you came here for the gaming benchmarks
you could have just nabbed to a few
websites and check graphs but you
decided to click on this video and I
appreciate that so we're gonna jump
straight into it in this video the Rison
730 700 X was put through the ringer on
a couple of different formats first a
stock configuration bundled with a
gigabyte X 570 or master this was the
motherboard used for our 2700 X as well
a separate video will be uploaded within
the week pertaining to our X 470 testing
and then another for a few be 350 and
450 boards with supporting UEFI s ii
config for the 3700 x included a manual
overclock now how far could I go well
you might be just a little disappointed
at least with my sample seems I didn't
win the silicon lottery here 4.3
gigahertz at 1.41 volts a turbo lock
load line calibration and aggressive erm
preset not much more I can do here and
4.4 gigahertz wasn't gonna happen I was
pushing one point almost 1.5 volts so
yeah but who knows you might get lucky
and I'm sure other viewers had different
albeit probably similar outcomes now the
same XMP profile was configured for
every tested CPU you'll see in this
video that's the 2700 X 3700 X and 9900
K 3.6 gigahertz for our 16 gig kit of
dual channel Trident II ddr4 from
g.skill this should be sufficient
combination of high frequency and low
caste to benefit infinity fabric latency
dependencies as they pertain to both our
2,700 X and 3700 X although the
implementations are slightly different
due to the shift in architecture and SOC
layout our graphics card of choice was
in videos our TX 2080 this particular
variant is from Asus and it was reviewed
in this video right here if you're
interested the boot drive utilized was a
2 terabyte MP 6 under from Corsair which
is a PCI 4 compatible m-dot to the
operating system was reinstalled for
each CPU swap that's Windows 10 Pro to
eliminate software and Driver conflicts
and all games were loaded from a 2
terabyte WD blue hard drive
alright with all of that out of the way
let's dive into the benchmarks here a
couple of synthetic tests for a frame of
reference first in Cinebench our 20 our
2,700 X farad single and multi Horus
cores at stock of 433 and 4097
respectively not bad this is with core
performance boost enabled which
effectively allows you CPUs to reach
rated boost speeds out of the box
without violating power limits disabling
this would be the near equivalent of
disabling turbo boost and Intel CPUs and
no one's gonna do that now with a manual
4.2 gig overclock our single core
dropped slightly that's a phenomena we
explained in a previous video which you
can check out right here
however our multi-core rose to 4223 the
3700 ex though radically improved things
across the board at stock things jumped
by 61 points to almost 500 and when
overclocked a score of nearly 5,000 was
achieved the 99 K the previous single
core champ retains its lead but only
slightly at 509 this was with MCE or
multi-core enhancement disabled by the
way our manual overclocked to 5
gigahertz across all eight cores pick
things up just a bit but it is worth
noting that the 3700 X comes awfully
close to matching Intel's Core I 9
Geekbench 4 was the other synthetic I
wanted to run before games here a
similar result holds the Cora 9 was a
bit faster overall in single core tests
but the gap AMD is narrowed here with
this launch is definitely showing and
worth noting in 3dmark times by the 2700
X's CPU score came back at 85 84 its
stock 88 57 1 overclocked a similar
margin was observed for the 3700 X
albeit with higher scores overall and
interestingly enough a 9900 case scored
lower at stock than the 3700 X in this
test after averaging 3 runs this
flip-flop in our overclock scenarios
with a 9900 K squeaking out at nearly
300 point lead but had our 3700 X been a
better overclocker I imagine the red
team would have taken this one as well
grand theft auto 5 while optimized
fairly well has always been a bit Intel
biased however the times have definitely
turned with this latest launch 3,700 X
average 147 FPS at stock only 12 fps
lower than the 9900 K at these very high
frame rates considering this titles and
harun preference for the latter
I'd say this is a pretty darn good
result frame x indicates similar degrees
of micro stutter the one thing I'd call
odd though is the fact that this game
performs significantly better overall at
stock in our case for the 3,700 X right
so our lowest point one percent of
frames average 13 fps lower when over
suggesting heavy use of one or two cores
and under such situations the chips max
boost clock of 4.4 gigahertz would come
in handy it's only a hundred megahertz
Delta but it can help I'm gonna take it
if I can I can get it right
