparison: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11859/the-anandtech-coffee-lake-review-8700k-and-8400-initial-numbers/13. The 8400 beats the 1600 in nearly everything except Civilisations 6! It's a great CPU. Just not OC'able. and in some multitask situations the R5 1600 will win out due to the 6c/12t v 6c/6t. But thats to be expected. For gaming the 8400 beats the 1600 OC'ed.
 
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Thank you both for anwsering!

From benchmarks I saw that ingame the cpu usage% of the i5 is often close to being maxed out whereas the r5 gets to around 50-60%.

Does this mean the r5 even with less fps will perform better on future titles because it still has percentage % of cpu to use?
 
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@poufpou - obviously when you have a CPU that has 12 threads as opposed to one that has 6 the total CPU utilisation is going to show as lower.

Windows & monitoring apps don't differentiate between physical cores & secondary hyper threaded ones.

I'm a big fan of ryzen but the fact is Intel is better suited to 144htz gaming full stop , ryzen is comfortable upto 100htz I'd say generally, past that the intel is going to win out because of its stronger core performance.

& yes the ryzen has a lot more theoretical headroom left in it, I highly doubt that'll really ever matter for gaming though in all honesty.

You'd need a crystal ball to be 100% certain though.
 
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