Ryzen 5 vs i5

[n00bmlg]

Right now I have a non OC'd FX 6300 with a GTX 1050 ti, I'm considering upgrading my CPU and am trying to decide between an i5 or a Ryzen 5, which should I choose and why?

[Princess Luna]

ryzen 1400 if you're tight budget, ryzen 1600 if you can afford it, get an Asus b350 board and you're golden.

 

Threads are muuuuch more meaningful and important nowadays, even games needs more threads already, therefore the 1400 (4c/8t) and 1600 (6c/12t) will have a larger life span than the i5 (4c/4t) would.

[ARikozuM]

Depends on the rest of both systems. I would start by using PCPP to build a red and blue build and seeing which gives the most value.

[Cyracus]

I'd go with an r5 1600 personally, just make sure you check the mobo ram cert list if you do so you can get that running as fast as possible

[TeoIzAwezome]

What are you going to use your system for?

[2bitmarksman]

As always, it depends. What's your budget, and do you plan on reusing any RAM? i.e. you could get a relatively i74790k and z97 on ebay if you want to reuse your DDR3 modules. If you want to buy new and are going to buy the CPU, Mobo and DDR4, then I would probably go with Ryzen 5 CPU's that best fit your budget as this provides the best bang for buck and as most games as of now don't use more than 4c/8t, which makes the 1400 a great buy. The 1600 would make your system a bit more future proof and could give you a bigger bang for buck in the long run though imo.

[n00bmlg]

2 hours ago, TeoIzAwezome said:

What are you going to use your system for?

1080p gaming

[n00bmlg]

1 hour ago, 2bitmarksman said:

As always, it depends. What's your budget, and do you plan on reusing any RAM? i.e. you could get a relatively i74790k and z97 on ebay if you want to reuse your DDR3 modules. If you want to buy new and are going to buy the CPU, Mobo and DDR4, then I would probably go with Ryzen 5 CPU's that best fit your budget as this provides the best bang for buck and as most games as of now don't use more than 4c/8t, which makes the 1400 a great buy. The 1600 would make your system a bit more future proof and could give you a bigger bang for buck in the long run though imo.

I might look into getting an older i7, this upgrade is mostly hypothetical and has no budget

[2bitmarksman]

If you want to compare i7's here's a video showing some differences in how they perform in a selection of games: 

This can also be used to show differences in how memory performs from DDR3 to DDR4 as well. They do two rounds of testing on these, once at stock CPU settings (factory base clock and turbo settings) and another round where each CPU is clocked at 4.5 GHz. With each at 4.5GHz the 3770k and 4790k performed near identical and the 6700k and 7700k near identical, meaning likely a combination of the faster RAM speed and overall core arc changes account for the small performance boost of going from at 4790k to 6700k.