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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ACE76 - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
AMD is going to unleash some serious tech next year with Ryzen 2 on 7nm...this is just a refresh of the original Ryzen...the real deal will be next April/May...Intel is in for a rough ride.tmiller02 - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
the patches are the difference.. which everyone should do on intel machines.. the fact is they came with a performance hit! AMD is now leading the pack... security over performance any day!Dr. Swag - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
I've seen other sites do their tests with the patches. I'm just not certain if they went back and rested older cpus or not...Lolimaster - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
You can be sure most didn't.fallaha56 - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Most didn’t patchLook at techradar who did -they too are showing massive losses for Intel
Luckz - Monday, April 23, 2018 - link
Techradar's review is some form of manipulation. They don't even show the test system specs for the comparison scores. In their 8700K review they wrote the CPU hit 76° for them at stock and 87° OC; in the 2700X review they wrote that the 8700K only went up to 52°(!!!). That CPU literally had its handbrake™ pulled.Ranger1065 - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Thank you for an informative and timely review.T1beriu - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
What workload was used during per core power consumption tables?Ian Cutress - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Prime95Luckz - Monday, April 23, 2018 - link
Assuming that means the non-AVX version, with that tool it makes sense to clarify.