Best Ryzen CPU for VR?

[Sin Stalker]

I figure just looking at stock clockspeeds. I know people say you can overclock to where they all match but that's not a guarantee. I figure a 1700 that can OC to 4GHz would have been binned as a 1700x or 1800x.

 

So anyone have an idea what the best R7 or R5 is for use in VR gaming/? 

[Skiiwee29]

R5 1600 or R7 1700 would probably be the ideal choices. 

[Sin Stalker]

Just now, legacy99 said:

R5 1600 or R7 1700 would probably be the ideal choices. 

Can you give a little "why" with your "two-cents"?

 

[ZeusXI]

5 minutes ago, Sin Stalker said:

Can you give a little "why" with your "two-cents"?

 

more cores, great multi threading. i think VR games are going to be scaling with cores

[Skiiwee29]

They should alleviate any CPU bottleneck you would have with the 6 and 8 cores they provide. 

[Sin Stalker]

1 minute ago, ZeusXI said:

more cores, great multi threading. i think VR games are going to be scaling with cores

I don't understand . They both have different core counts. 

 

 

[imreloadin]

12 minutes ago, Sin Stalker said:

I figure just looking at stock clockspeeds. I know people say you can overclock to where they all match but that's not a guarantee. I figure a 1700 that can OC to 4GHz would have been binned as a 1700x or 1800x.

 

So anyone have an idea what the best R7 or R5 is for use in VR gaming/? 

The R7 1700 is currently selling for $299 on Newegg. You can get a pre-binned 1700 that is validated to 3.9GHz for $289 at SiliconLottery.

 

https://siliconlottery.com/collections/pga-1331/products/1700a39g

[ZeusXI]

Just now, Sin Stalker said:

I don't understand . They both have different core counts. 

 

 

ok. the intel 7700k has 4 physical cores. the amd 1600 has 6 physical cores, and then 1700 has 8 phisical cores. the 1700, is like 40-50$ USD cheaper than the 4 core 7700k.

 

 

[Sin Stalker]

2 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

The R7 1700 is currently selling for $299 on Newegg. You can get a pre-binned 1700 that is validated to 3.9GHz for $289 at SiliconLottery.

 

https://siliconlottery.com/collections/pga-1331/products/1700a39g

Just cause they could boot it to 3.9 doesn't mean its stable there.

[Sakkura]

As this article shows, there are binning differences but they are quite small if you're using anything short of LN2 cooling.

 

An R5 1600 should do the trick for VR.

[imreloadin]

19 minutes ago, Sin Stalker said:

Just cause they could boot it to 3.9 doesn't mean its stable there.

They run RealBench on a loop for an hour to validate it...but hey don't bother reading anything and just make assumptions

[Salacious B Crum]

41 minutes ago, Sin Stalker said:

Just cause they could boot it to 3.9 doesn't mean its stable there.

Um I really think they do more than that otherwise they would have no market

[Sin Stalker]

Just now, mrbilky said:

Um I really think they do more than that otherwise they would have no market

Maybe, but looking at their site, I see claims of testing but no guarantees. You'd think their warrranty would cover the cpu not being stable at their tested value... but I can't find it...

[Salacious B Crum]

4 minutes ago, Sin Stalker said:

Maybe, but looking at their site, I see claims of testing but no guarantees. You'd think their warrranty would cover the cpu not being stable at their tested value... but I can't find it...

You probably won't to many variables i.e. water cooled vs air cooled hardware such as motherboard and psu