I5 or I7 gaming?

[Robin Gregg]

Hi Guys,

Was just wandering if the I7 is now a worthy gaming CPU over the I5 or is Ryzen now the go to chip?

 

[Robin Gregg]

Your choices are
AMD - 8 core Ryzen refresh due in 2 weeks or less
INTEL - 6 core as a minimum but really should be looking at the incoming Intel 8 core if you're wanting to future proof yourself.

With more and more developers seeing the multi cores available, they will be using more and more cores as time goes on. 8 cores is the future proof sweet spot if you're wanting to keep the hardware for a few years.

I haven't heard of the intel 8 core I know the I9 is out at silly monies. Any idea's on when the new chip is due?

 

[Robin Gregg]

i7-7820X is 8 core...

i9 is available as 10/12/14/16/18 core.

Oh wow that one snuck up on me, I'm assuming that's 8 physical 16 threads?

But but 4k card just cause that white glove trick sounds awesome.

Just though I'd mention I'm fellow 1440p and 4k @60Hz gamer running a MSI 980TI

 

[Robin Gregg]

Thanks guys lots of food for thought

 

[Robin Gregg]

to cut through the chaff it goes ingaming only i7/i5/ryzens.in that order.you cut put the i9 in front of them all but you are mentioning i5s/i7s so that doesnt seem to be your budget.the newest i5s beat any ryzen ingames and thats the £150 version nevermind anything quicker.

Thanks Dg

 

[Robin Gregg]

Games have been using 8 threads for some time now and some engines scale well past 16.

I can vouch for 4 threads being used as my readout from the MSI afterburner shows stats of all 4 cores being smashed whilst gaming.