Ryzen 3700x or i9 9900k?

[Sonny Fontaine]

With RTX 2070/2080. Which variant is better for 1080p and 1440p gaming?

[tacoshy]

on benchmarks the 9900K if "better" means higher fps and performance. If you comapre the price/performanc ethen proberly the 3700X.
For 1080p Gaming both CPU's are mroe then you need and an i7-9700K will do the trick aswell for lower price unelss you do streaming through the CPU.

For 1080p the RTX 2080 is aswell way more then you need and you could safe the money for further upgrades.

[r.linder]

If you're only gaming the 9700K is the best chip for raw performance on the market, the 9900K is not worthwhile for solely gaming. The R5 3600 comes in close, however, for a lot less dough.

For raw performance in gaming and streaming simultaneously, the 9900K is the best CPU to do it, and has about the same price-to-performance ratio as the 3900X. It really comes down to either preference, desire to overclock, or depends on whatever platform one may currently have. If one already has AMD Ryzen, they're obviously better off staying on that platform, and vice versa for Intel as long as their board supports 9th gen.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

The Intel 9900K will perform slightly better, the AMD Ryzen 3700X will be slightly cheaper. The difference isnt big, its pretty much on your preference. I also believe that chipset and BIOS updates might push Ryzen 3000 to increased performance eventually, since its new and might have certain bugs.

I would go AMD, its newer and more energy efficient.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If it's only gaming and not much else, or not looking to live stream or extreme multi-tasking while gaming, 3600 or 9700K would be fine really.

Although 3700X isn't a bad choice, if you can afford to go that route, sure.

9900K though should be compared with 3900X, not 3700X

For gpu I'd look at RTX 2080 SUPER

For Display I'd look at 1440p/144hz and use DisplayPort

[sawdust3d]

For gaming it's still the 9700k, if budget dependent the 3600.

For a mixed workload the 3700x.

9900k & 3900x for for more content creator/multi thread dependent workloads.

It's awesome we have this flooded & competitive CPU market at the moment; seems like there is a sub-category for everything.

GPU market sucks; but hey........baby steps to the elevator Bob.