Ryzen 5 1400 gaming benchmarks, $170 4 core, 8 thread CPU

[Cobretti2]

shikamaru317 said:

Cobretti2 said:
ok so mid range is all cool and all.

what about if money is no object and you want the best cpu out there, has AMD caught up to the best i7? and if it hasn't what other advantages does it have. Yes I Know i could google, but this is a discussion board so I am sure someone has already has an understanding on the subject

As of now, the R7's lose to the i7's in most games, but win with applications that make use of the R7's 16 threads, such as video encoding. I guess you could say the R7's are more future proof in the event of games being optimized to make use of 16 threads, but that likely won't happen anytime soon, so you're honestly better off buying an i7 if money is no object, or if money is an object, maybe buying one of the 6 core, 12 thread R5's and using the money you save over an R7/i7 to buy a good aftermarket cooler for overclocking and faster memory (which improves Ryzen performance by a good amount).

Ah thanks. I was under the impression that the i7 was still the best for multithreaded applications.

The bonus of video encoding is a nice suprise.  I guess if intel reelease a CPU with 16 threads it probably be better then the R7?

You have peaked my interest will have to do some more reading now.  It's been a lng tims since I had an AMD CPU or GPU LOL