Ryzen 1200 or Intel Pentium G4560

[dej]

I have recently been figuring out the parts for a pc build and I was wondering which CPU would be better paired with a Gtx 1060 6g

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

I telling you now, whatever path you pick you will still end up replacing those CPU's you listed, but if this is all you can afford, look ahead what you could get down the path you pick.

Intel = Higher FPS in games.
Ryzen = Better at multitasking.

[ericcui1]

G4560 is slightly better in pure gaming, barely noticeable. But Ryzen, being a true 4 core, allows you to run some usual tasks in the background without much impact on gaming performance. Also, the AM4 socket is kinda future proof, at least the current mobo can support the future Ryzen 2.

[vadim]

dejae님이 먼저 게시:

I have recently been figuring out the parts for a pc build and I was wondering which CPU would be better paired with a Gtx 1060 6g

For pure gaming Pentium is preferrable. It just has better price/performance ratio.

[Arya]

Difficult choise on two levels. The Pentium gives better performance for the money, but has no upgrade potential as parts for that socket won't be available for much longer. The AMD has subtly less power, but AM4 will be around for a long time, allowing you to upgrade to something better down the line.

And you'll want that upgrade potential. Neither of these CPUs is a good choice for game, both are painfully underpowered and will struggle to power modern games. Worse, they will both limit you to very low-powered graphics cards. It's a choice between cost-effective nothing and nothing with the potential to replace it with something better in future.

I strongly recommend you beg, borrow or steal* whatever you have to and buy a Ryzen 1600 or Intel i5. Otherwise, about a year from now, you're going to be right back here looking for advice replacing one or other of these rubbish CPUs. Assuming they even last you that long.

*Disclaimer - figure of speech. I don't condone theft.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

easy choice ryzen. you can pop in a better ryzen later. pentium is deadend

[vadim]

Wolfıe님이 먼저 게시:

Difficult choise on two levels. The Pentium gives better performance for the money, but has no upgrade potential as parts for that socket won't be available for much longer.

Pentium has straight upgrade path to i5 and i7.

[Arya]

vadim님이 먼저 게시:

Pentium has straight upgrade path to i5 and i7.

Does it? Intel has confirmed that Coffeelake won't be compatible with 2XX chipsets. OP would have to buy a used Kabylake chip to upgrade, and that's never a good idea.

[vadim]

Wolfıe님이 먼저 게시:

Does it? Intel has confirmed that Coffeelake won't be compatible with 2XX chipsets. OP would have to buy a used Kabylake chip to upgrade, and that's never a good idea.

Do you want to suggest him to buy Ryzen 1200 which can be upgraded up to Ryzen 1800X, which is significally lower than i7-7700k in the games? Do you understand that Pentium can be upgraded to more powerful CPU?

[Arya]

vadim님이 먼저 게시:

Do you want to suggest him to buy Ryzen 1200 which can be upgraded up to Ryzen 1800X, which is significally lower than i7-7700k in the games? Do you understand that Pentium can be upgraded to more powerful CPU?

That Pentium uses a chipset that will only be produced for another month or so. By the time OP realises it's a complete and utter turkey, there'll be little enough new Kabylake stock left for them to uprade to. Intel's future CPUs will not be compatible with B250/Z270, the company itself has confirmed that multiple times.

So yes, it can theoretically be upgraded and those theoretical upgrade CPUs would vastly outpeform anything AMD has. But having recently gone through the experience of buying a part recently taken out of production, I can tell you that it's a nightmare I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

[Arvaos]

The Ryzen 1200 does have excellent overclocking headroom, easily reaching 4.0Ghz and an overclocked quad core processor is an excellent deal.

Of course, you will encounter intel bias on certain forums and that's something to be skeptical. The R3 1200 is perfectly fine for gaming at 1920x1080, it has an average FPS of 80 on Battlefield 1 at ultra settings with DX11.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn__IalEE2Q

Here is the Ryzen 3 1200 with a 3.8Ghz and as we can see, there is a clear improvement over the G4560.

[GGPVL@PradzSquad]

Get Amd Ryzen man. Best choice!

[Arvaos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXcJv5sXrU

Here is another video with a Ryzen 3 1200 reaching 4.0GHz on stock cooling. The Ryzen 3 1200 also comes with a Wraith Stealth as the stock cooler which is excellent, it runs cool with an overclock.

[Monk]

Jayz2cents literally just made a video of this exact system comparison, the pentium won, if by a small margin, also, I'm intrigued to know how many people actually upgrade just the CPU, though a second hand 7700k will be pretty good value in the future for gaming.

[Woking-34]

Pick the Ryzen 3, it is future proof, has an update path with AM4 and will be better in the long run.

According to this analysis, it could be on pair with an i3-7100. And this is on stock!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXARoFm9Ql0

[Arvaos]

Monk님이 먼저 게시:

Jayz2cents literally just made a video of this exact system comparison, the pentium won, if by a small margin, also, I'm intrigued to know how many people actually upgrade just the CPU, though a second hand 7700k will be pretty good value in the future for gaming.

Was the Ryzen 1200 at stock clock speeds though and was it running dual channel RAM? The Ryzen i3 is on par with an i3-7100 if overclocked to 4.0Ghz.