Streaming, Ryzen 1700 or Intel 8700k

[DELTAprime]

Long story short I'm interested in the streaming while gaming performance of the 8700k vs the Ryzen 7 CPUs. Anyone know of any good sources or have first hand experience as to the performance difference between the two CPU's? ie: been able to use higher x264 encoding with frame drops.

[TrigrH]

8700k is faster than all the ryzen cpus at almost everything, but the cost of the motherboard is more.

[Dagnis]

It is my understanding that the 8700k would be better. However, it is nearly impossible to get it at this time. Not to mention more expensive. Up to you how you weigh those two factors. 

[kladzen]

well the ryzen have 8 cores vs intel 6 cores.. so you will be able to do higher bitrate with a lower preset on a ryzen CPU where the intel would be bottlenecked. I think gamer nexus already did a test like this that shows issues with the intel CPU in certain games.. however it really depends on 2 things.. 1. What are your streaming settings 2. what game are you playing

[DELTAprime]

23 hours ago, kladzen said:

I think gamer nexus already did a test like this

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Unfortunately for my love of AMD it looks like the 8700k is a better CPU in the specific realm of steaming gameplay. I was hoping to ditch Intel and go AMD but the 8700k only falters under an unrealistic torture test.

[VicBar]

3 minutes ago, DELTAprime said:

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Unfortunately for my love of AMD it looks like the 8700k is a better CPU in the specific realm of steaming gameplay. I was hoping to ditch Intel and go AMD but the 8700k only falters under an unrealistic torture test.

 

 Yes here it is!

[Princess Luna]

QuickSync and the iGPU have been further optimized for streaming, the i7 8700k will be superior at a higher cost, simple as that.

[Aw_Ginger_Snapz]

This is solely based on preference. What streaming software do you plan on using? I've been running a R7 1700 since its launch, and I have no regrets. (Keep in mind I hop back and forth between shadowplay and OBS). Having the 4 extra threads on Ryzen can come in handy in a few scenarios like having a browser open, music player, file manager, task manager, and your streaming software on a second monitor while playing a game on the other. I do this quite often so I can micromanage the shit out of my stream. Honestly, it comes down to what your willing to spend. Both CPUs are very capable, and both are gonna get the job done very well.

[kladzen]

18 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

QuickSync and the iGPU have been further optimized for streaming, the i7 8700k will be superior at a higher cost, simple as that.

quicksync is a joke in the terms of quality.... same goes with nvidia nvenc/shadowplay for live streaming...

 

x264 beats all of these... yes the others are a good alternatives if you CPU is limited and you can use the igpu or nvidia hardware encoder.... but if you have the horsepower for x264 software i would ditch the others straight away...

[Zeitec]

On 09/10/2017 at 6:39 AM, DELTAprime said:

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Unfortunately for my love of AMD it looks like the 8700k is a better CPU in the specific realm of steaming gameplay. I was hoping to ditch Intel and go AMD but the 8700k only falters under an unrealistic torture test.

If you want to go AMD the 1700 certainly isn't a BAD option. You could even upgrade to Zen 2 in 2019 if you were so inclined.