our testing confirms that rarely hits
this frequency but the smoothness of
this title at stock is undeniable shadow
of the Tomb Raider you lose interesting
results the 3700 X came out on top
overall but struggled slightly under
harsher load tense the slightly lower
95% averages ultimately side by side it
be near impossible to tell these two
apart actually I'd be willing to say
it's impossible they both look really
good and that's a good thing because the
3700 X is significantly cheaper than the
9900 K currently and significantly
better than the 2700 X in this
particular title the Resident Evil 2 is
next here without a doubt AMD CPU can
take the cake in fact I averaged higher
frame rates for the 2700 X than I did
with the 9900 K this is running through
the exact same checkpoints in the game
so I tried to get this as repetitive as
possible at stock the 9900 K really
struggled by comparison although I doubt
anyone's really gonna complain about a
200 FPS average overclock scenarios by
the way fared better across the board in
the balanced preset now another game I
like the test because it struggles
constantly with optimization parameters
is pub G 1% and point one percent lows
tanked hard in this case and you can see
did me just by how hard they tank that
these CPUs really struggle the handle
adverse situations and games were an
optimization is subpar until one on the
lower end with dips that weren't as
steep overall but 3700 X kept up and
nearly matched the blue team for the
overall average and the lowest 1% of
frames basically what this graph tells
us is that all three chips had
infrequent stuttering issues the 9900 K
just didn't stutter as hard for as long
is this a deal-breaker if your pub G
junkie in my book know the AMD CPU would
still be a fine choice I tested
fortnight to appease the younger
audience or majority of the people
playing would probably be younger I
absolutely hate this game and I only
play it for benchmarking purposes so if
you have to excuse my slow mechanics
please do so I landed on top of the same
building every time and I ran the same
route I also try to sync up the time of
day in game because some games tend to
perform worse or better and at night so
on average the 9800 K edged out a
victory but again only by a few FPS this
trend continues to the lowest point 1%
of frames so I highly doubt anyone would
be able to distinguish the two here even
with frames being drawn on screen I
should also note that our 2700 X fared
pretty well here and suffered only
slightly among the lowest point 1% of
frames when manually overclocked so if
you're a huge fortnight fan and that's
pretty much all you play and maybe
you're into streaming or something
similar the 2700 X at a deep discount
which we expect these prices to Canadia
to drop just as the originals then did
this chip might be worth considering
over the more expensive processors so
it's just food for thought you have
alternatives out there now what your
three tends to be more graphically
intensive than anything else with a few
exceptions and our narrower margins
reflect this every CPU fared well in the
high preset in 1080p at 99 hundred K
came out on top by around 7 at 10 FPS
but this is really nothing to flip out
about when or you know in a 200 FPS
range on average perhaps more
importantly the lowest 1% and 0.1% of
frames the 3700 X nearly matched the
9900 K for the lowest 1% and fell just
shy among the lowest 0.1% visually you'd
be hard-pressed to discern the tube so
I'd call this a tie f1 2017 though a
couple of years old by this point still
exhibits a solid balance between
multi-core and single query optimization
tends not to be as rough as f1 2018 in
my experience 3,700 X average between
175 and 177 FPS on average compared to
190 and 193 for the 9900 K although the
former absolutely crushed the latter
among the lowest point 1 percent of
frames now I'm not entirely sure what
we're wrong here but this occurred
several times with no outliers at all
alright so that's why I included it I'm
not gonna keep those results from you I
just I haven't fully understood why the
core and I did so much worse here
typically it's the better CPU I feel
really bad about this next benchmark
because it absolutely crushed every
sleepy way through it universe sandbox
twos earth and many moon simulation
wrecks pretty much every CPU on the
market to an extent and you can see our
thread utilizations were
pretty high throughout the 9800 K
average 71 FPS when overclocked but
dipped to an average of 18 FPS for the
lowest 0.1% of frames the 3700 X had a
lower overall average but struggled to
the same extent under the worst
conditions namely when the moon's
orbiting Earth first collide and that
looks like this yeah
