Need help deciding on new system specs

[gareththomas]

Hi everyone,

i am planning out a new build and I am looking for advice for the cpu platform that I base it on. I am an engineering student so I do Libra of cad and computational simulation which benefit from multithreaded performance. But also need this pc to be able to game. Would the core i7/i9 be better for this or would amd rysen 2 be better ? Currently running an old amd 8core without hyper threading. 

Thank you for any help that can be provided.

[Vandorlot]

Threadripper would be better than core i9.

Ryzen 7 would usually be better than i7 in multi threaded workloads but it would perform worse in games.

If you have the budget Threadripper plus a quadro. Specifically im talking about the 1920x which ahs great value or the 1950x. The 1900x isnt worth it.

I9 is good but threadripper beats every i9 except for the 2000 dollar i9 which is double its price and only beats it by a little bit.

[SpencerC]

If computational multithreading is what you are chasing after, the 2700x and Threadripper series offers immense computing power for the money.

[Vandorlot]

The rx580 and vega lineup beat all of nvidias geforce cards. The p1000-p6000 are the best options. Even the p1000 is great as seen in this video.

 

[SpencerC]

Just now, Vandorlot said:

Threadripper would be better than core i9.

Ryzen 7 would usually be better than i7 in multi threaded workloads but it would perform worse in games.

If you have the budget Threadripper plus a quadro. Specifically im talking about the 1920x which ahs great value or the 1950x. The 1900x isnt worth it.

I9 is good but threadripper beats every i9 except for the 2000 dollar i9 which is double its price and only beats it by a little bit.

Ehh, 10-12% gaming difference isn't really that bad and is a definite improvement over 1st gen Ryzen. I hate when people say "Ryzen sucks for gaming" because it really doesn't. Especially with the launch of the 2000 series, the gap between Intel and AMD has narrowed quite well.

[Vandorlot]

5 minutes ago, SpencerC said:

Ehh, 10-12% gaming difference isn't really that bad and is a definite improvement over 1st gen Ryzen. I hate when people say "Ryzen sucks for gaming" because it really doesn't. Especially with the launch of the 2000 series, the gap between Intel and AMD has narrowed quite well.

First off I agree completly with you on the gaming difference part, it isn't far behind but it is still worse. Also the 2000 series has a pretty small performance increase over 1st gen. I hope 3rd gen has a bigger improvment and that it will be supported on b350 boards so I can upgrade. It is called ryzen 2 instead of ryzen plus so I have my hopes up.

[TahoeDust]

17 minutes ago, gareththomas said:

Hi everyone,

i am planning out a new build and I am looking for advice for the cpu platform that I base it on. I am an engineering student so I do Libra of cad and computational simulation which benefit from multithreaded performance. But also need this pc to be able to game. Would the core i7/i9 be better for this or would amd rysen 2 be better ? Currently running an old amd 8core without hyper threading. 

Thank you for any help that can be provided.

Are the programs you are using truely capable of taking advantage of 12+ cores?

[gareththomas]

the main CFD program i use is ANSYS which can utilise 12+ cores but i think going to thread ripper might be a tad over kill. Hence the thought to go Ryzen.