Productivity/Gaming CPU Needed

[Galion]

Did I make the wrong choice going with the 2600?

My cousin was reading a article saying that the 8400 is better for gaming and single core workload, 

I do some simple video editing and background editing for my uncle e-hardware store ads and videos. 

And lots of AAA gaming and emulator games 

This was my first AMD build sorry

[mikedrewsmy]

Performance wise for single and quad core would be almost the same for the 2600 and the 8400.
The Ryzen 2600 excels even further at multi-core scoring.

And you can actually overclock the living hell out of the ryzen.
You've made a good choice.

Unless its the 8600/8600k, then the single & quad core scoring would be much better than the 2600.

 

[Origami Cactus]

No the r5 2600 is also a very solid choice, especially for work tasks.

Also in gaming it is pretty same, because they both have the same boost clock, but amd can be overclocked, so i would argue that the r5 2600 is a better choice than the 8400.

[Galion]

5 minutes ago, mikedrewsmy said:

Performance wise for single and quad core would be almost the same for the 2600 and the 8400.
The Ryzen 2600 excels even further at multi-core scoring.

And you can actually overclock the living hell out of the ryzen.
You've made a good choice.

Unless its the 8600/8600k, then the single & quad core scoring would be much better than the 2600.

 

 

3 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

No the r5 2600 is also a very solid choice, especially for work tasks.

Also in gaming it is pretty same, because they both have the same boost clock, but amd can be overclocked, so i would argue that the r5 2600 is a better choice than the 8400.

Thank you guys?

[FuzzyLogic]

I have a Ryzen 5 1600, and I can agree that 6 cores is amazing for productivity and gaming.

[Taf the Ghost]

41 minutes ago, Galion said:

Did I make the wrong choice going with the 2600?

My cousin was reading a article saying that the 8400 is better for gaming and single core workload, 

I do some simple video editing and background editing for my uncle e-hardware store ads and videos. 

And lots of AAA gaming and emulator games 

This was my first AMD build sorry

Your cousin needs to find better information sources.

 

The only place, in gaming, you're going to find any difference is if you're running a 1080 Ti and specific games that leverage something about Intel's hardware a little better. If there's issues with emulators, that's normally an AMD GPU issue because they deprecated OpenGL support.