Core i5 2500K vs Ryzen 1400 vs Ryzen 1200

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Interesting comparison.

http://www.in.techspot.com/reviews/...-i5-2500k-vs-fx-8370/articleshow/60186416.cms

The Core i5-2500K, however, simply refuses to die. It's the little engine that could and by the looks of it, always will. If you're still holding out for a cost effective upgrade, well it’s business as usual. Unless you're jumping to a modern Core i7 or maybe the Ryzen 5 1600, the gains simply aren't there.

There were few instances where the 2500K trailed the Ryzen CPUs, though when it did the margins were small. After seeing this, I'm keen to do an in-depth 2500K revisit and compare it to CPUs such as the R5 1600 and i5-7600K. Maybe I'll make time for that once I'm done with Vega.
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Looks like the 2500K roughly matches the performance of Ryzen 1300X/1400X. 2500K cost about 10.5k back in 2011 when it came out which is roughly same as Ryzen 1300X and cheaper than 1400X.
 
Intel i5 2500k is really like an old wine :).

Last year i upgraded my CPU (i5 750) + GPU (HD6950).

Though when i see gaming benchmarks of i5 750 pop up every now and then running the latest games just fine, i wonder whether i upgraded my CPU too soon :p.

i5 750 and i5 2500k were really revolutionary processors, after releasing those, Intel became lazy due to lack of competition.

P.S : Intel i5 8600k would become a revolutionary processor once Intel releases it in the month of Sep/Oct.
 
I still use 2500k :)[DOUBLEPOST=1503493173][/DOUBLEPOST]One thing though , the pc struggles in heavy usage scenarios like witcher 3
 
I just sold a 2500k recently. It was a a good cpu but the R7 1700 @4G is significantly faster in everything - not just games, everything. Sure 2500k is a good CPU and will still work for most games alright if clocked at 4.5G. However play something badly optimized like Dishonored 2 and the performance tanks. The frame rates are still okay but there is stuttering everywhere. The same issue persists in things like Crysis 3 which are heavily multithreaded. Also the other thing one has to remember is that Steve there is testing it with DDR3 2133 while most folks use a 2500k with DDR3 1600. That make a big difference to be honest.

However I do agree - other than AVX2 workloads, clock to clock the performance difference between a 2500k @ 4.5 and a 7600k @ 4.5 will be very very small.
 
Emrebel said:
I still use 2500k :)[DOUBLEPOST=1503493173][/DOUBLEPOST]One thing though , the pc struggles in heavy usage scenarios like witcher 3
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I am on 2500K myself and Witcher 3 runs pretty well enough. Maybe your GPU is to blame for it. 2500K definitely becomes a bottleneck with modern GPU's. but its not to the extent that performance is severely effected.
 
And in Techspot's review, the GTX1080 and 1070 was somewhat getting bottlenecked, 1060's performance was being saturated just fine.

As most of the game developers haven't moved from optimizing games for more than 4threads yet. Some old processors are still relevant for gaming till this date.

Though the same cannot be said about the performance in encoding and rendering applications.
 
Lord Nemesis said:
I am on 2500K myself and Witcher 3 runs pretty well enough. Maybe your GPU is to blame for it. 2500K definitely becomes a bottleneck with modern GPU's. but its not to the extent that performance is severely effected.
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I have 1070.
Preety sure its cpu.
As I always have afterburner on.[DOUBLEPOST=1503495624][/DOUBLEPOST]
Emrebel said:
I have 1070.
Preety sure its cpu.
As I always have afterburner on.
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Ps by bottleneck, I dont mean low fps but around 60-70 fps
 
Emrebel said:
I have 1070.
Preety sure its cpu.
As I always have afterburner on.[DOUBLEPOST=1503495624][/DOUBLEPOST]
Ps by bottleneck, I dont mean low fps but around 60-70 fps
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Thats what bottleneck means :p.

Some component is stopping the other component from performing to its maximum potential. :)
 
There's no point in getting a new quad core CPU if you have the 2500k overclocked to 4.4 Ghz+. The Ryzen 5 1600 or higher makes sense if you want to go the AMD way. Intel is rolling out its coffee lake lineup so I'd wait for the 6c/6t i5s or the 6c/12t i7s.
 
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