i5-9600KF vs 5 3600

[TTwerty]

Hi,

 

i5-9600KF and ryzen 5 3600 are almost the same price in my region (belgium).

Only thing it's really going to be used for is gaming.

 

Any reason to pick the one over the other?

[Fasauceome]

hard to pick against the Ryzen 5 3600. Great 144Hz performance, much cheaper motherboards for overclocking and feature set, better memory speed support, and you don't get locked into a CPU generation when you buy it.

[Flying Sausages]

r5 3600 because 6 core and 12 thread and am4 upgradable to 3900x in a year or two in second hands.

[TTwerty]

12 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

hard to pick against the Ryzen 5 3600. Great 144Hz performance, much cheaper motherboards for overclocking and feature set, better memory speed support, and you don't get locked into a CPU generation when you buy it.

Didn't think about the ram speeds, thanks.

 

Do you think the 2-3 frames advantage of the 9600KF would be gone if you put in slower ram?

Instead of a 5 3600 with faster ram in comparison?

[Fasauceome]

8 minutes ago, TTwerty said:

Do you think the 2-3 frames advantage of the 9600KF would be gone if you put in slower ram?

Instead of a 5 3600 with faster ram in comparison?

there are more factors at play, but ultimately I think the advantages in games will shift from title to title, the 3600 is ahead in some and the 9600k in others

[Jurrunio]

Ryzen's mutlicore performance advantage also helps with frame rate stability. As for exploits running trains on Intel CPUs over and over again, "fixes" dropping performance bit by bit...

[NumLock21]

Ryzen 5 for its cores and threads.

[amdorintel]

intel pulls way less power

[Cyan101]

Has anything really changed on this front? looking to buy one of these CPUs soon and unsure which, same as OP where its mostly for gaming but I do have discord and chrome running actively in the background while I game 

[Mister Woof]

Another 3600 vote here.