Our most contempo CPU roundup pitted Intel'south seventh and 8th-gen Cadre i5 and Core i7s against AMD's Ryzen 5 and 7 by playing and benchmarking nine representative PC games at multiple resolutions. In total eight new CPUs were tested at their base of operations clock speeds.

We then planned to revisit the comparing with overclocking results. Nevertheless making good sense of the numbers and the processors that brought the all-time value, we decided to make a more straightforward shootout -- this was also the almost demanded past readers -- putting an overclocked Ryzen 5 1600 against the Core i5-8400 instead.

Carried over from the previous article are the results for stock Ryzen 5 1600X and Core i7-7700K which will be compared to the Core i5-8400 and Ryzen 5 1600, the last of which volition exist overclocked to 4GHz. Then over again, the focus of today's benchmarks will be the overclocked Ryzen 5 1600 at 4GHz versus the Core i5-8400 with the intent of seeing whether the Ryzen CPU tin can deliver comparable gaming functioning when overclocked, and how it stacks upwardly in terms of value.

Benchmark Fourth dimension

Battlefield 1 brought disappointing numbers for Ryzen right off the bat. That said, I wasn't expecting the overclocked 1600 to be significantly faster than the 1600X which already operates quite close to 4GHz for the most part. Hither at 720p, overclocking the cheaper R5 1600 boosted frame rates by upwards to five% and this meant even overclocked Ryzen was much slower than the eighth generation Cadre i5.

In fact, here the Core i5-8400 is 40fps faster for the minimum frame rate and that's almost a 30% increment. Yous're substantially getting 7700K like operation (slightly better) for a much lower price, when looking at the MSRP anyway.

As dire as the low resolution testing looks every bit the GPU clogging creeps in at 1080p on ultra quality, the Ryzen 5 1600 mounts a swift comeback and is at present inside a five% margin. There are two sides to these results. Some will say they are realistic every bit they show gamers how much difference they will really encounter under weather condition they intend to play. The other side being that it's hiding how much faster the Intel CPUs are and with faster GPUs that margin will open up in the hereafter. I'grand simply going to note both arguments and leave it upwardly to you to make up one's mind which results will influence your buying decision.

Finally at 1440p nosotros are even more GPU limited and hither the CPU's affect is reduced farther, needless to say all CPUs offered a smooth experience in Battleground 1.