The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review: Twelve Threads vs Four at $250
by Ian Cutress on April 11, 2017 9:00 AM ESTBenchmarking Performance: CPU Office Tests
The office programs we use for benchmarking aren't specific programs per-se, but industry standard tests that hold weight with professionals. The goal of these tests is to use an array of software and techniques that a typical office user might encounter, such as video conferencing, document editing, architectural modelling, and so on and so forth. At present we have two such tools to use.
PCMark8
Despite originally coming out in 2008/2009, Futuremark has maintained PCMark8 to remain relevant in 2017. On the scale of complicated tasks, PCMark focuses more on the low-to-mid range of professional workloads, making it a good indicator for what people consider 'office' work. We run the benchmark from the commandline in 'conventional' mode, meaning C++ over OpenCL, to remove the graphics card from the equation and focus purely on the CPU. PCMark8 offers Home, Work and Creative workloads, with some software tests shared and others unique to each benchmark set.
Chromium Compile (v56)
Our new compilation test uses Windows 10 Pro, VS Community 2015.3 with the Win10 SDK to combile a nightly build of Chromium. We've fixed the test for a build in late March 2017, and we run a fresh full compile in our test. Compilation is the typical example given of a variable threaded workload - some of the compile and linking is linear, whereas other parts are multithreaded.
SYSmark 2014 SE
SYSmark is developed by Bapco, a consortium of industry CPU companies. The goal of SYSmark is to take stripped down versions of popular software, such as Photoshop and Onenote, and measure how long it takes to process certain tasks within that software. The end result is a score for each of the three segments (Office, Media, Data) as well as an overall score. Here a reference system (Core i3-6100, 4GB DDR3, 256GB SSD, Integrated HD 530 graphics) is used to provide a baseline score of 1000 in each test.
A note on contect for these numbers. AMD left Bapco in the last two years, due to differences of opinion on how the benchmarking suites were chosen and AMD believed the tests are angled towards Intel processors and had optimizations to show bigger differences than what AMD felt was present. The following benchmarks are provided as data, but the conflict of opinion between the two companies on the validity of the benchmark is provided as context for the following numbers.
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Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
The main reason to buy a 7600K over Ryzen is so you can actually go above 4.1GHz. Given how easy it is to clock a 7600K at 4.7GHz or even higher, it is highly disingenuous to not include overclocked results on the graphs.sor - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
I think the overclocking niche is aware that they can do better. I agree that more data is better, but I certainly don't think there's any responsibility for Anandtech to provide overclocking results for either platform.Maybe they'll follow up with a comparison on how Ryzen 5 overclocked compared to the competition.
Meteor2 - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link
How much does OC'ing help? Presumably not at all with gaming unless you're on a 1080 or higher, and how does it help multi-threaded production workloads?Notmyusualid - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
My thoughts exactly - my buddies' 7600K runs 24/7 @ 5GHz, on a 240mm closed loop rad.It was the snappiest computer I've yet used...
dhotay - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
*shoo-inhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoo-in
Achaios - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
"We have already shown in previous reviews that the Zen microarchitecture from AMD is around the equivalent of Intel’s Broadwell microarchitecture"I don't think so, Ian. Case in point:
1. Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz- 4.50 GHz Turbo (KABY LAKE): 2,595 MARKS PASSMARK SINGLE THREADED
2. Intel Core i7-6950X @ 3.00GHz- 3.50 GHz Turbo (BROADWELL): 2,135 MARKS PASSMARK SINGLE THREADED
3. AMD 1800X 3.6 GHz - 4.0 GHz Turbo(RYZEN): 1,952 MARKS PASSMARK SINGLE THREADED
Out of curiosity, I benched my own 4770k at 4.5 GHZ, the frequency I game on:
4. Intel 4770K 3.50 GHz - 4.53 GHz OC (HASWELL): 2610 MARKS PASSMARK SINGLE THREADED
http://imgur.com/FrHmYlG
It's not even the bloody equivalent of Haswell, man, much less that of Broadwell.
sor - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
No, you're cherry picking. It's pretty well documented that IPC is about broadwell level, if you want to get into a benchmark posting war you'll run out of material far sooner. I can even find huge wins for Ryzen, but I'm not going to cherry pick those to try to show a big discrepancy.Achaios - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
How about you go ahead and cherrypick to prove me wrong on Single Threaded performance. Oh now wait, you can't b/c Ryzen is slow as molasses in January.https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Apart from WinrAR 5.2 that's pretty slippery molasses:http://www.zolkorn.com/en/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-vs-int...
fanofanand - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
And the cherry picking continues."How about you go ahead and cherrypick to prove me wrong on Single Threaded performance"