Why is the R5 1600 equal or better than R7 1700 at gaming?

[Echoceres]

So i couldn't make my mind which to buy. Price difference is about 100$ in my country. And their performance in gaming is almost equal.

 

[n0ns3ns3]

because the main difference between them is number or available cores/threads.
There are very few games out there (at the moment) that can take advantage of more than 6/12 cores/threads available on the ryzen 1600.
That's why there is very little difference between the two for gaming.

 

[helpstar]

if all cores are used, the 1700 is @stock 3,15 GHz and the 1600 @stock 3,4GHz, more frequency is better for gaming than more cores/threads (for now)

very less games are using more than 4 cores/threads at the same time

If you wanna stream or render or edit: the more cores the better

 

[Finstar]

Get the 1600 and put the $100 towards fast ram and a good motherboard

 

[Echoceres]

if all cores are used, the 1700 is @stock 3,15 GHz and the 1600 @stock 3,4GHz, more frequency is better for gaming than more cores/threads (for now)

very less games are using more than 4 cores/threads at the same time

If you wanna stream or render or edit: the more cores the better

Im planning on streaming and doing video editings so i might consider 1700 for the long run also. plus i saw it uses less cpu than the r5