Tread ripper 1900x

[lonely_sata_cable]

Ok so ive already had money set aside for changing to the x299 platform but then i was thinking why dont i go to tread ripper side of things but my main thing is that Intel has always had better per core performance and until ryzen came out i havent really cared much about the amd side but tread ripper im not to sure about. im gonna be playing games from time to time so thats why imma be using the 1900x ( not to mention cheaper) but is the thread ripper going to hurt my performance to much i have a 1070 for gpu and 16gb of ddr4 just wondering. and im not saying that x299 isnt gonna hurt my performance but what kind of a difference are we looking at.

[Zando_]

What res/refresh rate do you play at? I have an X58 Xeon (I think the IPC is 10% or so worse than Ryzen, maybe more) with a 980 Ti (basically a 1070) and it's fine at 1080p ultra in all my games (mainly ARMA 3 and Battlefront). So TR should be a bit better. 

[just_dave]

1900X is pretty bad choice for purely gaming.

The X299 chips (minimally 7800X, 7820X) perform similiarly to classic Ryzen because of the crappy Mesh interconnect that has higher overall latency than CCX, so they aren't really for gaming even though they have slightly higher per core performance.

I'd take 1800X or room heater for gaming.

[lonely_sata_cable]

thats good to hear. i have a 1440 100hz monitor so 100hz. ive been able to hit that really good with the games ive been play ( space engineer gtav) 

 

Im not gonna be just playing games im gonna be getting in some productivity as well but its nothing professional and im only keeping one computer so im trying to find the happy medium between gaming and productivity.

[just_dave]

5 minutes ago, lonely_sata_cable said:

thats good to hear. i have a 1440 100hz monitor so 100hz. ive been able to hit that really good with the games ive been play ( space engineer gtav) 

 

Im not gonna be just playing games im gonna be getting in some productivity as well but its nothing professional and im only keeping one computer so im trying to find the happy medium between gaming and productivity.

I'd take R7 1800X + decent X370

It does perform good in gaming and good in productivity. It is a beast when OCd to 4.1 or 4.2GHz.

100Hz shouldn't be a problem, check how the games are optimized but i think it should be OK

Check with other users who play these games on Ryzen, i am bit worried about the GTA V

[TahoeDust]