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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wolfemane - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
First off, comments like yours contribute to absolutely nothing. Making whatever you say completely useless and more appropriate for deleting rather than individuals coming to conclusions based on what they read. At least they are posting on the topic at hand.Second, I read the article, and it was well done. My comments were directed at the very end of their conclusion and was basing my comments on a review that came out a few months after the original ryzen review. I got my articles mixed up, owned up to my mistake, and apologized.
What are you doing? Trolling....? How about adding something creative to the conversation instead of posting utterly pointless and useless dribble? Grow the F up.
Ryan Smith - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
Wolfe, nested comments only display to 5 deep. They were responding to cheshirster, not you.=)bongey - Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - link
Don't be, they hammered Ryzen in gaming performance in their conclusion, even without benchmarks.That is clear evidence of shilling for Intel, following a narrative without any evidence."Gaming Performance, particularly towards 240 Hz gaming, is being questioned,"
"AMD has a strong workstation core "
cheshirster - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
See herehttp://www.anandtech.com/show/11244/the-amd-ryzen-...
fullhd
i5 7600 - 139fps
1800X - 99fps
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11244/the-amd-ryzen-...
Rocker League fulhd
i5 7500 - 188fps
1800X - 132fps
And now they write
"Our GTX1080 seems to be hit the hardest out of our four GPUs, as well as Civilization 6, the second Rise of the Tomb Raider test, and Rocket League on all GPUs. As a result, we only posted a minor selection of results, most of which show good parity at 4K"
RoTR and GL, same games, same bad results, just different brands and now they are not going to publish them.
Ryan Smith - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
It's important to note that the articles you quote are from the Ryzen 5 launch, which was over a month after the X370 platform. A lot of Ryzen's issues had been fixed in the weeks before.bongey - Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - link
In your conclusion intel shill"Gaming Performance, particularly towards 240 Hz gaming, is being questioned,"
"AMD has a strong workstation core "
koomba - Thursday, July 6, 2017 - link
Uhh, not sure what you are remembering, but Anandtechs initial Ryzen review most certainly did NOT include gaming benchmark.I think it's slightly amusing how many people here in the comments immediately jumped down the reviewers throat over no gaming reviews and the reason given for that. And then they proceed to spin that into some kind of perceived bias against Ryzen, like the author has some AMD bashing agenda.
You, and several others, are literally inventing "facts" to support accusations of bias and unequal treatment. Then to top it off, trying to say Anandtech reviewers are fan boys.
But in reality, the entire basis of all these claims of bias, etc is completely fabricated. So much for all that huh? Almost seems like overly defensive, some might even say fan boy behavior. Irony is present. lol.
bongey - Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - link
Nope they just bashed Ryzen in gaming in the conclusion even without benchmarks."Gaming Performance, particularly towards 240 Hz gaming, is being questioned,"
"AMD has a strong workstation core "
Slappi2 - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
Wow AMD gets stomped here. No way I would buy an AMD CPU after seeing that.R0H1T - Monday, June 19, 2017 - link
Sure now enjoy your 10 core space heater ~www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-7900x-skylake-x,5092-11.html