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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Lord-Bryan - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Ummmm Achaios, i don’t Anandtech is the right place, for all that sleazy fan war.ultima_trev - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
My 1800X gets 2,062 in Passmark single thread. Not that Passmark is the lone dictator of IPC.rarson - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
According to your data, Haswell IPC is equal to Kaby Lake IPC.Meteor2 - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link
Um, you need to divide by frequency to get IPC. Clue's in the name.Ammaross - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link
So, you're saying that your 4770K beat out a 7700K in single threaded. And now you argue "IPC" with this benchmark? Go home, you're drunk.zeeBomb - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
This is good. This is great...this is AWESOMEsor - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
This is pretty great. When Ryzen is behind, it is not often and not far. When it is ahead, it is far ahead.TadzioPazur - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
"Looking at the results, it’s hard to notice the effect that 12 threads has on multithreaded CPU tests."(..)it's hard NOT to notice(...)"?
bmasumian - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Your Amazon link to Ryzen 5 isn't working.AndrewJacksonZA - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Page 5 - FCAT - Graph Heading/Text ErrorThe text says "For our test, we take a 90-second clip of the Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark running on a GTX 980 Ti at 1440p"
but the graph heading says "System: FCAT Processing ROTR 1440p GTX1080 Data"