Need help picking out a cpu

[Thatguywithavan]

Last month, my old r9 280x that I bought used from ebay (smart, right) finally passed away. And now my financial situation is letting up so that I can upgrade.

I plan on getting a gtx-1080, pretty set in stone on that one.

I have an old fx-8320 and a gigabyte mobo that I can't remember the name of.

I do lots of photoshop work and I also spend some of my time making bad games in unity. I also would like to play some of the newer AAA titles coming out, 1440p maybe, and I also want to do vr some time in the future.

Performance for value is what I'm looking for the most.

What is the best cpu for what I need?

 

[bignastyid]

Ryzen R5 1600 is my reccomendation.

 

[vikyy17]

Ryzen 1700 if your budget permits. you can overclock that with a decent AIO water cooler to achieve the same performance as that of Ryzen 1800x. otherwise grab the 1600 which you can push it to 3.9ghz with the bundled cooler. right now there no competition between amd and intel. Ryzen annihilates both the intel's best selling i5 7600k and i7 7700k now

 

[bignastyid]

Ryzen 1700 if your budget permits. you can overclock that with a decent AIO water cooler to achieve the same performance as that of Ryzen 1800x. otherwise grab the 1600 which you can push it to 3.9ghz with the bundled cooler. right now there no competition between amd and intel. Ryzen annihilates both the intel's best selling i5 7600k and i7 7700k now

Depends on the task. In a pure gaming system the 7700k will still beat the Ryzen. And annihilate is a poor choice of words as Intel still has lead in single core performance. Each has thier pros and cons.

 

[vikyy17]

Ryzen 1700 if your budget permits. you can overclock that with a decent AIO water cooler to achieve the same performance as that of Ryzen 1800x. otherwise grab the 1600 which you can push it to 3.9ghz with the bundled cooler. right now there no competition between amd and intel. Ryzen annihilates both the intel's best selling i5 7600k and i7 7700k now

Depends on the task. In a pure gaming system the 7700k will still beat the Ryzen. And annihilate is a poor choice of words as Intel still has lead in single core performance. Each has thier pros and cons.

correct me if im wrong but i guess the reason why AMD Ryzen CPU's don't match the Intel counterpart with regards to pure gaming performance because games are not fully utilizing ryzen's potential or could be the cpu itself not properly optimised.

 

[bignastyid]

It's because most games use 4 or less threads and so the cpus with the best single threaded performance wins when it comes to games. Games are starting to use more threads but we are likely still a few years away from games needing massive amount of cores becoming common place. Ryzen most definitely closed the gap and offers very strong competition.