is the 1080ti much better for rendering than the 1080

[Orcslayer31]

I am a student cg artist, I use blender and I'm looking to upgrade my pc, and am deciding between the 1080 and the 1080 ti but am not sure if the extra 200 dollars is worth it, i don't if this matters but I'm also putting in a i7-7700K quad-core at 4.2 GHz, a gigabtye gaming 7 motherboard, and 16 gb of ram

 

[lakimens]

It's not worth it. I would suggest a Ryzen 1700 build for rendering, 8C/16T same price as the 7700k.

 

[Orcslayer31]

It's not worth it. I would suggest a Ryzen 1700 build for rendering, 8C/16T same price as the 7700k.

will the Ryzen 1700 run games well enough if i want to play them on the side, sorry if this is a dumb question i don't know much about amd cpu's

 

[azaran]

In terms of productivity, the Ryzen 1700 will have a bit of an edge over the i7-7700k with Blender. If you could step up to the 1700x, which is close to the price of the i7, you'd get a marked improvement over the i7 with Blender. As for gaming, in most games right now the i7 would take the lead. The higher clock rate (among other reasons) matters more than the higher core count of the Ryzen 7. It's not that the Ryzen is bad at gaming, its just (depending on the game) not as good as the i7. It's kind of the standard when looking building a workstation, good high core count productivity but lower single threaded performance on things like games.

As for the original question, the extra 200 might be worth throwing towards a Ryzen 1800x or increase in RAM or a high I/O NVMe SSD.

 

[rhysiam]

Ryzen is still a capable gaming CPU. If you're buying a 240hz display and want the highest possible FPS you can get, it will fall behind a 7700K - particularly if you OC the Intel. But for most gaming workloads Ryzen CPUs are still very capable for gaming.

Blender is actually one of the workloads AMD kept showing off for Ryzen CPUs because they do really, really well there. A Ryzen 7 1700 for ~$320 with a bit of an overclock with a cheap cooler and motherboard can hang with a $1000 Intel 6900K in Blender, and leaves any quad core Intel far, far behind.

If you were primarily gaming with a bit of Blender rendering on the side then I'd probably still recommend the Ryzen 7 1700, though you could make an argument either for the Intel or AMD CPU. But it sounds like you're primarily rendering with a bit of gaming "on the side"... in which case Ryzen 7 1700 is a no-brainer.

 

[Orcslayer31]

In terms of productivity, the Ryzen 1700 will have a bit of an edge over the i7-7700k with Blender. If you could step up to the 1700x, which is close to the price of the i7, you'd get a marked improvement over the i7 with Blender. As for gaming, in most games right now the i7 would take the lead. The higher clock rate (among other reasons) matters more than the higher core count of the Ryzen 7. It's not that the Ryzen is bad at gaming, its just (depending on the game) not as good as the i7. It's kind of the standard when looking building a workstation, good high core count productivity but lower single threaded performance on things like games.

As for the original question, the extra 200 might be worth throwing towards a Ryzen 1800x or increase in RAM or a high I/O NVMe SSD.

Thanks

 

[rhysiam]

I'm assuming you're prepared to overclock given you were originally considering the 7700K?

If so, there's very little point paying more for anything "better" than the Ryzen 7 1700. All Ryzen CPUs are overclocked, and most hit 3.9Ghz without too much trouble, some manage 4Ghz and only very few get higher than that. So while the 1700X and 1800X are, in theory, better "binned" CPUs, the chance that it'll make any difference whatsoever once overclocked is slim, and even if it does, it's probably a difference of 100Mhz (~3%)... not worth the extra money.