I've been gaming on the 7700k and I've noticed significant stutters from time to time @ 4.8. I've heard multiple people say that ryzen is smooth, in fact multiple people say they can't believe how smooth it is as a noticeable difference.
Perhaps the frame rates is a trade-off sometimes as high as 30 frames difference. I suppose though as long as you're hitting your monitors native refresh it's not a huge deal and smooth is better than choppy. Thank you and don't forget to tip your waiter.
basically ryzen is more capable for multitasking, with more cores/threads. The cpu will be able to take far more load than your typical 7700k. Comparing ryzen (8core chips) to 7700k is wrong - its a different class of chips. Ryzen 8core chips are meant to compete with intel 6-8core 5820k - 6950k series, not desktop level chips good at single threaded ops.
I own a 1700X and imho games run smoothly - it's definitely an upgrade compared to my old 2500k.
I think it's perfectly fine to compare the two in terms of gaming performance. I personally believe quad cores should be the new dual core and we should have more cores in all, it's time to move forward.
well thats the thing, if you go up with core count the single threaded/core performance drops. Most games till this day utilizes 1, 2 or 4 cores. Only few utilizes more than that. Its obvious that 4core clocked at 5GHz will beat a 8core at 4GHz in single threaded operations. The Ryzen 7 cpu's are simply different class processors. The gaming performance difference between two is like comparing 5820k vs 7700k (hold on, don't google - 7700k wins in games)
Which is the point I'm trying to make. You may lose fps but you may gain a more fluid experience. btw... the 7700k may win in benchmarks but that doesn't matter much at least to me.. if it is not as smooth.