After comparison Intel's new Core i7-7800X and AMD'due south Ryzen 5 1600 in productivity workloads, we're back by popular request to learn whether Intel still takes the cake when information technology comes to loftier-stop gaming.

This wouldn't be a proper showdown without at to the lowest degree 2 dozen games and so we've included 30 for skilful measure, all of which were played on the GTX 1080 Ti at 1080p. Being that there'southward no bespeak in using GPU-limited scenarios to gaming performance of CPUs, we didn't feel the need to gather results for 1440p or 4K.

Both the i7-7800X and R5 1600 systems were configured with DDR4-3200 CL14 memory, all the same, the Intel system was equipped with 32GB whereas the Ryzen system just had 16GB. Please note that this shouldn't bear upon the results and for whatever it's worth, there'due south a reason why I've done this: I don't accept a 32GB 3200MHz kit yet that works with Ryzen.

Every bit we proceed, it's worth keeping in mind that the 7800X currently costs $415 (but has an MSRP of $390) while the 1600 is retailing for just $215, so almost half the toll, not to mention that the AM4 platform also costs significantly less than Intel's LGA2066.

Ryzen Organisation Specs

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.2 - 3.half-dozen GHz)
  • Asrock X370 Taichi
  • 16GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2TB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

Skylake-X System Specs

  • Intel Core i7-7800X (three.5 - 4.0 GHz)
  • Asrock X299 Taichi
  • 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2TB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

Kaby Lake System Specs

  • Intel Core i7-7700K (4.2 - 4.5 GHz)
  • Asrock Z270 Taichi
  • 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2TB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • Windows ten Pro 64-flake

World of Tanks isn't a specially demanding title only the idea here is to include a wide range of games. Exist enlightened that this game is express to 120fps and while information technology's possible to circumvent that cap information technology's not something near people are going to bother doing or really need to do. Here the Ryzen 5 1600 had no trouble pushing the GTX 1080 Ti to the frame cap and it was even a few frames faster than the 7800X.

Grand Theft Motorcar 5 is a game that has never played well with the Ryzen CPUs. Being an older championship from 2022, information technology pre-dates Ryzen by a few years, simply the title is nevertheless demanding plenty on system resources to continue in our queue of benchmarks. The overclocked R5 1600 was only 6% slower than the 7800X and that's pretty impressive given that information technology's also clocked xv% lower. It's likewise a massive improvement over the 20% margin separating the Ryzen CPU from the 7700K.

I previously benchmarked PlayerUnknown'southward Battlegrounds at the starting expanse where anybody runs around waiting for the game to brainstorm. This was a mistake for a few reasons. First, it'south extremely hard to gather reliable data here and 2nd it'southward significantly more demanding than the actual gameplay because you lot don't typically experience this many players in such a pocket-sized area when playing. I'k now testing within the game, dropping into the aforementioned location each time and so post-obit the same path over 60 seconds for an average of iii runs.

As you can see, the R5 1600 performs well in this championship. It's worth noting that this release is capped at 144fps and I'1000 not sure if at that place is a piece of work around to remove information technology. That said, 144fps is enough and I can't imagine many players volition be able to take advantage of more frames than that in this title. Although the game's frame rate is capped, the R5 1600 was consistently quicker than the 7800X by a small margin, delivering around seven% more than frames when looking at the minimum.

The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt plays well on both the 7800X and R5 1600, that said the Intel CPU was faster. This game isn't frame capped, so if the GTX 1080 Ti could evangelize over 200fps using the ultra quality settings we would likely see that with a CPU such as the 7700K. Anyway the R5 1600 was 15% slower than the 7800X out of the box, nonetheless once both CPUs are overclocked that margin is reduced to only half dozen%, so while withal slower an impressive issue yet for the Ryzen CPU.