I5 4670k or Ryzen 5 1600 for Gaming?

[Ramzyy]

I'm looking to buy I5 4670k with MSI z87 gd65 mobo and Ram 2x4gb Ddr3 Corsair Vengeance cmz8gx3m2a1600c9 of a friend for 250 euro. OR Should I wait and get Ryzen 5 1600,
GIGABYTE GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 mobo and ram
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series F4-3200C16D-8GVR 8 GB (4 GBx2) DDR4 3200 MHz C16 1.35 V Memory Kit - Classic Black for 350 euro.
Which would be better for GAMING? My current gpu is Dual gtx 1060 6gb

 

[geofelt]

I5-4670K will be stronger for most games than the 1600.
It has better single thread performance. Passmark rating is 2192 vs. 1832.
Ryzen has more threads(12 vs. 4) but few games use more than 2-3 threads.

 

[clintonmeier]

I would go with an atari or if your feeling fancy a commador 64 should produce jaw dropping results.
Cpus brought around 5% gaming performance each gen while gpus brought over 25% gen to gen.
Gpu beats cpu every time if the cpu is not bottlenecked. I'm willing to bet with how much more sc the new Intel has over the oc ryzen you are looking at a total of 8 fps difference 1440p and around 15 fps for 1080p. Better off with a $80 range cpu which was released within the last 5 years and a 1080ti than a i7 8700k with a gfx 1060 as the 1060 will be bottlenecked well before reaching 60 fps on ultra settings 1080p while the 80 cpu provided it's not bottlenecking will give you hundreds of fps ultra in 1080p or generally 40-60 fps area ultra in 4k not to mention how much an effect poorly configured or slow ram + storage can do to help close the distance between the 2 in overall performance as your cpu is only as fast as the sources feeding the cpu. As far as gaming well my 1600x with gtx980 ran firestrike, times spy and parachuter scoring in the midst of different Intel's such as the i5 6700k above a couple other more gamer popular models including poorly configured or unmodded gfx bios i7700k and that other popular 5xxx 6c 12t and just barely shy of a large group of avg scoring i7 7700k results running the same gfx980 model card and I'm talking less than a few hundred points from them which were done before the fall creators update and the future meltdown patches that decreased performance up to 10% from reports I've read which both have impacted scores and performance noticably.
Just throwing it out there but my top firestrike score i got using my 1600x with a gtx980 card compared it to the scores of the i7 7700k with a gtx 980 and out of 1290 results i would be sitting at #15 just and just 1 point shy of be tied with #14 on their leaderboard.

 

[sizzling]

As the owner of a 4670k I would go Ryzen. True older games will do better with the i5 but over the last 1-2 years more and more AAA games are benefiting from more than 4 cores/threads. Mine in recent games sits either at or close to 100% on all cores even though I use a fps cap at 60.