Ryzen 7 vs Intel i7

[Vek1313]

I'm putting together a parts list for a friend. He is going to be doing gaming, video editing, graphics design, streaming, and such. For a budget around $1000 USD for the system, which processor would you recommend?

[rn8686]

R7, would be much better than a 7700k for streaming, editing and rendering. 

[Klovnious]

Pretty much Ryzen 1700X/1800X or the 7900X from Intel, but that costs like 999$... I would go for the 1800X

[Damascus]

1 minute ago, Klovnious said:

Pretty much Ryzen 1700X/1800X or the 7900X from Intel, but that costs like 999$... I would go for the 1800X

wat.  Why get an X variant?  On a lower budget just get the 1700, 0.1-0.2mhz is the only meaningless difference

[NoMercy]

24 minutes ago, kdmb13 said:

I'm putting together a parts list for a friend. He is going to be doing gaming, video editing, graphics design, streaming, and such. For a budget around $1000 USD for the system, which processor would you recommend?

Probably 1700, but if you want to have better graphic card within the same budget, then maybe 1600 is sufficient for you, then you can buy a better graphic card.

 

Edit: maybe you can list down all the parts you have chosen so far in pcpp, and we can help you in overall and still within the budget.

[Vek1313]

5 minutes ago, NoMercy said:

Probably 1700, but if you want to have better graphic card within the same budget, then maybe 1600 is sufficient for you, then you can buy a better graphic card.

 

Edit: maybe you can list down all the parts you have chosen so far in pcpp, and we can help you in overall and still within the budget.

I mean kinda set on the 1700 and I have it paired with a 1060 6 GB

[Speaker1264]

$1000 is a little low budget for all the tasks described.  I would at minimum get an R7 1700, 32 GB of ram, and a 500 GB m.2 SSD.  Right there alone is like 75% of your budget.  Also what games and resolutions is he playing games on?  Does he want 4k 60fps or 1440p 144fps at ultra settings?  In that case he would need something like a 1080 Ti as well, which puts the budget already at $1500 without PSU, case, and motherboard.

[Arika]

Mainly gaming, productively/streaming second: 7700k

Mainly productively/streaming, gaming second: Ryzen

[Klovnious]

Figured the 1800x is better for video editing, graphics design, and streaming. But looking at the benchmarks there's not very much difference, if any lol 

[NoMercy]

2 minutes ago, kdmb13 said:

I mean kinda set on the 1700 and I have it paired with a 1060 6 GB

Sure, then go ahead with 1700. Just so you know your system bottleneck will be at 1060 for gaming. You might want to look at this next time you upgrade.

[Guest]

R5 1600 is a good option

[Speaker1264]

You could go for a cheaper motherboard, or cheaper ssd, but the budget is kind of low for all said tasks.  I would try saving up a little more cash.  The only reason for the m.2 ssd is because I've heard from people that it makes scrubbing through video very fast.  If he's doing a lot of video editing work then he will probably like to have that.  He could also downgrade to the 250GB version if he wants to save some cash.  That's not really a choice I can make for him.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($197.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: MSI - B350 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($129.99 @ B&H) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($121.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($234.00 @ B&H) 
Video Card: *Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card  ($274.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Deepcool - TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA - 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($41.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1040.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-25 03:33 EDT-0400

[rn8686]

14 minutes ago, NoMercy said:

Sure, then go ahead with 1700. Just so you know your system bottleneck will be at 1060 for gaming. You might want to look at this next time you upgrade.

Dont see how a 1600 would bottleneck, there is very little performance difference in gaming between them. 

[Speaker1264]

22 minutes ago, NoMercy said:

Just so you know your system bottleneck will be at 1060 for gaming.

 

I'm not sure this is even a coherent sentence.  Are you saying the 1700 is a bottleneck, are you saying the 1060 will be the bottleneck, or did you mean 1080, as in he won't be able to play at higher than 1080 resolution for gaming?

 

5 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Dont see how a 1600 would bottleneck, there is very little performance difference in gaming between them. 

 

He never mentioned the 1600.

[NoMercy]

5 minutes ago, Speaker1264 said:

 

I'm not sure this is even a coherent sentence.  Are you saying the 1700 is a bottleneck, are you saying the 1060 will be the bottleneck, or did you mean 1080, as in he won't be able to play at higher than 1080 resolution for gaming?

 

 

He never mentioned the 1600.

What i mean is if he is playing games using 1700+1060 with 70fps, and if he wants to have more fps than that, he should be looking to upgrade his graphic card to improve his fps.

[ravenshrike]

1 hour ago, Sierra Fox said:

Mainly gaming, productively/streaming second: 7700k

Mainly productively/streaming, gaming second: Ryzen

On a fixed budget, unless your gaming is primarily competitive twitch FPS and you have a decent monitor, the answer should always be Ryzen.

[jjohnthedon1]

5 hours ago, Sierra Fox said:

Mainly gaming, productively/streaming second: 7700k

Mainly productively/streaming, gaming second: Ryzen

7700k is crap for streaming