Should you stay with intel? Or move to Ryzen? Overlook of AMD's new series of processors. Part 2.

 

In this thread we will be looking into the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 series and to see if it is worth purchasing instead of the most popular i7 intel series of processors, we will talk about gaming performance and multi tasking performance as well, and i will also be showing some benchmarks this is part 2 see part 1 here.

So Ryzen has slayed the budget dragon when it comes to performance per dollar, and gamers are rejoicing for such good pricing, it is about time AMD released a new series of processors to go up against intel, in this part 2 of Should you stay with intel? Or more to Ryzen? we will be talking about the Ryzen 7 1700 VS the Intel i7 7700k, we will look at pricing and performance against one another and also multi tasking ability.

Pricing:

I7-7700k ( $329.00 USD  Avg)

Ryzen 7 1700 ( $298.99 USD  Avg)

Now lets look at some specs of these processors

Ryzen 7 1700: Cores 8 | Threads 16 | Base clock 3.0Ghz | L2 cash 4mb.

Intel i7 7700k: Cores 4 | Threads 8 | Base clock 4.20Ghz |  8 MB SmartCache .

So you may be thinking how is this a fair comparison? the Ryzen 7 1700 has way better specs, Intel is more optimized for single core performance way more then AMD and also intel has much higher overclocking capability, so we will look over some benchmarks in some current popular game titles.

(all benchmarks are provided by top10gamer.com)

Average FPS:

 

Minimum FPS:

So as you can see both of these processors are very much the same when it comes to gaming and the reason the i7 7700k is up there with lower specs is because for gaming you really don't need more then 4 cores as i said Intel has better single core performance, but what should you purchase? honestly there is no reason to buy an i7 currently when you can buy a Ryzen 7 for cheaper and have double the cores, the more cores the better for when it comes to everything else, id say the Ryzen series are better overall processors for doing almost everything on your computer not just gaming.

I hope this thread helped you and you found it interesting, part 3 will be coming soon about the AMD Threadripper vs the Intel i9, so make sure to follow me to see that later on, thank you!