I am looking at 2 new computers. Both are very close in price. One has an AMD Ryzen 5 CPU and the other one has an AMD FX-6300 CPU. Which one do you feel is the better CPU? The major demands would be adventure type games and burning dvd's.

Assuming the Ryzen 5 is a 1600, this is the comparison at CPU Boss.

Comparison

Thank you. Yes the Ryzen is a 1600. Seems to me they are close. Nothing jumps out as a big difference.

Both are fast enough for your purposes, but the FX-6300 is several years older.

Did you mean FX-6300 or A4-6300?
I'm surprised you found a computer with an FX-6300 for sale.

If it's an FX-6300, it uses an AM3+ socket (from 2011 or 2012). That has some advantages (if you want to install an "older" operating system like Windows 7) but maybe not anything you'd take advantage of. It should be fast enough for most adventure games. Most games depend more on the video card capability than the processor. There might eventually be some upcoming games that require a newer processor architecture, but I haven't seen any yet.

As for burning DVD's, we've been able to do that since the early 2000's. Make sure the computer has a DVD burner. You could use a USB DVD burner, but it's more convenient when it's built in.

The FX-6300 (and the A4-6300) don't have the so-called Ryzenfall processor flaws that HowToGeek discusses ***here***.

They have it at OfficeMax.

Doing a Google search for FX-6300 at officedepot.com (apparently they bought Office Max), nearly all computer listings were "no longer available." But I found this one
https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/832647/CyberPower-Gamer-Xtreme-Ultra-GUA600-Desktop/

If that's the one you're looking at, it would be fine specswise.
The GTX 1050 Ti with 4gb VRAM would be fine for adventure games.

Yes that's one of them. The other one,(Ryzen),is at the Cyberpower website. Both a little over $700.

What is the video card in the other one?

GeForce GT-1030

That's not nearly as good as the GTX 1050 Ti for games.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1050-Ti-vs-Nvidia-GT-1030/3649vsm283726

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-vs-GeForce-GT-1030

gpuboss doesn't even bother rating the GT 1030 for gaming.

Unless you're planning to replace the 1030 with something else, I wouldn't recommend that computer. If you are planning to replace the 1030 with something like a 1050 Ti, make sure the computer is capable of accepting the replacement.

I'm sure the GT 1030 is perfectly fine for hidden object games and those AGS-type adventure games with really low requirements. But it would probably chug for something like Edith Finch or Xing.

I agree complete with Jenny. Even for adventure gaming, it's all about the GPU. I definitely woulnd't recommend that GT 1030 either.