Is the rx480 enough
1 hour ago, Midniteb0ne said:He has an r5 1400 which is imo terrible, so I'm upgrading it to an r7 1700 which is just 169$ rn. I'll overclock the CPU so the difference should be negligible. And no I won't be recording or streaming at least not right now but I am going to get into Game Development and machine learning. But before I can do that I'll need to learn calculus and linear algebra and I'll need to get good at phyton so by the time I'll actually do something I'll probably have upgraded my GPU.
Which one would be better the R5 2600 or the R7 1700 assuming that I overclock both of them to 3.8-4.0 GHz?
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R5 2600 is ideal since it gives a higher single threaded performance when compared to the R7 1700. For your sake and not just word of mouth I would look into some (recent) benchmarks comparing the two overclocked CPUs. Keep in mind the 2600 should be able to get a higher overclock than the 1700. In the end it is up to you, if you feel like you want to get serious with more intensive workloads find out the power needed to deliver those. I am not well educated on the resources those task perform but since you're getting into it I feel it maybe something important to know. For gaming six cores is more than plenty, even if you wanted to have your desktop flooded with open programs. tl;dr for gaming the six cores on the 2600 is all you need, even allows for a lot of multitasking alongside gaming. Trade off is 2 less cores for a higher single thread increase. For your future tasks I would research if you need 8 cores. If you do then might as well get the 1700 with a sacrifice to your gaming fps.
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