Ryzen 7 1700X or i5-7600k for gaming?

[pizzaislife95]

Which processor would be better for gaming and over clocking? I would be using a Geforce 1060 6gb graphic card with it, just want to know which processor would be better, thanks.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

The 7600K would be faster in most games I think. I found this comparison video of a few games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTyYon4M11Q

But rather than buy the 7600K now, I would wait for Coffee Lake supposedly to be released early October.

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

7600K for gaming.
Also you do realize that for the price of the 1700x you can almost go I7-7700K only like $20 more.

 

[1LiquidPC]

If gaming is your primary use, I'd stick with the 7600k, especially if gaming at 1080P. If you're streaming, ect., then it can become another story.

 

[mdd1963]

The 7600K is faster in today's games....today. But, the 4c/4t design is staring to lose it's luster pretty quickly. Even if peak framerates might not quite match the 7600K, I suspect the minimums of the R5-1600 (especially if OC'd to 3.9 GHz) will do very nicely in the most modern games that scale well with more cores/threads, such as BF1....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VvwWTQKCZs

Fast forward to 6:38 to review assorted gaming comparisons at various resolutions...

 

[chemmajorp53]

There's no reason to get a 1700X for gaming, this comparison should be between the R5 1600 and the i5

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

Even bd1 scales well with more cores/threads Intel still wins because it scales even better with faster clock speed.

 

[mdd1963]

the 4c/4t train was viable last year, but, I'd not intentionally start there now...

Oddly enough, Amazon sales rankings accurately tell the true tale in order of 'should purchase'

1.7700K
2. R5-1600

 

[coozie7]

Either is likely to be held back by a GTX1060, so either will do pretty well as well.
That said, the display may also be a point to consider: On any 60Hz display any high end system will be ultimately be held back to 60FPS, regardless of specs elsewhere, but a faster display, especially at 1080 rez will benefit from an Intel CPU, assuming the GPU can drive it.

 

[chemmajorp53]

I wouldn't even buy anything now, Kaby Lake is getting old and Coffee Lake shouldn't be that far away.

 

[sizzling]

Once Coffee Lake releases 4c/4t will be i3 class. With games starting to use more than 4 threads I just would not buy a current generation i5, they just don't look as good of an investment as Ryzen or Coffee Lake. There are a few up coming games recommending current generation i7's and we have seen some already, ok that's probably a bit overkill but shows the direction things are going. I'm quite excited about the i5 8600k, a true 6 core cpu with the same or slightly better single core performance than the 7700k. As hyperthreading only gives the 7700k at best a 30% performance boost a true 6 core cpu should match it or even beat it.