AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Six-Core Quad-Core vs intel i7 4790k

[isogamer]

Uprading from:

AMD 8350 black edition
970A D3P MOBO
1600MHZ ddr 3 Ram

I would just like to know which CPUs i should go for? I have a friend who has a used intel i7 4790k to sell to me

OR

If i should go for the Ryzen 5 1600 six core and buy it at my local store brand new?

Both Cpus fit into my budget and they both end up as the same price since the intel i7 4790k is used.

I did the research on both and it seems the 4790k still comes out at top for gaming.

 

[Trafalgar747]

The i7 4790k be hands down better for gaming.

 

[filippi]

If you have money for both good quality motherboard and cpu cooler yeah the i7-4790k will give you amazing gaming performance.

 

[Gon Freecss]

The Zen architecture seems to be between Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge when it comes to gaming performance.

Comparing the two processors, in most games that make use of more than 4 cores, you'll see that the 1600X actually closes the gap between itself and the i7-4790K due to the two additional cores and 4 more threads. You won't notice any gaming performance differences, especially once the graphics card becomes the bottleneck.

http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2875-amd-r5-1600x-1500x-review-fading-i5-argument/page-4

Keep in mind the Ryzen 5 1600X is clocked at 3.6GHz and boosts up to 4GHz (4.1GHz with XFR). The i7-4790K is clocked at 4GHz and boosts up to 4.4GHz.

 

[isogamer]

Ya at the end of the day i would like my PC to be smooth on gaming and if i7 is the way to go then i will go with i7.

I just thought maybe with AMD's new processing architecture i thought it would at least match up with the 4790k vs then 1600x or even the 1500x.

But i think after reading your comments and doing my research and i would like to play my games at Max settings at 1080p. Seems like the solution is the 4790k.

Currently i have a 1060gtx EVGA SC mini, i don' t think the 4790k will Bottleneck? But ya i am trying to complete my build with that GPU. I am going to ugprade to a 1080gtx once it gets cheaper eventually.

 

[Gon Freecss]

Ya at the end of the day i would like my PC to be smooth on gaming and if i7 is the way to go then i will go with i7.

I just thought maybe with AMD's new processing architecture i thought it would at least match up with the 4790k vs then 1600x or even the 1500x.

But i think after reading your comments and doing my research and i would like to play my games at Max settings at 1080p. Seems like the solution is the 4790k.

Currently i have a 1060gtx EVGA SC mini, i don' t think the 4790k will Bottleneck? But ya i am trying to complete my build with that GPU. I am going to ugprade to a 1080gtx once it gets cheaper eventually.

If you looked at the article, then you'll know the difference is pretty small between Haswell and Zen. Those benchmarks used the GTX 1080 as the graphics card.

With the GTX 1060, you'll see little difference between Haswell and Zen. Also, the i7 won't bottleneck the graphics card. You could actually go with a locked Skylake/Kaby Lake i5 and be set. lol