Which Ryzen CPU generally beats the i7-6700K at gaming?

[kingmustard]

Looking to upgrade my i7-6700K.

 

The new Intel CPUs are simply too expensive.

 

I'm looking into Ryzen CPUs.

 

I game, edit video, frequently extract compressed files etc.

 

I know most Ryzen CPUs beat the i7-6700K when it comes to editing videos, extracting compressed files etc.

 

So the Ryzen CPU would need to at least match the i7-6700K in gaming.

 

Which Ryzen CPU equals or beats the i7-6700K in gaming?

 

 

[HKZeroFive]

No Ryzen CPU beats the i7-6700K in gaming. The reason why the Ryzen CPUs do well against the Intel CPUs in those workloads is because it's better in highly multithreaded tasks due to the extra cores and threads.

 

I'd get a R7 1700. You might encounter a performance drop in terms of gaming but it isn't going to be a drastic one.

[tp95112]

Gaming wise they will not beat the IPC of skylake. Switching to Ryzen is going to require you to sacrifice gaming performance for video editing tc

[Matu20]

None, 6700k and 7700k are kings for gaming, 1800X gets the closest, but 1600 is the best option for bang for buck.

[kingmustard]

That's embarrassing for AMD, then.

 

I'll stick with the i7-6700K until the i7-8800K drops to around £300, then.

[Anjelllo]

Don't upgrade, it's not going to be worthwhile.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, kingmustard said:

That's embarrassing for AMD, then.

 

I'll stick with the i7-6700K until the i7-8800K drops to around £300, then.

These guys make it seem like OMG RYZEN GETS 1 FPS IN GAMES, but generally if you are higher than 640p, which these guys test at, you are not going to see a difference. I have a 4k monitor, because video editing and photo editing and designing is my job, so I play in 4k, and in 4k there is no difference in processors, but GPUs. 

[aiucaiu]

I have bought a ryzen 1600x even tho im not going to be video editing just because it will last me longer

[ARikozuM]

None. The clock barrier and CCX latency on Ryzen prevents it from achieving the performance of the SYL and KBL chips.

9 minutes ago, Almostbauws said:

These guys make it seem like OMG RYZEN GETS 1 FPS IN GAMES, but generally if you are higher than 640p, which these guys test at

Who is testing 640?

[QuantumBit]

None, but if you're going to do video editing and anything else besides gaming, a r5 1600 or r7 1700 if you have the money will do you the best, at least for now.

[Techicolors]

here's some benches Steve did just a few hours ago 

 

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[ApolloFury]

In recent games the difference are getting narrower.

Only 2-5% slower, it is always in the top 5 for a reason.

Spoiler

From 2 days ago.

 

I have a 6700K that I use for gaming and 3D rendering, I still think it is too early to upgrade.

[cowpker4life]

if you can get a r5 1600 or r7 to run 4000mhz ram it will be very close if not on par in gaming with intel as teh faster the ram the closer the gap becomes also if you just get very lucky or do not care about frying your chip and overclock it past the 4ghz barrier yes a few get 4.1 but it is very rare something like 4.3-4.5ghz tho would get it very close if i had to guess but good luck getting that with out ln2. amd is suppose to be working on zen2 tho supposedly higher clocks and better ipc but if they just added a very good memory controller allowing ryzen to get 4000+mhz it would be there and only a big difference at 1080p 1440p it comes very close and 4k almost no difference.

[Kenrou]

I've seen too many contradictory benchmarks to say SL/KL are kings, I would say it depends if the game uses more then 4 cores, in which case even a Ryzen 1600 will close the gap and possibly overtake them. As said above they are getting closer and closer with BIOS upgrades and faster memory. Also everyone seems to gloss over the fact that most benchmarks show SL @4.7ghz+ and KL @5ghz against a Ryzen @4ghz or less... not only IPC at work here, 1ghz makes a hell of a diffference in gaming.

 

But all this "talk" is moot if you use a 60hz monitor, even my 5yo FX-8370 @4.5ghz has no issues keeping up if coupled with a 980ti/1070+.

[Coaxialgamer]

5 hours ago, kingmustard said:

That's embarrassing for AMD, then.

 

I'll stick with the i7-6700K until the i7-8800K drops to around £300, then.

On average , it's only a couple percent slower in games. It's at a point where it doesn't actually matter much imo . That's assuming you're not gpu limited of course.