With similar overall prices, which one should I buy, AMD Ryzen or Intel i7?
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Last week, AMD officially released and launched the highly anticipated Ryzen CPU. After the evaluation results came out, its performance, price, and core thread count were well received by players. From then on, Intel is no longer the only one in the high-end market, and players have more options. Intel's high-end products have always been clearly divided in terms of price and performance. People don't have to worry about how much money they pay for how much performance they get, but now AMD's high-profile entry has suddenly changed this market, which may put you in a new dilemma... The comprehensive price of i7-7700K and Ryzen 7 1700 is similar At present, AMD Ryzen only has boxed licensed products to choose from, and the prices of various channels are almost the same. Ryzen 7 1700 is priced at 2499 yuan, while the high-end Intel i7-7700K of the mainstream platform is available in loose pieces and boxed. For experienced drivers, of course, loose pieces are preferred. Therefore, we consider the price of loose pieces. The price of Intel i7-7700K is 2200 yuan, and the price difference between them in terms of CPU is not large. From the comparison table, we can see that the X370 and Z270 motherboards of the same series or the same materials and positioning are also priced very close, which will result in a comprehensive cost difference of about 300 yuan for the CPU + motherboard. So for players, this is a tangle: "Should I buy AMD Ryzen with more core threads or i7-7700K with higher frequency?" i7-6800K & Ryzen 7 1700X: X99 motherboard is expensive but has stronger expansion capabilities The same reason, the price of i7-6800K loose chip is about 2900 yuan, and the boxed Ryzen 7 1700X is only 3099 yuan, and the price difference is exactly 300. However, the motherboard X99 will have stronger expansion capabilities, more PCIe 3.0 channels for better support for multiple graphics cards or PCIe SSDs, and can also be configured with more M.2 SSD interfaces and U.2 SSD interfaces. Moreover, most X99 motherboards are equipped with 8 quad-channel DDR4 memory slots, which is also better than the 4 dual-channel slots of X370. However, the price of most new generation X99 motherboards starts at 3,000. Of course, there are some X99 motherboards that can be made at a very low price, but the expansion capability is castrated to even lower than Z270, so this type of X99 motherboard will not be discussed. After all, players who buy X99 platform are still going for the powerful chipset expansion capability in addition to CPU performance. Therefore, as long as you choose the supreme X99 platform, AMD's price advantage will be greater. Data speaks: AMD/Intel applications have their own advantages AMD Ryzen: More threads make professional software more efficient Thanks to the advantage of more threads, and most professional applications for rendering, modeling, and encoding have a particularly obvious demand for multi-threading, at this time, the advantages of multi-core and multi-threaded AMD Ryzen are relatively more obvious; Ryzen 7 1700 vs. i7-7700K with 8 cores and 16 threads pk4 cores and 8 threads may be a bit unfair, but their prices are indeed very similar. When Ryzen 7 1700X competes with i7-6800K, AMD has the advantage in both price and performance. Intel i7: High frequency supports better games, but multithreading is useless As you can see, AMD is almost completely outmatched by Intel in terms of game performance, and by comparing Intel i7-7700K and other Intel i7 CPUs, i7-7700K almost completely suppresses other models in terms of game performance. The fundamental reason is that the games currently developed by game companies have not been deeply optimized for multithreading. Even if you provide 16 threads, only 6 to 8 threads can actually be called. Therefore, under this premise, the advantages of high frequency and strong single-core performance are more obvious. As for why i7-7700K is so invincible now? Andy-Bill's law may give you a very suitable explanation: Andy-Bill's law points out the relationship between software and hardware upgrades, that is, the degree of software development is based on the hardware environment. The software will quickly take advantage of the hardware performance improvement. In other words, before AMD Ryzen came out to disrupt the game, game developers developed games based on the hardware environment of the current CPU market. If the most mainstream high-end CPU is i7-7700K, then I can't develop a game that requires 10 cores and 20 threads to run smoothly, right? Who would play such a game? Therefore, most of the games on the market are currently developed only for CPUs with a maximum of 4 cores and 8 threads, because there is no commercial significance in developing games with more cores and multiple threads. But now that AMD Ryzen is accepted by most players, developers will develop games that can better tap into the multi-threaded performance of the CPU based on this premise, but this will not be something that can be achieved immediately in a short time. Regarding the fact that the Ryzen CPU game performance did not perform as well as expected, AMD's Lisa Su also responded immediately, pointing out that the fundamental reason for the poor performance of the game is that the CPU with a new architecture has not yet been deeply optimized for the game, and 300 engineers have been invested to solve this problem. (But maybe we can't hold out too much hope. After all, this is the result determined by the overall development environment at this stage.) The AM4 platform will not be upgraded based on the change of interface . Intel's strategy of changing the interface every two years is quite a scam: In the DIY circle, Intel has been criticized by players for many years. In addition to the "toothpaste squeezing" of performance, another very important point is that the mainstream platform releases a generation a year, and the interface is changed every two generations, which greatly increases the cost of upgrading for players. If you want to upgrade the CPU every two years, you must change even the motherboard... As for AMD, it is relatively conscientious and announced that the interface of the next few generations of Ryzen architecture CPUs will not be changed until the new DMI channel (PCIe 4.0 or other more powerful technologies) is launched, and the CPU interface will not be updated. In other words, it can at least last 4 to 5 years, and AMD has now unified the interface of high, medium and low-end CPUs and even APUs. It will not be divided into mainstream and supreme platforms like Intel. This year, Intel's X299 motherboard will change its interface again. The upgrade cycle of the Extreme platform is slightly longer than that of the mainstream platform, but at most it is three years (the first generation X99 was launched in 2014, and the second generation X99 was born in 2016 with the i7-6950X). Therefore, if you want your motherboard to last longer and upgrade the CPU to save worry and money, then AMD Ryzen is undoubtedly more suitable for you. It has been analyzed clearly to choose the most suitable one according to your needs. 1. If you are a user of professional software, video editing, and rendering, then the lower price and more threads of AMD Ryzen will be more suitable for you. 2. For pure gamers, it is recommended to choose Intel i7-7700K with high-end graphics cards. If necessary, dual-channel SLI is also excellent. (Although only the X99 platform has enough channels to achieve 4-way graphics cards, NVIDIA, which currently dominates the high-end graphics card market, has also announced that it will only open two-way SLI, which means that even if you use X99, you can only use two-way at most if you run a top-level N card, and AMD has not yet had a product that can compete with GTX1070 and above graphics cards.) 3. If you want to have both professional applications and gaming performance, it is recommended that you choose the cheaper AMD Ryzen. Although the gaming performance is slightly weaker (perhaps there will be a certain degree of optimization to make up for it later), the first three Ryzens currently on the market are still much more cost-effective than the Intel Extreme series. 4. For top hardware enthusiasts who purely pursue running performance, I believe you also have your own deep understanding of the hardware itself, and the current U Emperor is still i7-6950X, and you can also set up four-way GTX1080Ti to run 3DMARK, hahaha! 5. If you hope that a motherboard platform can serve for many years, then it is better to choose the AMD AM4 platform. Maybe the next generation of Ryzen+ will be released next year for you to upgrade. As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity. |
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