Ryzen or Intel

[Matthew_EWaring]

Im planning on building a new PC but I am stuck on choosing between an Intel CPU or a Ryzen CPU. I know that gaming performance on the Ryzen Chips are not as good as the Intel Chips but apparently, current games are not optimized for the Ryzen Chips which makes me think that I should a Ryzen CPU as performance will increase overtime.

[PCGuy_5960]

Which GPU are you using?

[Matthew_EWaring]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

Which GPU are you using?

Stuck between 1070 or 1080

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, Matthew_EWaring said:

Stuck between 1070 or 1080

at 1440p or 4k i would go for ryzen. 

[PCGuy_5960]

3 minutes ago, Matthew_EWaring said:

Stuck between 1070 or 1080

Get a 7700K then, it is better in games.

[Imakuni]

7 minutes ago, Matthew_EWaring said:

Im planning on building a new PC but I am stuck on choosing between an Intel CPU or a Ryzen CPU. I know that gaming performance on the Ryzen Chips are not as good as the Intel Chips but apparently, current games are not optimized for the Ryzen Chips which makes me think that I should a Ryzen CPU as performance will increase overtime.

What is your plan? Pure gaming? Then go 7700 / 7700k, no questions asked.

 

If you're doing somehting else, though, then Ryzen might be worth some more consideration...

[Matthew_EWaring]

1 minute ago, Imakuni said:

What is your plan? Pure gaming? Then go 7700 / 7700k, no questions asked.

Yeah it pretty much gaming based with a few bits of photoshop here and there. Is a 7700/7700k really needed?

[PCGuy_5960]

1 minute ago, Matthew_EWaring said:

Yeah it pretty much gaming based with a few bits of photoshop here and there. Is a 7700/7700k really needed?

The 7700K is much better for photoshop because of its single core performance

[Imakuni]

Just now, Matthew_EWaring said:

Yeah it pretty much gaming based with a few bits of photoshop here and there. Is a 7700/7700k really needed?

Neither are "needed", but if you're getting a 1070/1080, a 7700 (non k) would be a good fit. The k one is a bit of a luxury; get it if you can, it's a nice CPU to have. Otherwise, a 7700 is already good enough to get you by.

[Matthew_EWaring]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

The 7700K is much better for photoshop because of its single core performance

im not to bothered about the performance on photoshop as even with my 4690k, I dont see any problems so I would just go with the 7700k just to save money

[Matthew_EWaring]

2 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Neither are "needed", but if you're getting a 1070/1080, a 7700 (non k) would be a good fit. The k one is a bit of a luxury; get it if you can, it's a nice CPU to have. Otherwise, a 7700 is already good enough to get you by.

Yeah, I think I would just go with the non k as I doubt I would need to do any overclocking with it

[Damascus]

Go ryzen, the lga 1151 platform is on its last legs.  AM4 has garruteed support for 4 years so it will be relevant much longer.

[The Benjamins]

I think it is better to get a Ryzen 5 and a 1080 over a 7700k and a 1070 (should be about the same cost give or take) I dont get this 7700k trend lately, just spend more on the GPU and save on the CPU. 

 

7700k is only useful if you are doing 144hz gaming or already getting a 1080ti.

[Matthew_EWaring]

I think I will probably just go with a ryzen chip as I feel it will get better overtime.

[Dackzy]

Ryzen has the better lows, which is just as important if not more important that average FPS, plus an R5 would allow you to do more multi-core heavy things in the future if you wish to do so.

[ClippTube]

i7.

[Matthew_EWaring]

9 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

Ryzen has the better lows, which is just as important if not more important that average FPS, plus an R5 would allow you to do more multi-core heavy things in the future if you wish to do so.

Yeah and then hopefully when game developers start taking advantage of hyperyhreading, I will have that to use aswell

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, Matthew_EWaring said:

Yeah and then hopefully when game developers start taking advantage of hyperyhreading, I will have that to use aswell

 

Well, a lot of games can already use 8 cores and such, they just don't have them optimized that well. Until they have you can enjoy multitasking without worrying about having enough cores for it to not impact your game. Though I do recommend going 1440p or 4k with ryzen

[Matthew_EWaring]

12 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

Well, a lot of games can already use 8 cores and such, they just don't have them optimized that well. Until they have you can enjoy multitasking without worrying about having enough cores for it to not impact your game. Though I do recommend going 1440p or 4k with ryzen

I've just remembered aswell that I am going to wait until vega is released to see if they compete with the 1070 or 80

[Dackzy]

2 minutes ago, Matthew_EWaring said:

I've just remembered aswell that I am going to wait until vega is released to see if they compete with the 1070 or 80

 

vega should compete with those cards