Gaming CPU needed

[KingBlue72]

I am building a mid/high end gaming pc. I am interested in the i5 8400 but I was wondering what the AMD equivilent of that is and if it is worth considering.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Whats the full build? Budget? The amd equ is the ryzen 2600 or 2600x

[itisme911]

4 minutes ago, KingBlue72 said:

I am building a mid/high end gaming pc. I am interested in the i5 8400 but I was wondering what the AMD equivilent of that is and if it is worth considering.

if its just for gaming go intel, if you want to stream/video edit/ etc its more complicated but trends towards AMD

[Zedrywith]

Depends on your budget

[KarathKasun]

i5-8400 is equivalent to a R5 1600/2600 in gaming.  The Intel chip does not hold any significant lead in games because it is not clocked very high.  Intel's only advantage in gaming is in their very high clocked CPUs or their overclockable ones.

 

In games the difference between the i5-8400 and R5 2600 is less than 5%.  However, the R5 2600 is 50% faster in any task that can use more threads.

[PopsicleHustler]

It also depending on games you play. Some games like BF1/BF5 or Cities Skylines benefit a lot from additional cores on AMD CPUs.

[KingBlue72]

33 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Whats the full build? Budget? The amd equ is the ryzen 2600 or 2600x

https://se.pcpartpicker.com/list/sn6WJ8

here is the full build. I want to stay around the same price

[KingBlue72]

3 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

It also depending on games you play. Some games like BF1/BF5 or Cities Skylines benefit a lot from additional cores on AMD CPUs.

So, AMD for newer titles?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, KingBlue72 said:

https://se.pcpartpicker.com/list/sn6WJ8

here is the full build. I want to stay around the same price

for gaming that looks, I don't see anything to chang here. Get a ssd if you don't have one already.

[KingBlue72]

16 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

i5-8400 is equivalent to a R5 1600/2600 in gaming.  The Intel chip does not hold any significant lead in games because it is not clocked very high.  Intel's only advantage in gaming is in their very high clocked CPUs or their overclockable ones.

 

In games the difference between the i5-8400 and R5 2600 is less than 5%.  However, the R5 2600 is 50% faster in any task that can use more threads.

Any examples of tasks that use more threads?

 

[KarathKasun]

5 minutes ago, KingBlue72 said:

Any examples of tasks that use more threads?

 

Video transcoding/encoding.

Some newer games, many seem to be heading toward more threads.

Multitasking (Game + Browser can sometimes benefit from high core counts now that FF/Chrome can use multiple threads)

Most digital art medium; audio, video, photo editing, 3d modeling/rendering, epic spreadsheets (if you consider complex maths to be art I guess)

[KingBlue72]

22 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

i5-8400 is equivalent to a R5 1600/2600 in gaming.  The Intel chip does not hold any significant lead in games because it is not clocked very high.  Intel's only advantage in gaming is in their very high clocked CPUs or their overclockable ones.

 

In games the difference between the i5-8400 and R5 2600 is less than 5%.  However, the R5 2600 is 50% faster in any task that can use more threads.

isn't the r5 1600 abd r5 2600 to comppletely different cpus?

[KarathKasun]

2 minutes ago, KingBlue72 said:

isn't the r5 1600 abd r5 2600 to comppletely different cpus?

Both have very similar performance and overclock to within ~7% of each other.

 

R5 2600 is better out of the box with no tweaking though.

[KingBlue72]

3 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Both have very similar performance and overclock to within ~7% of each other.

 

R5 2600 is better out of the box with no tweaking though.

oh okay thanks