In the past few months, we have written comparison after comparison of AMD’s very successful Ryzen CPU series to Intel’s ultra-fast 8th generation Coffee Lake chips. (For a quick recap, here are a few:Ryzen 7 1700 vs Core i7-7700Kandvs Core i7-8700K,Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-7600Kandvs Core i5-8600K.)
These processors are often comparable in terms of price and performance, but building a complete PC is a different story. In this article I will show the differences between two comparable Intel and AMD Ryzen systems, based on thei7-8700KandRyzen 7 1700respectively.