CPU's and Games thread ripper vs i78700k

[viper360]

I am thinking about buying a AMD thread ripper 1950x but from what people are saying online is that the cpu is horrible for gaming. I think people are saying that becuase of the FPS count on the cpu if I am going to get a GPU any way does that really matter because dont the FPS rely on the GPU alone? how does that cpu compare to the i78700k cpu?

I am going to be using the cpu for gaming, workstation use, video editing, coding, word prossing, and VR

 

[volkgren]

It's not that the 1950X is horrible for gaming, but that it's not cost effective for gaming. Gaming does rely on CPU, but once it has enough threads to run a game, speed and IPC (instructions per cycle) are more important than a bunch of extra cores/threads. Intel beats AMD in clock speed and IPC.

Either way the i7-8700K is great for everything. The 1950X would only be better if you wanted your videos to render faster. Other than that I can't see much to gain from paying twice the price for your CPU.

 

[viper360]

It's not that the 1950X is horrible for gaming, but that it's not cost effective for gaming. Gaming does rely on CPU, but once it has enough threads to run a game, speed and IPC (instructions per cycle) are more important than a bunch of extra cores/threads. Intel beats AMD in clock speed and IPC.

Either way the i7-8700K is great for everything. The 1950X would only be better if you wanted your videos to render faster. Other than that I can't see much to gain from paying twice the price for your CPU.

is spectrem and meltdown affected by those CPU's?

 

[ARICH5]

volk beat me to it. ya TR is more for productivity where there is a profit to made to offset the cost of the cpu. also games have to be coded properly to take advantage of cores. thats where higher IPC is important for gaming. id take a 4-core cpu @ 3.8Gz over a 12-core cpu @ 2.8Gz anyday. for gaming.