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The 1800X does seem like a killer value for the money for us C++ people :)
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…
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R7 1700 i7 7700K
Cinebench 120 W 112 W
Prime 95 128 W 145 WDo 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.
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?
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.
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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?
I do understand where you're coming from, but real-world performance is important, especially when that world is imperfect.
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computerbase.de has here: https://www.computerbase.de/2017-03/amd-ryzen-1800x-1700x-17... R7 1700 i7 7700K Cinebench 120 W 112 W Prime 95 128 W 145 W
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?
> ... this means that the base memory controller in the silicon should be able to support ECC. We know that it is disabled for the consumer parts, but nothing has been said regarding the Pro parts. ECC should be a standard feature. If you don't want it you don't have to use it but to disable simply for market segmentation is lame.
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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.