The AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive on 1800X, 1700X and 1700
by Ian Cutress on March 2, 2017 9:00 AM ESTTest Bed Setup and Hardware
As always, defining a regular test bed is key to these tests. At a CPU launch, with a new chipset, new socket, and almost new everything, that can be difficult. It’s also worth noting that our testing suite is currently in a state of flux as well, as we migrate testing to Windows 10. For the most part, our test beds use off-the-shelf components, sometimes supplied by vendors for the purpose of being in our test bed. For the Ryzen review, our AMD Test bed is as follows:
- AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (8C/16T, 3.6-4.0 GHz, 95W, $499)
- AMD Ryzen 7 1700X (8C/16T, , 95W, $399)
- AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (8C/16T, 3.0-3.7 GHz, 65W, $329)
- ASUS Crosshair VI Hero Motherboard
- Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB DDR4-3000 C16 running at DDR4-2400 C15
- Crucial MX200 1TB SSD
- Rosewill SilentNight 500W Platinum PSU
- ASUS GTX 950 Ti (95W)
- MSI GTX 1080 Gaming 8GB
- Windows 10 Pro
Of course, many thanks to all our partners who supplied equipment for our test beds.
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Notmyusualid - Sunday, March 5, 2017 - link
@ prisonerXPossibly, but with dollars in our pockets, that others want. Hence this product release.
prisonerX - Sunday, March 5, 2017 - link
Yes, obviously this product release was just for gamers. Thank you for proving my point.Notmyusualid - Monday, March 6, 2017 - link
You are most welcome!divertedpanda - Saturday, March 4, 2017 - link
I doubt gamers make a majority of the people who can afford $150+ CPUs... Content Creators/Prosumers probably make the bank for these kind of purchases....Notmyusualid - Monday, March 6, 2017 - link
@ Meteor2I do too.
nobodyblog - Friday, March 3, 2017 - link
AMD claimed that Every core is really one core, but now, we know it is at least two cores, because everything is more...It won't be able to be well in different scenarios specially in less threads and even gaming. I doubt their patch works.. It is very bad in IPC, and performance wise it is a garbage in 16 nm...
Thanks!
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nobodyblog - Friday, March 3, 2017 - link
I mean 14 nm FinFet..charliebi - Friday, March 3, 2017 - link
want to setup a gaming rig? Buy a 7700K, or better save something and buy a 7500 or 7600 and put the savings on a gtx 1080 ti. That's all gamers need to know.007ELmO - Friday, March 3, 2017 - link
what if I want to build 4 gaming rigs for a LAN? does the 1080ti and AMD chip run under 500W power requirement?Outlander_04 - Saturday, March 4, 2017 - link
Gamers , like everyone else, need to buy using their brains and not prejudices.First up decide if you are going to use a 1080p/ 60 Hz monitor . If you are then you do not need either an i7 7700 or a 1080ti .
If you want that resolution and you have a 144 hz monitor then there is a case for using an intel quad.
If you are gaming at 4K, 1440p or with a high resolution ultra wide then Ryzen will also do the job very well and be a far better encoder. For those users the AMD chip looks to be very very good v
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