LogiGaming
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A lot of people on here are admitting that Ryzen 2 is slower at games than Intel but saying it doesn’t matter because you can’t tell the difference. Well, you’re right in that in most cases you won’t be able to tell the difference. However, if you’re buying a CPU purely to game with - and it’s clear that a lot of people will be. It doesn’t really make any sense to choose the slower part. It’s like saying don’t buy a 5700 over an RX590 if gaming at 1080p because you won’t be able to notice the difference. Also, it’s likely that in say 3 years time or whatever you will be buying a GPU upgrade that will be considerably more powerful than anything available today and that will shift more games to bottlenecking on the CPU. Games will also become more CPU hungry with time as games become more comprehensive. When these things happen, there’s a good chance you will be able to notice the difference in these games.
But really, it still doesn’t make any sense to me to buy a weaker performing part at what you are planning to do with it. There are some productivity tests that show Intel very close in performance to Ryzen to the point where you probably wouldn’t notice but that doesn’t mean you’d pick Intel over AMD if you’re planning to use it for that particular application. Such a suggestion would be ridiculous.
And I don’t buy the value gamer argument, Ryzen 2 has poor value compared to the now discounted ryzen+, which you also won’t be able to tell the difference between - many claimed this between Ryzen+ and Intel so why not just buy that if you’re after value? Ryzen is cheaper than Intel but neither is cheap, if you’re buying for gaming only then I can’t see why you would pick Ryzen 2 over either Ryzen+ for value or over Intel for absolute performance.
Don’t get me wrong of course, Ryzen 2 is clearly a much better family of CPUs than Intel’s 14nm stuff practically across the board - for 19/20 users perhaps. But not if you’re a performance minded gamer. I don’t understand it, the graphs are black and white and if you’re an AMD fan you should be very happy that AMD are now dominating Intel in almost every area. It’s like you want it to be perfect to the point where AMD is literally better at everything. You can’t have everything!
Basically be happy AMD fans. All Intel have got now are the gaming performance enthusiasts like me. We are pleasure users, not people actually using this stuff for work. Those guys should be buying Ryzen.
The problem is that you just shown too much IQ for some people to handle. I personally give up, let them live in the ilusion and on the hypocrisy. Imagine buying a CPU to play games in 2019, paying 370€/500€ and competing with a 3 year old 6700k.