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 Web Tests
One of the issues when running web-based tests is the nature of modern browsers to automatically install updates. This means any sustained period of benchmarking will invariably fall foul of the 'it's updated beyond the state of comparison' rule, especially when browsers will update if you give them half a second to think about it. Despite this, we were able to find a series of commands to create an un-updatable version of Chrome 56 for our 2017 test suite. While this means we might not be on the bleeding edge of the latest browser, it makes the scores between CPUs comparable.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
SunSpider 1.0.2: link
The oldest web-based benchmark in this portion of our test is SunSpider. This is a very basic javascript algorithm tool, and ends up being more a measure of IPC and latency than anything else, with most high-performance CPUs scoring around about the same. The basic test is looped 10 times and the average taken. We run the basic test 4 times.
Mozilla Kraken 1.1: link
Kraken is another Javascript based benchmark, using the same test harness as SunSpider, but focusing on more stringent real-world use cases and libraries, such as audio processing and image filters. Again, the basic test is looped ten times, and we run the basic test four times.
Google Octane 2.0: link
Along with Mozilla, as Google is a major browser developer, having peak JS performance is typically a critical asset when comparing against the other OS developers. In the same way that SunSpider is a very early JS benchmark, and Kraken is a bit newer, Octane aims to be more relevant to real workloads, especially in power constrained devices such as smartphones and tablets.
WebXPRT 2015: link
While the previous three benchmarks do calculations in the background and represent a score, WebXPRT is designed to be a better interpretation of visual workloads that a professional user might have, such as browser based applications, graphing, image editing, sort/analysis, scientific analysis and financial tools.
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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 :)