Gaming/Productivity CPU Neeeded

[Laney2000]

I'm planning on upgrading my rig's CPU, currently i have an i5-6400 paired with 16 GB of DDR4 corsair vengeance and a GTX 970 FE. I am just wondering which CPU to go with as i have only ever been with intel however ryzen is cheaper and seems better. I plan to game on it mostly and spend the rest of my time doing 3D modelling and rendering mainly on blender, i just really need to know if Ryzen is still far behind intel and whether i'll have any issues or notice any performance drops if i do go with ryzen over intel, thanks in advance

 

[GoldenLag]

For your usecase the 2700x will be the better choice. There still is some difference between them in gaming, but it is not noticable unless you have an fps counter in front of you

[Laney2000]

Just now, GoldenLag said:

For your usecase the 2700x will be the better choice. There still is some difference between them in gaming, but it is not noticable unless you have an fps counter in front of you

thanks for the quick reply, any chance you could tell me if upgrading to a 2700x would bottleneck me too bad with a 970 FE?

[GoldenLag]

1 minute ago, Laney2000 said:

thanks for the quick reply, any chance you could tell me if upgrading to a 2700x would bottleneck me too bad with a 970 FE?

Its shouldnt bottleneck at all. Some titles like CS:GO may do so, but thats to be expected by CS:GO.

 

And the performance difference i was reffering between the 8700k and the 2700x.

[Agonizel]

2 minutes ago, Laney2000 said:

upgrading to a 2700x would bottleneck me too bad with a 970 FE

A 2700X will not bottleneck any current GPU. When gaming, GPUs are optimally used when at 100% (while having beautiful graphical fidelity with +60fps).

[AnalogCanavity]

13 minutes ago, Laney2000 said:

I'm planning on upgrading my rig's CPU, currently i have an i5-6400 paired with 16 GB of DDR4 corsair vengeance and a GTX 970 FE. I am just wondering which CPU to go with as i have only ever been with intel however ryzen is cheaper and seems better. I plan to game on it mostly and spend the rest of my time doing 3D modelling and rendering mainly on blender, i just really need to know if Ryzen is still far behind intel and whether i'll have any issues or notice any performance drops if i do go with ryzen over intel, thanks in advance

 

R7 2700X

[DocSwag]

2700x or 2600/x if you don't want to pay as much.

 

Compared to an i5 6400 you won't see any difference even in gaming unless you have a 1080 ti at 1080p and are running titles that don't run well at all on Ryzen (such as CS:GO)

[.Apex.]

43 minutes ago, Laney2000 said:

I'm planning on upgrading my rig's CPU, currently i have an i5-6400 paired with 16 GB of DDR4 corsair vengeance and a GTX 970 FE. I am just wondering which CPU to go with as i have only ever been with intel however ryzen is cheaper and seems better. I plan to game on it mostly and spend the rest of my time doing 3D modelling and rendering mainly on blender, i just really need to know if Ryzen is still far behind intel and whether i'll have any issues or notice any performance drops if i do go with ryzen over intel, thanks in advance

 

i think you should save your money and just go for the i7-6700K, it's still a gaming beast, and 3D modeling uses GPU anyway.

[.Apex.]

3 minutes ago, syn2112 said:

i think you should save your money and just go for the i7-6700K, it's still a gaming beast, and 3D modeling uses GPU anyway.

oops i forgot that the 7700K is also supported by a BIOS update, go for the 7700K then