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.
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Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
especially in the powerdraw and heat class it dominates even my oven....AntDX316 - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
The new processors are in totally another level/league/class. It dominates in everything and more except a couple benches. If you try to compare by price you can't. It would make no sense.Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
it makes sense.. for everyone except stupid fanboys.Hxx - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
so people are getting pissed because these CPUs perform well albet at a much higher price tag. Sounds like a bunch of AMD fanboys.Its new tech, highest performing, and serving a very niche market. Of course is at a premium price. why wouldn't it be? Luckily, these are not needed for the majority so I am not sure why people get so worked up about it. If you want intel then 7700k is a fantasic $300 CPU. If you want AMD then again the 1700 is also a fantastic CPU. end of story
Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
i personally don´t care about price... my PC´s earn the money back i spend.but saying we can´t compare price/performance form skylake-x and ryzen is just plain stupid.
of course we can.
and we can also compare price/performance when threadripper is released... the real competition to x299.
Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
by the way.. what about the RUMORS that coffee lake will be 6 cores... but no hyperthreading?that would be EXACVTLY what i expect from intel.
Intredpid3d - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
Why did you use Intel's compiler for your reviews? with all the other compilers out there that work beautifully with Ryzen why did you use the one that is known to be deliberately coded to work very badly on anything other than its creators products, Intel.?
johnp_ - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
Were did they use Intel's icc? The Chromium compile test was done using VS Community 2015.3.tamalero - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
Thats the interesting thing, in a lot of reviews online.. there are 3 variations of the same test.1) stock I9 7900
2) optimized compiler I9 7900
3) Oced I9 7900
the optimized one yields like 10% higher on average more performance.
johnp_ - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link
2) is not possibly for a Chromium compile test, as that has a hard dependency on Visual Studio 2015 U3 and 3) first requires overclocking, for which they didn't have enough time yet.Regarding higher performance, I expect you mean compiled programs reaching higher performance and not the compilation process requiring less time (which is what anandtech measures here and that's the relevant bit for developers).