Over the last five years, it seems like pretty much everyone has, uh,
let's say noticed Intel's consumer division's "tick, tick, tick, tick, eventually talk"
approach to generational performance improvements, including folks at AMD.
But then, on the surface,
AMD seems to have pulled a page
right out of Intel's playbook with their "second-generation" AMD Ryzen
desktop processors.
But is there more to these than meets the eye
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So what's the deal here?
Is AMD replacing Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5, and Ryzen 7 with Ryzen 2?
Mmm, not quite.
While these are "second generation,"
The Ryzen 7 2700 X and the Ryzen 5 2600 X
clocking in at eight and six course respectively are not technically as n -
That's not going to come until later
so what we're getting now are higher boost clocks with XF are applying to all cores and
this one's pretty exciting up to a 34 percent improvement to cache latency with AMD claiming a
theoretical three percent performance bump from that second point alone
We're also getting up to dual-channel ddr4
2933 support on the brand-new
x4 70 chipset motherboards
Which from even our early testing translates into much better compatibility with high-speed memory kits
So all of this adds up to something that AMD is calling
Zen + based on a tweaked 12 nanometer process that's been
fine-tuned to push rated clock speeds higher
Without increasing the rated power consumption. Now of course, we're gonna have to test all these claims so
while we wait for this to
Rise
It's a yeast joke
Let's go over our test setup
We'll be using both Intel's latest and AMD's previous gen consumer processors
which, uh
It's done already
Go ahead and cut oh my god
This joke is so -
I'm sorry that whole thing with the oven was just a lead-in to a joke about...
mmm delicious Ryzen crust; why don't we just get into the benchmarks?
starting with our gaming stuff
And
Yes more terrible puns
How surp-Ryzen (surprising)
Ryzen
Second-gen is ever so slightly faster than Ryzen first-gen
Deus Ex mankind divided barely cared, Far Cry 5 actually got five to seven more fps and CS:GO
Actually, this one was a standout. Very nice.
The differences, though, are less noticeable in 3d mark and Unigine superposition putting second gen close enough that we
technically observed higher numbers on our first-gen chip
And of course when it comes to gaming intel still steals the show.
Nowm let's move on to productivity here things take
a more dramatic swing
So our 2700X absolutely creams the last gen 1800X in our testing
With significantly higher scores in Cinebench and Asus RealBench and shaving a cool 1 minute 11
seconds off the classroom render time in blender the 1800X already beat out the core i7
8700K and most of these so the gap then is that much wider this time around
impressive, and it looks like at least some of this is due to the improvements to cache latency with our testing a knight of
64 showing a pretty significant improvement of around
25% with higher bandwidth and improved memory latency to boot
Of course
What would a review of a new CPU be without?
Overclocking results, let's go to level 3 bad
so our 2600 X
Still didn't want to play a ball with our pre-release firmware, but our
2,700 X with the auto tweak feature gave us predictably better results
Although these games are mainly limited to highly threaded workloads
Lightly threaded or gaming workloads understandably actually suffer slightly compared to the 100 megahertz
faster stock XF our clocks
Power consumption is still higher than coffee lake, but that's not really a surprise
What is interesting is that under load our new chips are more?
Power-hungry we think because precision boosts to is keeping the CPU at higher speeds more often
This also translates into higher temperatures, which means we wouldn't really recommend
Doing a ton of overclocking with your stock cooler as cool as the new wraith max RGB coolers might be
so then at
329$ for the high-end verizon 720 700 x
And
229 for the six-core Ryzen 520 600 X both of them $30 more than their non x counterparts
AMD has managed to claw back a bit of the bang for the buck
proposition that they enjoyed with rise ins first generation release and perhaps more importantly
even though this is a new CPU
And
chipset the obvious stability issues with high-speed memory in particular
That prevented us from making a clear recommendation last time around
argon
So let's not kid ourselves. This is every bit as incremental as Intel's move from skylake to KB Lake
And
we are disappointed that it's not Zen to yet, but
Second generation Ryzen is a bit more worth your money than last time which is a good thing
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