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how good is the i7-8700K for gaming and to what ryzen cpu is it close to

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  • 1 month ago

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DrLitch
  • 1 month ago

how good is the i7-8700K for gaming

It is near seven years old now. It will do in a pinch and it is still usable today. CPU's do not age as horribly as GPU's. That said, unless you were given it for free, I would consider a more contemporary CPU.

otoomet
  • 1 month ago

It is about the same as ryzen 3600 (openbenchmarking).

I'd say it is still usable if you are not chasing for the best results.

LIVE_AMMO
  • 1 month ago

The 8700K and my 9700K are pretty similar, except the 8700K has hyper-threading. In games, the performance difference is basically negligible, around 1%. Game performance, in general, great. Absent of multi-threading support, the 9700K does show little signs of struggle in CPU-intensive titles, something you’re unlikely to experience with the 8-core 16-thread 8700K.

8700K/9700K = somewhere between a Ryzen 3600/5600.

Nalianna
  • 24 days ago

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3098vs6363vs3235vs3075vs3033/Intel-i7-8700K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-3-8300G-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-2600X-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-PRO-1700-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-PRO-1700X

Some Ryzen's that it's close to. However, lots of those are OLD. Dont' consider them. You can get better, cheaper.