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(Video) The i5 is Dead...Long Live the i5?
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An overclocked 2600K/2700K is still absolutely fine for 99.999% of games on the market, unless you're targeting a locked 144fps or something.
The reason why 4 core systems have started to struggle in modern games is that they are coded for consoles which have 8 core CPUs. A 4C/8T CPU with a good clock is still good enough in most cases (although older dual channel memory i7s might start to suffer from lack of memory bandwidth compared to newer ones with faster memory).
It's unlikely that 8C/16T CPUs will be struggling for quite a while as the games will still be targeting the console core count, which is unlikely to increase in the next 3-4 years.
It's unlikely that 8C/16T CPUs will be struggling for quite a while as the games will still be targeting the console core count, which is unlikely to increase in the next 3-4 years.
I'm hoping Intel bring 8 cores to the mainstream with Icelake, hopefully the 6 core variant will be £300 and 8 cores around £400, I can't see them not increasing the core count with Ryzen knocking them in the teeth.
Just the small problem of price, availability and the fact you can buy an 8 core for less money on a better platform.
Ryzen, X99 even X299 and maybe even X399 at current Coffee Lake prices.
AM4>Socket 1151 pretty hard TBH.
x99 has turned out great value with still great performance.ryzen nah no point now with coffee lake at this point.if you want the best value performance x299 will probably end up lasting longer and higher performance but you pay the big price at first but in 3 years time you will see the value.the 8700k is a great gaming cpu though which no ryzen chip is getting close to. if you have a modern monitor with 120hz/144 its the chip you choose for modern gaming.
Gaming performance is super close. You wouldn't notice the difference and you could argue chips like the 6700K and 7700K will top more bar charts. For the price the 7740X overclocked with a top end Nvidia card and 2MP monitor will top most benchmarks. Move away from that configuration and then price becomes the deciding factor.
Gaming performance is "super close" only in testing where the GPU is the bottleneck. If that's removed as much as possible out of the equation then even the i5 8400 Coffee Lake will usually outperform the entire Ryzen line.
Workloads should be the deciding factor, if you mainly game then Coffee Lake is an easy choice, if you do anything that can actually use lots of cores, then Ryzen becomes a lot more interesting.
Workloads should be the deciding factor, if you mainly game then Coffee Lake is an easy choice, if you do anything that can actually use lots of cores, then Ryzen becomes a lot more interesting.
