ryzen 2600x or 1700 for gaming ?

[therios]

witch one should i go for for gaming at 1080p 60hz with a gtx 1080 ?

 

[theyeti87]

If you're building entirely from scratch, go with the 2600X.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

The will be very close in performance. Techpowerup.com's review showed about a 5% bump in fps with the 2600x. If you don't need the additional cores of the 1700x, then the 2600x makes more sense.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Ryzen_5_2600X/13.html

By the way, for 1080p/60hz, a gtx 1080 is way overkill and you wont get any added benefit from that resolution and refresh rate vs a 1060/580.

 

[spdragoo]

Either one will be fine, especially with a GTX 1080 for 1080p gaming...

 

[Gadhar]

I agree with theyeti87. If you are starting fresh the go with the more recent cpu.

 

[punkncat]

My current config is an R7 1700 OC to 3.7, 16GB RAM, and a GTX1080. Ashes of the Singularity on "Insane" or w/e it's called graphics have caused the card to blip once in the midst of a HUGE battle. I ticked it back a notch to "Extreme" and have had no issues. None of my other games even begin to cause issue, including Witcher 3 with EVERYTHING on max.
To be fair, I am using VSYNC to lock at 60 frames @1080 due to my current monitor.

Only a few of my games currently utilize many of the cores, but a few do...and Ashes uses it ALL.

Considering that you can readily pick up a 1700 for $200 right now, it's almost a no brainer for such a little gain. I will say, as you select your parts, pay CLOSE attention to the chipset to CPU and particularly make SURE your RAM is on the mobo list.