The Intel Skylake-X Review: Core i9 7900X, i7 7820X and i7 7800X Tested
by Ian Cutress on June 19, 2017 9:01 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.
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.
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.
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 context 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.
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
264 Comments
View All Comments
Icehawk - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
I'm curious to see AMD's response w/Threadripper but the 7820 is looking like the next CPU for me, I'm still on a 3770k and while it is just fine for gaming I've been converting all of my media to x265 and need a lot more muscle to speed that along. I do wish that heat was better controlled as my current system is near silent with a fanless PSU, an AiO water cooler, no mech drives, etc and overclocked to 4.4ghz.Pieter123456 - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
Funny how you did not hold of on making a verdict when there were bios and 1080p gaming issues with ryzen launch??!Flying Aardvark - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
Intel pays well for such courtesies. AMD, not so much. I heard people saying Ryzen was released defective.So the conclusion that AT should be making is that the new i7 and i9 lineup was released as defective.
tamalero - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
I heard you, I still remember how fanboys and some "socialites" of the hardware sites bashed AMD nonstop on other issues, like the voltage issues on the Polaris chips.Nvidia has a problem too, and they arent even close to be that harsh.
Ryzen's cache issue? THE WORLD IS ENDING FOR AMD!!!
Intel's drop in performance core per core in some things? "not that bad, balance, etc..etc.."
Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
the biggest issue is this insane heat skylake-x produces when overclocked.the bios issues can be resolved.
that anandtech is more biased towards intel should come as no surprise.
tamalero - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
I noticed that, there is a huge difference in the wording on this article vs the one in tomshardware.And both show very different outcomes.
Specially in overclocking and power consumption. Where the corei9 is ridiculously inefficient.
Luckz - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
"there is a huge difference in the wording"And knowing Tomshardware from decades ago, I would have expected the exact opposite.
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
To be clear here, our Ryzen article didn't have any gaming coverage either.http://www.anandtech.com/show/11170/the-amd-zen-an...
That launch was based solely on desktop usage & compute, in big part because there were so many weird things going on with gaming. In this article we actually went one step further by specifically recommending that gamers not buy SKL-X for the time being.
Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
but no really critical word about the crazy temps.how i am supposed to cool this cpu on air?
and no real critic that intel uses stupid thermal paste..... overall the critical stuff like crippled PCI lanes need to be adressed more agressive.
tamalero - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
The TDP differences are insane!