Intel Core i5-8400/GTX1060 3GB or Ryzen 7 2700/RX 580 8gb?

[Kuisco]

So the price difference between the two prebuilds is 123 euros more for the AMD build, is it worth it?

The main purpose of the pc is for virtualization (gns3, linux vms) & coding.

other activities: light gaming(cs:go) and editing

Intel build:

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 3GT OC, 3GB GDDR5

Biostar B250GT3 - Intel B250

Crucial Ballistix Sport LT, 8 GB RAM DDR4, 2400 MHz

Intel Core i5-8400

SSD Patriot Burst - 240GB

Evolveo - 550W

price: 604 euros

AMD build:

ASRock Radeon Phantom Gaming D RX580 8G OC, 8GB GDDR5

ASUS PRIME A320M-R - AMD A320

Crucial Ballistix Sport LT, 8 GB RAM DDR4, 2400 MHz

SSD Patriot Burst - 240GB

Evolveo - 550W

Ryzen 7 2700

price: 727 euros.

My concerns are if 6 cores in the Intel is good enough for future proof?

Is the price difference worth it considering 2 more cores, a better stock cooler, higher clock rate?

Are the GPUs equivalent considering the memory (3gb vs 8gb) and how much difference is it to justify the price?

The Intel build does come up with a better Motherboard and case but I don't plan to overclock.

Your help is much appreciated thanks :)

 

[-rascal-]

For your use case, I would go for the Ryzen 2700 over the i5-8400.

Additionally, the RX-580 8GB pulls ahead of the GTX 1060 3GB, plus the extra VRAM.

 

An A320 to cut costs.

It won't be a problem if you run the CPU at stock speeds, but will restrict you from overclocking the CPU.

DDR4-2400 is a little on the lower side, as DDR4-2933 / DDR4-3000 / DDR4-3200 is usually recommended for Ryzen.

[Firewrath9]

get a 2600, a B450 motherboard, and 2800mhz-3000mhz ram.

[Kuisco]

1 minute ago, -rascal- said:

For your use case, I would go for the Ryzen 2700 over the i5-8400.

Additionally, the RX-580 8GB pulls ahead of the GTX 1060 3GB, plus the extra VRAM.

 

An A320 to cut costs.

It won't be a problem if you run the CPU at stock speeds, but will restrict you from overclocking the CPU.

DDR4-2400 is a little on the lower side, as DDR4-2933 / DDR4-3000 / DDR4-3200 is usually recommended for Ryzen.

Thanks for the help,

the systems are prebuilds since it's cheaper to buy so than individual parts in eastern europe, will the ram be a bottleneck, I am assuming it is mostly noticed in games which I don't mind much.

[Kuisco]

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

get a 2600, a B450 motherboard, and 2800mhz-3000mhz ram.

the systems are prebuilds since it's cheaper to buy so than individual parts in eastern europe, is 2400mhz ram going to be a bottleneck in the ryzen build or it won't make much difference?

[Firewrath9]

2 minutes ago, Kuisco said:

the systems are prebuilds since it's cheaper to buy so than individual parts in eastern europe, is 2400mhz ram going to be a bottleneck in the ryzen build or it won't make much difference?

it should be fine, still better, but a better motherboard would be recc.

[Kuisco]

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

it should be fine, still better, but a better motherboard would be recc.

I don't plan on overclocking, so the only issue I see with the motherboard from the amd build is the build quality compared to the Intel ones(Intel one seems better) and ram slots 2vs4 which is not a big problem, I guess it all boils down to the price now.