pretty choppy obviously this was the
most intense section of the benchmark
lastly ashes of a singularity CPU
benchmark reveals just how big
difference frequency can make 59 verse
48 might seem small on paper but
remember we're talking about lower frame
rates overall so the deltas
percentage-wise are greater and you'd
probably be able to see the difference
on screen the 9900 K took this one with
ease but let's be real I mean how many
of you actually played ashes of the
singularity so that's that now I know I
could have tested the 9700 K probably
would have been a better price
comparison with this chip here but the
point is this ship competes with Intel's
$450 CPU I mean almost neck and neck
throughout and this is considerably
cheaper you're gonna save around 150
bucks with this chip here the 3,800 X is
also an option a bit higher boost clocks
out of the box potentially more
overclocking Headroom but in a nutshell
I mean if this is anything like Zen plus
or even the original Zen lineup the 3700
X is going to be probably the better
bargain I mean if you want to pay
another 50 bucks for an extra hundred or
so megahertz be my guest but I'm not
saying these things overclocking much
more than around four point four 4.5 if
you're really lucky so yeah I mean the
obvious conclusion that I've come to is
the name DS done a heck of a job with
the 3700 X power draw is incredibly low
package power topped out at around a
hundred watts and I was reading around
six to seven amps under full load across
a clamp meter this is a 65 watt TDP chip
after all the 790 meter orthography
works wonders for temperatures as well
while gaming this thing remained under
70 degrees actually it was easy to say
under that sometimes it was under 60
degrees Celsius we can believe that with
our kraken x 62 as a 360 millimeter AIO
after heat soak and it idled well under
40 degrees celsius confirmed through
hardware monitor MSI Afterburner and CPU
Z so really the only thing I can
complain about here is the overclocking
potential I talked to a few other
reviewers
to launch and most of them expressed
similar to stayin with this now I hit
and we gotten this to like 4.6 or 4.7
gigahertz across all a course this thing
would have slayed the 9900 K and nearly
everything but as of right now we've got
one heck of an octa-core CPU here for a
little over 300 USD and that'll save you
over a hundred bucks again when forgoing
the 9900 Kay it'll almost break you even
compared to the 9700 K but the 9700 K
doesn't have multi-threading or Intel
hyper-threading this does SMT baked-in
16 threads in total it's gonna be a heck
of a productivity CPU as well so going
forward it's gonna be difficult to
recommend until sporty nanometers stuff
I mean the presence of an IEP is
definitely a plus for a few niche
circumstances which will explain again
in our productivity benchmark video but
for a majority of you who game stream
and content create with a discrete GPU
of 3700 X is an incredible value it
really is it's honestly what Intel
should have priced their latest 8 core
CPUs act if the 9800 K was a little over
300 bucks like the old-school i7s and
well this is the first eye 9 but you
know what I mean then it would be a
toss-up and at that point I would
probably still promote the nineteen
hundreds the better CPU to buy because
you're also getting an IG P in there and
that's just an added bonus for people
again that do some productivity work
that requires it but at this price I
mean you're getting so much performance
it's it's it's impossible I mean if for
me it's it's very difficult to recommend
an equivalent Intel CPU what I mean by
equivalent is something with a similar
number of cores and similar performance
in games so yeah I mean until Intel does
something about its prices there's no
way I mean gamers should almost
exclusively consider it is then - stay
tuned for a 3900 X review by the way
because that's gonna be interesting as
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next few days the 9 and the 3900 X is
coming up next and I'm sorry I had to
break this up into two videos there's
just a ton of stuff to do and I wanted
to get this out on launch day so stay
tuned for the 3900 X review tomorrow but
we've got other stuff we've got the Navi
stuff coming we're doing a lot of really
cool experiments with these CPU so you
guys can see how far these can go we're
gonna look at the power and voltage
you know the relationship between both
of those when we overclock and see how
that varies from ship to ship we're also
going to be testing these CPUs in B 350
and B 450 boards for those who have
those boards currently and maybe don't
want to upgrade motherboards I don't
blame you
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