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At stock speeds, the R5 1600 beats the 8350k, overclock the R5 1600 gets you a good performance boost, when the 8350k is overclocked to say 4.8GHz for example, it nearly has identical performance to an i5-8400 at stock speeds. Honestly, overclocking the 8350k to insanly high overclocks like 4.8-5.0GHz to gain a little bit of performance isnt worth it considering that you have to factor in the cost of sufficient cooling to keep the CPU at stabe temps when overclocking and the performance bump isnt too much to say a "little bit of an increase" in performance. From benchmarks, the 8350k when overclocked to 4.8GHz delivers about a 10fps advantage to a R5 1600 OCed to 4.0GHz, the fps increase can be a little bit more in some other games. The 10fps advantage in games might be noticable, or wont be at all, if the R5 1600 is the same price as the 8350k, then get it, delivers solid gaming performance and also does well in productivity workloads as well. +Zen 2 is supported on the AM4 platform and will provide better performance when its released. B350 motherboards are also cheaper, you get the included wraith cooler (might get around a 3.7GHz overclock; 3.8GHz stable, can also get an aftermarket cooler for $30 (suggestions: CRYORIG H7/hyper 212 evo) ) and some good DDR4 memory.

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Right now thr i3 8350k is around the same price as an r5 1600 and i want to know which one is better for gaming at 1080p with a 1060 6gb and 16gb of ram.

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go with the R5 1600 for "future proofing"

 

the i3 8350K is a bad buy when you pay a bit more for the i5 8400

 

some game like the Assassins Creed origins may struggle with the quad core

 

 

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Only gaming? I rather take the i5 8400, 7700k like performance in games

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the 1600 would be better than the 8350k, but for the same price you can get an i5 8400 which will perform better than the 1600 so either the 8400 if you can afford the z370 board of the 1600 if you can't.

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I went from Ryzen 1700 to 8600k because I was lacking single core performance for MMORPG games.

I don't regreat a thing yet since Black Desert Online is giving me 50-60 fps now comapred to 25-40 before (in towns).

 

But in that case I'm not sure which one to get. i3 8350k is slower than Ryzen 1600 in multicore speed. And not marginally slowwer so it's a hard choise xD

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17 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

the 1600 would be better than the 8350k, but for the same price you can get an i5 8400 which will perform better than the 1600 so either the 8400 if you can afford the z370 board of the 1600 if you can't.

On amazon.co.uk the price of the 8400 is £100 more than the r5 1600

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1600 if you need it now as the boards are cheaper and the availability is better (also includes a very good stock cooler) 
8350 if you want that extra edge in per core performance , has less cores/threads tho and needs rather expensive X370 boards as those are the only available 

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8 minutes ago, GrandMushroom5 said:

On amazon.co.uk the price of the 8400 is £100 more than the r5 1600

Then r5 1600

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No. The 8350K outperforms the Ryzen when gaming in every way.

 

Try an 8th gen i5 6 core if you want to future proof, as games will start using 6 cores etc.

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30 minutes ago, userzero said:

The coffee lake i3 all day long.

 

Let me google that for you anyway http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-8350K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-1600/3935vs3919

No way.

The i3 is only 4core 4 thread. So its basically a i5-7600k.

 

Stock speeds sure. Old games sure. But new games? Overclocked? the 1600 kills it.

 

The ryzen motherboard is also cheaper and comes with a much better CPU cooler, giving you more room to get some nice DDR4.

Insert ram related question here: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1197132-setting-ram-speed-xmp-docp-for-dummies/

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No. Single thread speed is what counts in gaming. And this is for gaming.

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At stock speeds, the R5 1600 beats the 8350k, overclock the R5 1600 gets you a good performance boost, when the 8350k is overclocked to say 4.8GHz for example, it nearly has identical performance to an i5-8400 at stock speeds. Honestly, overclocking the 8350k to insanly high overclocks like 4.8-5.0GHz to gain a little bit of performance isnt worth it considering that you have to factor in the cost of sufficient cooling to keep the CPU at stabe temps when overclocking and the performance bump isnt too much to say a "little bit of an increase" in performance. From benchmarks, the 8350k when overclocked to 4.8GHz delivers about a 10fps advantage to a R5 1600 OCed to 4.0GHz, the fps increase can be a little bit more in some other games. The 10fps advantage in games might be noticable, or wont be at all, if the R5 1600 is the same price as the 8350k, then get it, delivers solid gaming performance and also does well in productivity workloads as well. +Zen 2 is supported on the AM4 platform and will provide better performance when its released. B350 motherboards are also cheaper, you get the included wraith cooler (might get around a 3.7GHz overclock; 3.8GHz stable, can also get an aftermarket cooler for $30 (suggestions: CRYORIG H7/hyper 212 evo) ) and some good DDR4 memory.

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1 minute ago, userzero said:

No. Single thread speed is what counts in gaming. And this is for gaming.

4c/4thread chips choke in modern games especially at higher refresh rates. Overclocked ryzen with nice memory clock speeds gives a much smoother a consistent gaming experience across all titles. You would have to be stupid to buy the i3. imo.

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23 minutes ago, userzero said:

The coffee lake i3 all day long.

 

Let me google that for you anyway http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-8350K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-1600/3935vs3919

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I’d try to get an i5 8400. If you cant, the 1600 will do you fine. 

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