![]() The chip immediately picks up the energy level and joins the peloton. Our Ryzen 7 1800X chip sits a little higher, at 3,975MHz, and where we have them, we’ve included results from the 4.4GHz overclocked Core i7-6950X in the Origin Millenium, and the overclocked 5.0GHz Intel Core i7-7700K in the Digital Storm Velox.Īfter overclocking the snot out of the Ryzen 7 1700, performance improves dramatically. We’re using a Noctua NH-U12S to cool the chip, a beefy air cooler with a generous heatsink and 120mm fan. We might’ve been able to push higher by bumping the voltage further, but at 1.35V, we were starting to get nervous about frying this low-power chip. We slowly bumped the clock speed and voltage on our Ryuntil we felt we had reached a stable 3,850MHz overclock. AMD’s Ryzen Master, which you can read about more on our Ryzen 7 1800X review, has taken the process out of the BIOS, which can be daunting for the uninitiated, and brought it into an easy to use piece of software. Pushing a chip outside its normal performance boundaries has long been a pursuit of the tinkerer looking to squeeze more productivity out of their hardware. If gaming is all you plan on doing with your system, it’s hard to argue Intel’s Core lineup aren’t still a better choice. Most modern games don’t use more than four cores, and the Intel Core i7-7700K’s first four are faster than the Ryzen 7 1700’s. However, the overall victory here goes to the Intel Core i7-7700K, depending on the game. The 3DMark synthetic Time Spy test is almost a tie from all sides, which is evidence that neither chip is a bottleneck for the GPU. It’s much more prominent in Sid Meier’s Civilization VI than it is in more graphics-heavy games like For Honor. That means the sprawling Ryis at a disadvantage, and the Core i7-7700K’s higher clock speed packs a lot more punch.ĭepending on the title, the difference between the two is either a wash, or an advantage for the Intel Core i7-7700K. PC gaming remains one of the most prominent uses of high-end hardware in home systems, and unfortunately for AMD, it’s also a task that rarely uses more than four cores. Of course, one of the biggest questions about Ryzen is whether it fits into the gaming world, or whether Intel still has a stranglehold on that market. Even somewhat competitive performance is a pleasant surprise. Particularly when you consider the Ryzen’s price point, which is less than one fifth the Intel flagship. It can’t keep up with Intel’s Core i7-6950X of course, but it doesn’t go down without a fight. The Rysteals a victory from its rival, the Core i7-7700K, in both the GeekBench 4 multi-core test, and the 7-Zip compression/decompression task. The Ryoffers the best value of any of AMD’s new chips.Īs you might expect, the Ryzen chips’ extra cores allow them to take a strong lead in any test that makes efficient use of them. There are minor advantages on both sides, so let’s see how things shake out. The Ryboasts a 4MB L2 cache, and a 16MB 元 cache, over twice the 8MB of Smart Cache found in the Intel offering. ![]() More cores means lower speed across the board, and the Rydoubles the Core i7-7700K’s core count, so each core in the AMD chip runs quite a bit slower. ![]() That’s at the top end of what we’d recommend for most users anyway, and right off the bat, the Intel chip claims a 4.2GHz base clock - a full 500MHz faster than the Ryzen’s boost clock.īut it isn’t a fair fight. The Ryzen 7 1700’s obvious competitor is Intel’s Core i7-7700K, which retails for around $350. With such watered-down numbers, the Ryis starting to look less appealing. Total power draw tends to have a noticeable effect on performance, and on a chip’s overclocking ability. Perhaps more importantly, the Ryonly has a 65-watt Thermal Design Power, compared to the 95-watt TDP found on the 1700X and 1800X. Without it, the 1700 maxes out at its stated Precision Boost speed (unless you overclock it, of course). This feature falls somewhere between Intel’s Turbo Boost and an auto-overclock in concept, squeezing a bit of extra clock speed from Ryzen when thermals and power allows. The lack of an “X” at the end of its SKU signifies it’s missing Extended Frequency Range. There are some key differences between the high-end 1800X and the more modest Ryzen 7 1700. ![]()
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