Ryzen 7 2700 vs i5-9600K

[nomz83]

I'm about to build a computer for work.

Where I live, the 2700 and 9600K are priced the same.

I do some analytics (KNIME, tensorflow, etc.), Excel stuff, and MySQL.
I'll have a 1060 or 1070 GPU, so the integrated graphics don't mean much.

Which should I go for?

I'm really torn and I can't seem to figure out how much multi-threaded work I do.
Right now I'm on a laptop i7 6700HQ and most of my work seems to be handled on the GPU.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

The 2700. You just get way more CPU than the 9600k. The 9600k will have a slight edge in gaming performance, but less than 10%. The 2700 will blow the doors off of the 9600k for any multi threaded workloads. Plus it comes with a cooler whereas the 9600k does not.

 

[nomz83]

thanks for the response! 2700 it is!

 

[valeman2012]

The 2700. You just get way more CPU than the 9600k. The 9600k will have a slight edge in gaming performance, but less than 10%. The 2700 will blow the doors off of the 9600k for any multi threaded workloads. Plus it comes with a cooler whereas the 9600k does not.

Intel will mostly beat most of any AMD Processors in gaming which what people mainly is using it for.......AMD is only good making it affordable.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

The 2700. You just get way more CPU than the 9600k. The 9600k will have a slight edge in gaming performance, but less than 10%. The 2700 will blow the doors off of the 9600k for any multi threaded workloads. Plus it comes with a cooler whereas the 9600k does not.

Intel will mostly beat most of any AMD Processors in gaming which what people mainly is using it for.......AMD is only good making it affordable.

Yep, Intel will bead AMD CPUs at gaming, that is why I said:

The 9600k will have a slight edge in gaming performance

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But Intel's lead is by a very small margin. So saying that AMD is only good at making it affordable sounds like nothing but bias. Both modern Intel and AMD CPUs are excellent.

I am not an AMD fan or Intel fan. I own a 1950x and a 8700k, so I think I can speak objectively. If I had it to do over again though, I would have held off on my 8700k and went with a 2700x because it is just too much CPU to pass up. Right now with Intel's pricing makes very difficult to recommend Intel's CPUs. The price gap is just too large and the performance gap is too small.