Zen2. Is Intel now the gamers choice & price/perf king?

[Unseul]

My point is the 3600X looks like it will offer similar performance with the bonus of multithreading for the same price. Even if it's 5% slower it makes more sense.

5% slower but 10% cheaper would indeed make it the better price performance chip. Thank you for pointing this out. I was wondering why a price performance thread was talking about the top level chips which are rarely the best for this.

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

As no one here knows what Ryzen 3 offers in gaming with blah blah blah memory at this, that and other settings, with whatever Core OC and Infinity OC I think this thread is 6 pages wasted!!!

Very true... however I have a sneaking suspicion that you may know the answer to that

Anyway, why 8 pack? You know that Batman has an extra abb hence a 9 pack... I think you can do 10 personally.

 

[Jacky60]

I'm tempted to go 9900K after Ryzen 3000 release. I really only play Arma 3 and the 9900K is 30% ( maybe more) faster than the 2700X.
While I'd like to support AMD I think it's going to be too little too late this time around. I guess we'll have to wait but I suspect Intel will retain the gaming crown.

 

[NinjaCool]

At least wait for the reviews Jacky60 and don't forget you will avoid most of the security issues thats plaguing Intel CPU's by going Ryzen.

 

[andybird123]

I've needed a new rig this week and with all the noise over 3000 coming soon I was tempted to just live without for a few weeks, however looking at pricing and actual gaming performance, the intel options are just so much cheaper for a full build - I'm actually going for a 9700k as I can't find any games that really benefit from multithreading, in fact it seems to be the opposite, games run faster when its off.

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

I've needed a new rig this week and with all the noise over 3000 coming soon I was tempted to just live without for a few weeks, however looking at pricing and actual gaming performance, the intel options are just so much cheaper for a full build - I'm actually going for a 9700k as I can't find any games that really benefit from multithreading, in fact it seems to be the opposite, games run faster when its off.

They are only cheaper if you're planning to get an x570 based motherboard, but unless you need more than 2 M.2 and PCIE4, then there's no reason not to consider an x470 or B450 board which reduces costs a fair bit.

I'd personally wait a couple of weeks for reviews before making up your mind. I still feel Intel will be kings when it comes to gaming, but likely within margin or error.

 

[Unseul]

You also don't need 4000mhz cl15 ram, think that most outlets found 3000-3200mhz to be the sweet spot for price to performance, which you can get 16gb for about £80 from what I've seen.

 

[Jacky60]

At least wait for the reviews Jacky60 and don't forget you will avoid most of the security issues thats plaguing Intel CPU's by going Ryzen.

I will wait for reviews and I'd love AMD to be quicker in this 2013 game but from current benchmarks I think it will be hard for AMD to make up the deficit. When its a difference between 36fps and 50+ fps
it's hard to imagine how AMD single thread performance can really manage to catch up.