Should I wait for Ryzen 2700X?

[mcast]

I read some estimated performance figures after googling:

Single thread
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 4785 points
Intel Core i7-8700K 5405 points

Multi thread
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 39723 points
Intel Core i7-8700K 30891 points

I will be buying a 1080 and a 34" aw3418dw ultra wide. I'm a mmo player with sometimes multiple windows, I very rarely play FPS games. What would be better suited to having a couple of mmo windows and maybe watching a movie/youtube at the same time, 8700k or 2700X?

Thanks.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

I read some estimated performance figures after googling:

Single thread
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 4785 points
Intel Core i7-8700K 5405 points

Multi thread
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 39723 points
Intel Core i7-8700K 30891 points

I will be buying a 1080 and a 34" aw3418dw ultra wide. I'm a mmo player with sometimes multiple windows, I very rarely play FPS games. What would be better suited to having a couple of mmo windows and maybe watching a movie/youtube at the same time, 8700k or 2700X?

Thanks.

technically 8700k is still the fastest chip for gaming - but seems you'll be doing a lot of multitasking or multiple MMO accounts on one go so 2700x looks to be the better buy, specially if even more is happening in the back ground .
X470 launch should go a lot more smoother then X370 before but always expect some hiccups within the first month or 2 - looks to overclock nicely which should help MMO that rely on clock speed over thread count.

 

[Glanza]

Depends which MMO you play, if it's older ones like WoW and GW2 then they don't make use all of all the cores due to engine limitations.

 

[4K8KW10]

Depends which MMO you play, if it's older ones like WoW and GW2 then they don't make use all of all the cores due to engine limitations.

At the same pricing, always take the processor with more hardware resources. 8-core / 16-thread >>> 6-core / 12-thread.

And wait for the software to be fixed - all software that works normally, the 8-core processor will be faster.

You can't buy a hardware because the software lags in development.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Depends which MMO you play, if it's older ones like WoW and GW2 then they don't make use all of all the cores due to engine limitations.

At the same pricing, always take the processor with more hardware resources. 8-core / 16-thread >>> 6-core / 12-thread.

And wait for the software to be fixed - all software that works normally, the 8-core processor will be faster.

You can't buy a hardware because the software lags in development.

wow new expansion is allow CPUs with more threads to be used better- seems graphics has had a big overhaul to.

But not all older MMO with have their 'software FIXED' ... they dont need to be fixed. run fine for their target audience - looking at multiple hardware surveys including steam's, 4 threads are still loading the hardware share by a long shot and not going to change anytime soon .

both chips will have their pro's and cons and both could be used well in the above for different reasons

 

[Glanza]

I will say GW2 got smoother for me when I upgraded to more cores.

 

[TeraVirus]

Ryzen for multitasking, it's getting better with each release and closing the single core performance gap it has against Intel.

Plus, you can always upgrade to Zen 2 in 2019 and still keep your board and RAM.

 

[C-Roy]

I'd wait for reviews of the 2700x before making any decision.