The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising The Bar
by Andrei Frumusanu & Gavin Bonshor on July 7, 2019 9:00 AM EST** = Old results marked were performed with the original BIOS & boost behaviour as published on 7/7.
Benchmarking Performance: CPU Office Tests
The Office test suite is designed to focus around more industry standard tests that focus on office workflows, system meetings, some synthetics, but we also bundle compiler performance in with this section. For users that have to evaluate hardware in general, these are usually the benchmarks that most consider.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
PCMark 10: Industry Standard System Profiler
Futuremark, now known as UL, has developed benchmarks that have become industry standards for around two decades. The latest complete system test suite is PCMark 10, upgrading over PCMark 8 with updated tests and more OpenCL invested into use cases such as video streaming.
PCMark splits its scores into about 14 different areas, including application startup, web, spreadsheets, photo editing, rendering, video conferencing, and physics. We post all of these numbers in our benchmark database, Bench, however the key metric for the review is the overall score.
We're investigating the PCMark results, which seem abnormally high.
Update: We can't do a direct comparison due to the lack of a RX460 for PCMark for the moment
3DMark Physics: In-Game Physics Compute
Alongside PCMark is 3DMark, Futuremark’s (UL’s) gaming test suite. Each gaming tests consists of one or two GPU heavy scenes, along with a physics test that is indicative of when the test was written and the platform it is aimed at. The main overriding tests, in order of complexity, are Ice Storm, Cloud Gate, Sky Diver, Fire Strike, and Time Spy.
Some of the subtests offer variants, such as Ice Storm Unlimited, which is aimed at mobile platforms with an off-screen rendering, or Fire Strike Ultra which is aimed at high-end 4K systems with lots of the added features turned on. Time Spy also currently has an AVX-512 mode (which we may be using in the future).
For our tests, we report in Bench the results from every physics test, but for the sake of the review we keep it to the most demanding of each scene: Ice Storm Unlimited, Cloud Gate, Sky Diver, Fire Strike Ultra, and Time Spy.
The older Ice Storm test didn't much like the Core i9-9900K, pushing it back behind the R7 1800X. For the more modern tests focused on PCs, the 9900K wins out. The lack of HT is hurting the other two parts.
GeekBench4: Synthetics
A common tool for cross-platform testing between mobile, PC, and Mac, GeekBench 4 is an ultimate exercise in synthetic testing across a range of algorithms looking for peak throughput. Tests include encryption, compression, fast Fourier transform, memory operations, n-body physics, matrix operations, histogram manipulation, and HTML parsing.
I’m including this test due to popular demand, although the results do come across as overly synthetic, and a lot of users often put a lot of weight behind the test due to the fact that it is compiled across different platforms (although with different compilers).
We record the main subtest scores (Crypto, Integer, Floating Point, Memory) in our benchmark database, but for the review we post the overall single and multi-threaded results.
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beginning - Thursday, July 11, 2019 - link
I noticed that at the E3 2019 tech day, AMD recommended DDR4-3600 CL16 RAM. I see that 3200 MHz RAM has been used in the AMD testbench. I read the description about avoiding overclocking but 3600 MHz RAMs come with a factory clock of 3600 MHz, right? I know I am missing something. What am I missing?sknaumov - Thursday, July 11, 2019 - link
Do you plan to make some tests of these CPUs on older, cheaper and colder motherboards? It would be very interesting to see results of b450 chipset and whether it is possible to use DDR4-3600MHz with tight timings on these older boards. Or at least provide more info about what has more priority for memory speed and timings on AMD platform - CPU or chipset.viperswhip - Thursday, July 11, 2019 - link
I am going to wait to build a PC for a bit, however, I am super excited by this launch and disappointed by the video card launch. I expect to have an AMD chip since Intel has no answer for this, and we shall see on the video cards, but if I was building today I'd probably get a 2070 RTX super.PProchnow - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link
Here's is Jus' a good ol' boy trying out. No OC off stock Multi but 3333Mhz RAM#1
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13863634
Rather a new rig and it is X470 up to the A.A BIOS and it is MSI Gaming Plus.
