What's the best cpu for gaming and streaming at 1080p 144hz?

[Rui Xavier]

I already have a rtx 2060 and i was considering buying either the core i7 9700k or the ryzen 7 3700x

Also how much ram should i buy 16gb or 32gb?

[Fasauceome]

It's hard to beat the 3700X

[Metallus97]

R7 blows the i7 out of the water in such a heavy multithreaded workload 

also it is faster for like 95% of other usecases 

[Rui Xavier]

I really dont know just because of the higher single core clock speeds of the i7

[amdorintel]

depends on what games use for cores

whats the majority of games you play, correlate that to how many cores they use

then get the fastest bitch out there!

i saw a 4.5Ghz somewhere, dunno if thats stock, assume so, so over 5Ghz  overclock is probably very common now

[Metallus97]

Just now, Rui Xavier said:

I really dont know just because of the higher single core clock speeds of the i7

They are irrelevant in your usecase

also the single core perf from the i7 is only a little bit better than the R7.

the advantages of the R7 outway this by much! 
Especaily when doing game streaming.

R7 will result in better liking stream and more FPS for you

[Rui Xavier]

I mainly play games like battlefield 5, farcry 5, skyrim and some battle royales lke apex legends and fortnite

[Metallus97]

1 minute ago, amdorintel said:

depends on what games use for cores

whats the majority of games you play, correlate that to how many cores they use

then get the fastest bitch out there!

i saw a 4.5Ghz somewhere, dunno if thats stock, assume so, so over 5Ghz  overclock is probably very common now

Bro,

he streams -> MULTICORE power is needed. R7 has much more of that than the i7

[amdorintel]

Look here

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/#sort=-clock&page=1

 

is money an issue, if not go intel

if money is an issue go amd

 

 

1 minute ago, Rui Xavier said:

I mainly play games like battlefield 5, farcry 5, skyrim and some battle royales lke apex legends and fortnite

[Metallus97]

Just now, Rui Xavier said:

I mainly play games like battlefield 5, farcry 5, skyrim and some battle royales lke apex legends and fortnite

Going R7 you will lose like 5FPS when gaming without the stream 

you won’t really notice that

when streaming R7 is way way way more performing than i7

[Rui Xavier]

do you think that with a rtx 2060 and a r7 3700x i can stream at 144hz?

 

[LogicWeasel]

1 minute ago, Rui Xavier said:

do you think that with a rtx 2060 and a r7 3700x i can stream at 144hz?

 

Whether your comp can hit 144fps in-game depends heavily on the game and settings you play at.  You may have to lower in-game settings to get the RTX 2060 to run that high.  Ideally for that budget you'd have been better off on an RX 5700 or better.  

 

Whether you can stream at that FPS is more up to your upload and what broadcast SW and bitrate you're using.

[Rui Xavier]

Just now, LogicWeasel said:

Whether your comp can hit 144fps in-game depends heavily on the game and settings you play at.  You may have to lower in-game settings to get the RTX 2060 to run that high.  Ideally for that budget you'd have been better off on an RX 5700 or better.  

 

Whether you can stream at that FPS is more up to your upload and what broadcast SW and bitrate you're using.

do you think i can at least stream battlefield on ultra at more than 60 fps?

[LogicWeasel]

1 minute ago, Rui Xavier said:

do you think i can at least stream battlefield on ultra at more than 60 fps?

What fps do you get when you play battlefield right now w/o streaming?

[Rui Xavier]

1 minute ago, LogicWeasel said:

What fps do you get when you play battlefield right now w/o streaming?

right now i have a i3 7100 so whitout streaming i get like 50fps

But try seeing this 

 

[LogicWeasel]

Just now, Rui Xavier said:

right now i have a i3 7100 so whitout streaming i get like 50fps

Yeah that's a huge CPU bottleneck, so you should at least be able to get to 60fps I'd imagine.

[Rui Xavier]

3 minutes ago, LogicWeasel said:

Yeah that's a huge CPU bottleneck, so you should at least be able to get to 60fps I'd imagine.

my objective is to stream at more than 60fps and when im not streaming play at 144hz do you think the r7 3700x can do it in most of the games?

[LogicWeasel]

5 minutes ago, Rui Xavier said:

my objective is to stream at more than 60fps and when im not streaming play at 144hz do you think the r7 3700x can do it in most of the games?

As already stated, that's far more up to your GPU pick and the game.  Is that a good CPU to remove your egregious CPU bottleneck?  Yes!  It's the best CPU for $300 for doing both gaming and streaming.  If you didn't plan to stream at all and wanted something around 3-5% more fps we'd have said to go Intel.

CPU's aren't ultimately responsible for drawing frames, they're just the middle-man and they just need to keep the GPU well-fed to not become a bottleneck.  Your pairing of a cheap CPU (the 7100 is more of a low-end office desktop CPU than gaming) with the RTX 2060 is what created a bottleneck.  Now it just needs to be replaced.

[Rui Xavier]

1 minute ago, LogicWeasel said:

As already stated, that's far more up to your GPU pick and the game.  Is that a good CPU to remove your egregious CPU bottleneck?  Yes!  It's the best CPU for $300 for doing both gaming and streaming.  If you didn't plan to stream at all and wanted something around 3-5% more fps we'd have said to go Intel.

Well in that case ill go for the r7 3700x thanks for all the help

[Mick Naughty]

So you are gonna encode with the cpu instead of the gpu? More cores should help but gonna come down to the settings. I think bitwit just did a video about it. Dedicating cores to the stream and the rest to the game. Would be the best bet. 

Streaming means putting the stream quality first over gameplay. Unless you have a following that’s gonna watch even if it looks like a ps1 game.