The AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive: The 2700X, 2700, 2600X, and 2600 Tested
by Ian Cutress on April 19, 2018 9:00 AM ESTCPU Legacy Tests
Our legacy tests represent benchmarks that were once at the height of their time. Some of these are industry standard synthetics, and we have data going back over 10 years. All of the data here has been rerun on Windows 10, and we plan to go back several generations of components to see how performance has evolved.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
3D Particle Movement v1
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz and IPC wins in the single thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads and loves more cores. This is the original version, written in the style of a typical non-computer science student coding up an algorithm for their theoretical problem, and comes without any non-obvious optimizations not already performed by the compiler, such as false sharing.
CineBench 11.5 and 10
Cinebench is a widely known benchmarking tool for measuring performance relative to MAXON's animation software Cinema 4D. Cinebench has been optimized over a decade and focuses on purely CPU horsepower, meaning if there is a discrepancy in pure throughput characteristics, Cinebench is likely to show that discrepancy. Arguably other software doesn't make use of all the tools available, so the real world relevance might purely be academic, but given our large database of data for Cinebench it seems difficult to ignore a small five minute test. We run the modern version 15 in this test, as well as the older 11.5 and 10 due to our back data.
x264 HD 3.0
Similarly, the x264 HD 3.0 package we use here is also kept for historic regressional data. The latest version is 5.0.1, and encodes a 1080p video clip into a high quality x264 file. Version 3.0 only performs the same test on a 720p file, and in most circumstances the software performance hits its limit on high end processors, but still works well for mainstream and low-end. Also, this version only takes a few minutes, whereas the latest can take over 90 minutes to run.
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SaturnusDK - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Surely you mean widening the performance gap. It was already ahead in professional and multi-threaded workloads. Now it's miles ahead.MajGenRelativity - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
I was referring to single-threaded performance. As for multi-threaded workloads, you are rightfallaha56 - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Like which ones?After the Spectre2 patch the Intel scores have been hammered...
And no doubt with proper default settings on MCE as well
jjj - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Very odd choice to only include the Intels with high clocks in the charts, it's like you wanted to put all Intels at top in ST results, make it look better than it is.Luckz - Monday, April 23, 2018 - link
I'm afraid there are physical space limits regarding how much hardware Ian can fit in his domain. It's been popular to recycle scores from previous tests among sites, but after "Smeltdown" (and with Nvidia drivers being all over the place) it doesn't work that way right now. In an ideal world you'd compare five or ten different setups, sure.But then you'd not just want 8400 @ B360 but also 8700k OC, 2600k OC, 4770k OC, etc...
T1beriu - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Typo: "Cycling back to that Cinebench R15 nT result that showed a 122% gain". I think the gain is just 22%.SirCanealot - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Wow. I'm actually excited to read a review for the first time in a long time! Fantastic review as usual!I'm still sitting on my 3770k @ 4-4-4.7ghz and I'm likely to try delidding for fun and see if I can push it any more. But this review makes me excited to look forward to perhaps building a Ryzen 2/3 (whatever the heck they name it) this time next year!
AMD has caught up to Intel another vital few paces here! If Intel sits on their butts again next year and AMD can do the same thing next year, this is going to get very, very interesting :)
SmCaudata - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
I'm sitting on a 2500k. The geek in me wants to upgrade, but I've really no need until Cyberpunk finally releases. Maybe zen 5 by that time.Lolimaster - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
You can upgrade to the new 400 mobos, it will be compatible with any Ryzen released till 2020.Luckz - Monday, April 23, 2018 - link
Four times the threads though, four times.Depends on what you do, of course :)