Ryzen Vs Intel GTX 1080 Ti Showdown Revisited

Final Thoughts

Overview

When I first did this performance test of Ryzen, I wanted to answer “is Ryzen good for gaming?” and the simple answer was yes. Despite what I’ve been reading online from our readers and on other websites. Such as hearing that Ryzen R7 isn’t ideal for gaming. I still can’t find any evidence to support what I’m reading. Ryzen delivers rock solid gaming performance. Even against two high-end Intel offerings the performance is either better, neck and neck, or extremely close. Honestly, most users wouldn’t be able to tell which was running in a blind test.

The 1800X doesn’t come cheap, and Intel price cuts mean that the i7-7700K is now more competitive; the real contender here is the price. Ryzen does have an advantage in some areas, however, such as often cheaper motherboards. Those boards can deliver excellent overclocking performance, and the AM4 platform future proof. AMD are set to stick to the same socket for many processors. Meanwhile, Intel love to change the pin count with every new CPU release. AMD, Intel and motherboard manufacturers are only just starting regarding a price war, but it is heating up and will only get more savage when the R5 series of AMD CPUs hit the market in the coming weeks.

We’ve already seen that the 1800X is a good chip for gaming, rendering, and other computational tasks. Of course, we’ve also seen that the 1700 and 1700X deliver almost the same performance, but at a much lower cost. This means that they’re giving the i7-7700K some extremely promising competition. Right now, I think the i7-7700K and the 1700X are the best bang for buck high-end gaming processors. Both offer excellent performance and both cost around £350. However, I would still put my money on the Ryzen platform right now, as with double the core count of the Intel offering, it is capable of pulling ahead in heavy workloads and will reap the benefits in DirectX 12 applications that are tuned to use more CPU cores. Support for better core support is certainly growing.

We’ve had reports that Ryzen isn’t being used to its full potential, even in our testing! The performance is very closely tied to memory speeds. With most people, including ourselves, having trouble getting the best DDR4 speeds out of this new architecture we’re eager to re-test Ryzen with RAM that has better compatibility. We need memory that we can clock much higher, with an even more capable CPU cooler to keep the 1800X from throttling, etc. We know how hard the 7700K and the 5820K can be pushed, but we’ve yet to tap out the maximum performance of Ryzen, and that’s why I think it’s the more exciting platform, it still has that X-factor about it.

Which CPU would you choose? We believe that they all did pretty well. Intel is rock solid as ever, but the new blood from AMD can certainly keep up with the big boys when it comes to gaming. Regardless of what we’ve heard in comments sections, the benchmarks are here for all to see.

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