OK link #2 is here and I stroked the DDR$ up top 3333Mhz. I also stroked the fan
to stay sub 70C. Wild OCs will take water at least "in The Home" versus LiqN2 Lab.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13865361
BTW where is the Bragging Thread? My MOBO is the MSI X470 Gaming Plus BIOS A.A makes Ryzen 9 go BTW.
I have yet to up the MULTI in case you want to know. I wonder what good Ocers will get with the right stuff.
Single-Core Performance
Memory Score 6431
Floating Point Score 5409
Integer Score 5190
Crypto Score 6888
Single-Core Score 5589
You underst and that RAM set at 1672 is 1/2 the common referred to speed. 3344Mhz is the common nomenclature.
***Single-Core Score ***Multi-Core Score
5589 47755
Geekbench 4.3.4 Tryout for Windows x86 (64-bit)
Result Information
Upload Date July 12 2019 08:16 PM
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System Information
System Information
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
Model Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7B79
Motherboard Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. X470 GAMING PLUS (MS-7B79)
Memory 32768 MB DDR4 SDRAM 1672MHz
Northbridge AMD Ryzen SOC 00
Southbridge AMD X470 51
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. A.A0
Processor Information
Name AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Topology 1 Processor, 12 Cores, 24 Threads
Identifier AuthenticAMD Family 23 Model 113 Stepping 0
Base Frequency 3.80 GHz
Maximum Frequency 4.53 GHz
Maxiking - Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - link
Why would anyone brag about something ifYou can't reach 5.0ghz +
You can't reach even the boost frequency on a single core
You can't beat consistently competitor's older 14nm cpu architecture which has been on the market since 2016...
You can't beat RAM OC'ing records either because over 3733mhz IF gets actually downlocked and due tu that, "faster" ram performs worse unless you OC 7400mhz, which is not possible even with liquid nitrogen.
PProchnow - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link
These are my scores with my Ryzen 9 3900X.#1
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13863634
Rather a new rig and it is X470 up to the A.A BIOS and it is MSI Gaming Plus.
OK link #2 is here and I stroked the DDR$ up top 3333Mhz. I also stroked the fan
to stay sub 70C. Wild OCs will take water at least "in The Home" versus LiqN2 Lab.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13865361
BTW where is the Bragging Thread? My MOBO is the MSI X470 Gaming Plus BIOS A.A makes Ryzen 9 go BTW.
I have yet to up the MULTI in case you want to know. I wonder what good Ocers will get with the right stuff.
Single-Core Performance
Memory Score 6431
Floating Point Score 5409
Integer Score 5190
Crypto Score 6888
Single-Core Score 5589
You underst and that RAM set at 1672 is 1/2 the common referred to speed. 3344Mhz is the common nomenclature.
***Single-Core Score ***Multi-Core Score
5589 47755
Geekbench 4.3.4 Tryout for Windows x86 (64-bit)
Result Information
Upload Date July 12 2019 08:16 PM
Views 2
System Information
System Information
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
Model Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7B79
Motherboard Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. X470 GAMING PLUS (MS-7B79)
Memory 32768 MB DDR4 SDRAM 1672MHz
Northbridge AMD Ryzen SOC 00
Southbridge AMD X470 51
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. A.A0
Processor Information
Name AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Topology 1 Processor, 12 Cores, 24 Threads
Identifier AuthenticAMD Family 23 Model 113 Stepping 0
Base Frequency 3.80 GHz
Maximum Frequency 4.53 GHz
Now you can cross ref with others.
Meteor2 - Monday, July 15, 2019 - link
Nice!willis936 - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
The editor's choice awards are a bit strange to me. Zen 1 didn't receive one even though it was the largest CPU performance increase from a company this century. The i7-4950HQ received an editor's choice silver award even though it had little importance to the industry. And the 3700X, which offers comparable SP performance to competing intel products at a huge discount and smaller power budget gets the same editor's choice level as the i7-4950HQ?willis936 - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
I know it was a different editor at the time, but the selective excitement is a bit of a bummer. eDRAM was exciting to see at the time and then nothing ever came of it. The enthusiasm of chiplets under the new editor comes through much less. That too is fine. However if the rating system is what it is then I don't think it's much to argue that chiplets are much more disruptive than eDRAM and is already making much larger waves.Maxiking - Monday, July 22, 2019 - link
AMD fraund getting finally the attention it deserveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03FyPQ3a3E
check at 05m25s