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Fazit:
Should I buy the AMD Ryzen 1700?
The Ryzen 7 1700 sits in a very odd position in the CPU market. On the one hand, its clearly the multi-threaded performance champion for its price, making it ideal for those for whom power is categorically the priority. However, its single-threaded performance trails far behind the Intel Core i7-7700K.
On the surface this suggests the 7700K is still the better buy for most home users and, in particular, gamers; most programs and games are still single-threaded (or only lightly multi-threaded).
However, in the real world there are actually very few single-threaded applications that would be slowed down by the Ryzen 7 1700. In fact, since all your day-to-day apps such as Outlook, Word, Chrome, Excel, iTunes and Dropbox use so little CPU power, to a certain degree it makes no difference which processor you have.
As such, there's a strong case for saying that the Ryzen 7 1700 is the better option, even if you very rarely use heavily multi-threaded applications, simply because it will offer better performance when those really heavy-duty tasks come along.
This leaves gaming as the only crucial consideration for why youd choose the faster-clocked 7700K, and it makes a very good case for itself. In short, the R7 1700 has toppled Intel for video editing at this price, but not for gaming.
Fazit:
Should I buy the AMD Ryzen 1700?
The Ryzen 7 1700 sits in a very odd position in the CPU market. On the one hand, its clearly the multi-threaded performance champion for its price, making it ideal for those for whom power is categorically the priority. However, its single-threaded performance trails far behind the Intel Core i7-7700K.
On the surface this suggests the 7700K is still the better buy for most home users and, in particular, gamers; most programs and games are still single-threaded (or only lightly multi-threaded).
However, in the real world there are actually very few single-threaded applications that would be slowed down by the Ryzen 7 1700. In fact, since all your day-to-day apps such as Outlook, Word, Chrome, Excel, iTunes and Dropbox use so little CPU power, to a certain degree it makes no difference which processor you have.
As such, there's a strong case for saying that the Ryzen 7 1700 is the better option, even if you very rarely use heavily multi-threaded applications, simply because it will offer better performance when those really heavy-duty tasks come along.
This leaves gaming as the only crucial consideration for why youd choose the faster-clocked 7700K, and it makes a very good case for itself. In short, the R7 1700 has toppled Intel for video editing at this price, but not for gaming.