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AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by robotmay »

The 1700 is really well placed, often seems to beat the i7 7700k in benchmarks whilst drawing less power and costing roughly the same/cheaper. Probably even better value if the stock coolers are as solid as they sound. Definitely going to be a popular chip with gamers (I'm very tempted myself).

Hopefully more software starts to make use of multiple cores more effectively. It's not like it's a new feature of chips any more.

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

#13

Post by geezerjay »

yread wrote: post #4
vxxzy wrote: post #2

Wow. AMD has really pulled through on this one. They are really giving Intel a run for their money. This is going to be great for consumers. What is interesting is the HUGE jump in multi-threaded performance on AMD. Very interesting.

But it's still losing in every web and office single threaded benchmark. EDIT: compared to 7700k that costs about the same

> But it's still losing in every web and office single threaded benchmark.

Web and office? Single-threaded?

Why are these benchmarks, specially in 2018?

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by raverbashing »

yread wrote: post #4
vxxzy wrote: post #2

Wow. AMD has really pulled through on this one. They are really giving Intel a run for their money. This is going to be great for consumers. What is interesting is the HUGE jump in multi-threaded performance on AMD. Very interesting.

But it's still losing in every web and office single threaded benchmark. EDIT: compared to 7700k that costs about the same

Yeah, like I'm going to buy a new computer to open PDF files, not to play games, render graphics or do complex simulations

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by Vanayad »

Analemma_ wrote: post #6
yread wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's still losing in every web and office single threaded benchmark. EDIT: compared to 7700k that costs about the same

They're coming in at half the price of equivalent Intel chips. They don't need to win, necessarily (which I didn't think was going to happen), they need to be competitive for a lot less money. EDIT, in response to the other edit: sorry about that, I wasn't sure which comparison you were making. Still, the difference is slim enough that if I were in the market, I'd go with this one just to put the heat on Intel.

You do have to consider that this is an 8 core, and more and more applications are being developed with this in mind. Whoever still thinks that Single threaded performance is the most important, lives in the past.

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by simias »

daxfohl wrote: post #12

Do they ever do compiler speed tests or boot speed tests? Which of the existing ones would be most similar?

Boot speed in my experience is mostly i/o bound so I doubt it makes a significant difference over a similar Intel chip. Is boot performance still an issue nowadays anyway? Since I've switched to SSDs all my computers boot up in a few seconds (Linux or Windows). And if you hibernate instead of shutting down it's even faster.

Compiler tests sound more interesting to me, I'm looking forward to those benchmarks.

Re: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

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Post by MikusR »

robotmay wrote: post #11

The 1700 is really well placed, often seems to beat the i7 7700k in benchmarks whilst drawing less power and costing roughly the same/cheaper. Probably even better value if the stock coolers are as solid as they sound. Definitely going to be a popular chip with gamers (I'm very tempted myself). Hopefully more software starts to make use of multiple cores more effectively. It's not like it's a new feature of chips any…

Which review has power usage comparison?
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