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welcome back to harbor unboxed today i'm going to address a question that is often asked by you guys the viewers which cpu should I buy for gaming Rison five-o horizon 7 around this time last year we set up to address that very question with the first generation of horizon CPUs by comparing the rise in seven 1700 risin 5 1600 and we even threw in the quad-core risin 5 1400 for good measure the 1700 is of course an 8 core 16 thread CPU while the 1600 is a 6 cord 12 thread sea view and the 1400 a 4 core 8 thread CPU for that test we benchmarked half a dozen modern titles and found that overall there was very little difference in the fights between these six and eight core models virtually no difference at all for most titles in fact games such as total war Warhammer - using the gtx 980ti with the ultra quality setting saw no real difference at 1080p and the same was also true for hitman Deus Ex mankind divided and even battlefield 1 in fact even the margins and ashes of the singularity were very minimal ultimately what this meant was the risin 5 1600 ended up being a much more cost-effective option and once overclocked at cost gamers just $3.00 per frame in our tests while the 1700 was almost 40% more expensive per frame now we have the newer second generation riser models featuring the 6 core 2600 series and the 8 core 2700 series the 6 core models cost around 30% less so once again many are asking us if they should even bother with the 2700 or 2700 X 4 gaming rather than compare these 6 and 8 core processors and a ship loaded games we're going to just get straight to the point on this one as was the case a year ago there really are still no games I take full advantage of an 8 core processor and in fact after the singularity is still one of the best examples we have even so using the highest quality settings which still allow the GTX 1080i to render well over 60 FPS 1440p we see absolutely no difference in performance and this is also true even at 1080p removing the GPU bottleneck at 720p reveals the 8 core model to be a superior performer but in this title a tile that I'd say is very cool heavy by today's standards under almost all real-world conditions that difference won't be realized still if more games are like ashes of the singularity I'm picking between these two CPUs for gaming would be a little more difficult however as it currently stands most games look like this and what we see here when testing with deus ex mankind divided is nothing no difference at all between these two CPUs even at 720p this could also be seen when testing with project curves - and a number of other mostly GPU bound games some games will slightly favor the higher core cap processor we're not GPU limited such as Just Cause 3 prey player on owns battlegrounds and Ghost Recon wildlands but the margins are very small and again under most conditions won't be realized recently we also conducted some coarse scaling benchmarks when comparing the 2700 x and 8700 k here are the second-generation rise and results and as you can quite clearly see playing battle for the one with the gtx to a CI 1080p using the ultra quality settings this sees very little difference between the 6 and 8 core Eisen CPUs that said we do see a reasonably large drop off with just four cores active depending on the conditions it is possible to achieve slightly better performance with the 8 core model in games such as battlefield 1 but we're starting talking a 5% difference when using medium quality settings that being the case it's quite clear nothing has changed in the past year and e6 core 12 thread arisin 5 processes are still the sweet spot for gamers offering the perfect balance of price and performance you really only need to look at the rise and 7 series if you plan on running core heavy applications doing things such as encoding and rendering for example purely for gaming the Rison 7 processes are still overkill and while it is nice to have that extra Headroom truth be told you'll likely upgrade to a newer more efficient CPU before taking advantage of the Headroom offered by those extra cores so if you're a gamer trying to work out whether or not to spend that extra hundred dollars on a rise and 7 processor I recommend you don't instead invest that money in some quality ddr4 memory or a faster graphics card and that is going to do it for the benchmarks what they don't have to be benchmarked marathons thanks for watching I'm yo Steve see time