Ryzen Cpus Compared

I have used many Ryzen cpus in my builds and they are the best on the market in my opinion. I haven't received the rest of the parts for this particular computer build from other sources as of yet so I'm afraid I will have to review this particular piece at a later date although I am certain it will be perfectly fine as were all my other AMD purchases. Sorry for such a delay. Stay safe...

All benchmarks show the new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs perform better than its competitor in both productivity and gaming. It is a no brainer. I needed the high core count of the 5900X to power my unRAID media/NAS/gaming server. It runs like a champ while being quiet and in low temp. Shout out to B&H Photo for allowing pre-order on this product. Other retailers require you to play the game of who can check out the fastest, and you can never beat the scalper bots. While I wait for my pre-order to be filled, I tried my luck on buying one from other retailers and failed miserably every single time when there was a stock alert.

My previous system had an Intel i7-2600K doing the work. To say that the i7-8700K blows it away is stating the obvious. It's faster and more efficient in every way. Video encoding is more than 3X faster in my few tests. 7th & 8th generation Intel CPUs also have the necessary hardware to playback even UHD Blu-ray. In my case it was time for a system upgrade and there were a lot of choices. Last generation's 7700K had come down in price and AMD Ryzen CPUs offer more cores for the price. I chose the 8700K due to the maturity of the platform, it works beautifully, I've had no software or hardware issues. Of course you will need a new motherboard as you would with a Ryzen and maybe memory too. If you decide to go with the 8700K it will give you years of service. There are always new products coming around, if you're in the market I think this is a good choice now. Availability is limited but should increase so be patient and don't buy one marked up in price.

It is definitely worth the expense, compared to similar processors on the market it is quite nice, and was easy to set up (as most CPUs tend to be) Works as intended and shipping was fast, packaging wasn't damaged or messed up at all either.

amd cpus are pretty sick

If you're looking at a Ryzen, you should punch yourself in the face right now. This is the one you want.

Works with Ryzen 5 3600

significant increase from my ryzen 5 2600x.

Good board for an AM4 Ryzen CPU.

Decided to pick this up after I was about to put in a Ryzen 5