what a roller coaster ride
the ryzen launch has been between the
hype and the run-up to its launch
and amd's stern refusal to reveal
any but the barest details everybody is
talking about ryzen
but could anything live up to this
level of expectation
let's find out
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in the video description meet zen
amd's brand new cpu architecture
the ryzen 7 flavor of which is launching
today
it sports eight cores each with smt
so similar to intel's hyper threading
and
boasts a whopping 52
improvement in instructions per clock
over amd's
previous best and a tdp of only 65 to 95
watts that is a big shot across intel's
bow
especially considering the ryzen 7 has
been positioned
as performance competitive with the
enthusiast class
core i7 6800k and 6900k
six and eight core chips that intel
rates at 140 watts
so how did amd do it well there's a lot
of
nitty gritty that we won't get too deep
into but here's the tldr
amd's sense mi allows the processor to
thoroughly monitor itself accurate to
within a milliamp
millivolt milliwatt and single degree
celsius
1 000 times per second amd's precision
boost
uses that data along with individual
testing at the factory to determine the
ideal clock frequency
within 25 megahertz steps for optimal
performance
even going as far as to boost beyond the
rated speed
using extended frequency range or xfr
add that to their infinity fabric
scalable high-speed interconnect
smarter branch prediction a smarter
neural net inspired prefetch
and a more efficient cache setup and
you've got a very oversimplified
nutshell version of ryzen
of course its performance would be
meaningless if it weren't
priced competitively and boy howdy is it
ever
currently the most expensive cpu in the
range is 499 us which might seem
like a lot if you compare it to intel's
mainstream flagship
core i7 7700k at 349.
but amd reckons their top dog is more
comparable to the core i7
6900k a 1050 dollar
chip of course with their history of
hype training the bananas out of
mediocore
cpu releases we can't just take amd's
word for any of this
so let's dive straight into the moment
you've all been waiting for
hands on with ryzen
we'll be pitting ryzen 7 against rival's
core i7
6900k 6800k and
7700k and for fun we've also thrown in
the core i5
7600k and dusted off our
fx 8350 with each bench kitted out with
a titan xp
and 32 gigs of g skill memory
shout out at this point to asus for
providing
and helping us learn the ins and outs of
their rog crosshair
6 hero built with amd's x370 chipset
the first new enthusiast chipset since
2011 for amd
and a few special asus twists like their
native usb 3.1 front panel connector
comprehensive overclocking and tweaking
tool set rsync rgb lighting
compatibility with am3 and am4 cooler
holes
and their new s1220 audio solution
it should be noted that you won't need
the more expensive x370
unless crossfire and sli support is
important to you
but in spite of all of asus's help think
back to that asterisk about 30 seconds
ago
while i would love to say that the early
rumors of am4 having difficulty hitting
higher memory frequencies were
greatly exaggerated our 1800x chip
managed a mere 26
66 megahertz with multiple kits
including the ones supplied by amd
any higher no post we hope this can be
ironed out in firmware
but with how heavily amd zen
architecture relies on fast
low latency ram to keep the course fed
our scores for synthetic benchmarks in
particular
might suffer a little bit kicking off
our testing
we have y cruncher at 50 million digits
of delicious pie
the 1800x doesn't fare so well in the
single threaded test
but pulls just ahead of the 7600k
in the multi-threaded one this test is
ram intensive though
so this lower than expected result isn't
surprising
cinebench being much closer to a real
world workload paints a more optimal
picture with ryzen actually
beating out the 6900k in the
multi-threaded test
and coming in just under in the single
threaded test
cpu mark's single threaded test puts
ryzen back at the bottom of our
modern cpus while in the overall it
slips in
neatly between the 6900 and 6800k
moving on to 7-zip ryzen killed it
coming in
well above all but the 6900k
and pc mark tells a similar tale with
amd's ryzen 7 flagship
outperforming the x99 chips in both
tests
though it should be noted that pc mark's
lightly multi-threaded workload
definitely favors the 7700k blistering
clock speeds
real bench continues the overall trend
although we see ryzen
stumble with heavy multitasking here a
potential ram speed limitation
while an adobe media encoder ryzen 7 and
the x99 chips
are very competitive addo reveals
no obvious storage bottleneck with
similar if slightly lower results to our
intel test benches
and then moving on to gaming deus ex
mankind divided
shows a fairly tight race with ryzen in
the middle rise of the tomb raider sees
ryzen
rise to the occasion to take top spot
which it managed to hold
in an older title crisis 3.
moving on to a more esports oriented
title we tested cs go
specifically with chips that represent
the best
single threaded performance that intel
has to offer today
and that amd has today and before the
launch of verizon
unsurprisingly if you're running a 240hz
monitor like this one from asus that we
checked out before
and your pc's purpose is pure frame
pushing
the 7700k might not look
quite as obsolete as amd would like it
to
for our streaming test we gave it a
worst case scenario with ashes of the
singularities
cpu-focused benchmark both with
and without obs recording in the
background
we compared the recording performance to
streaming
and it was the same and at twitch
quality we see that actually none of our
cpus
really had a hard time with this over
just running the benchmark
the 6900k runs away with this one while
the poor fx
8350 wishes we'd left it on the shelf
compared to intel quick sync encoding
the output from our
x264 testing is quite a bit clearer to
my eyes
but go ahead and pause the video to take
a close look
at this blown up shot to judge for
yourself let us know if you'd like us to
dig
deeper into streaming in the comments
below because amd was showing ryzen just
butt kicking the 7700k so did amd come
out of nowhere then
leap frog intel on performance and
disrupt the market
well yes no and
yes art
our testing shows the top end 1800x
sitting between the 6900k and 7700k
when it comes to single-threaded
performance and hovering around but not
quite
matching the 6900k in our multi-threaded
tests
there's no question here that heavier
users
will love amd right now for bringing
more affordability to high core count
chips
without the massive power draw and
single threaded compromises
that existed before and as for coming
out of nowhere with this
that definitely happened but i'm
actually not sure who gets the credit
for
ryzen 7's disruptive positioning is it
amd
for coming in and giving the consumer
nearly twice
the performance per dollar value of a
6900k
or is it intel for stubbornly refusing
to acknowledge the benefits
of more cores for the mainstream
consumer
and creating a confusing product stack
where bang for the buck varies
so dramatically within their own
products
they handed amd's marketing department
a lot of firepower here by allowing them
to
bang me twice the value of the 6900k
drum while conveniently ignoring that
intel also produces chips that deliver
twice the value of a 6900k or more
guess that's neither here nor there
though the major takeaway here
isn't that the 1800x devoured all in its
path
but that as amd used to be so good at
doing
they've identified a market segment
where no
directly competing product really exists
and engineered a solution enthusiasts
looking for
something bigger than a 7700k
but not wanting to lose single threaded
performance
and eat nothing but instant noodles for
a year by stepping up to a 6900k
will be delighted with the ryzen 7
lineup
meanwhile professionals who don't need
eight ram slots or thunderbolt
will also find a cpu that performs
better than intel's mainstream while
lacking a couple of extras
very appealing and all of this ignores
too
the six core and four core zen core
solutions
that are coming later on this year to
disrupt intel's core i5
and core i3 products so amd fans rejoice
then
with ryzen amd is back in a big way
and even if you're on team blue you
should be happy too
because competition is always good for
the consumer
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