System Overview & Testing Procedures
We are going to be testing a handful of processors today. We have listed the different systems we are using and their components.
AMD X370
Processors: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair VI Hero
Graphics: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 3GB
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR4-3000 32GB
Storage: Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB
Cooling: NZXT Kraken X52
Power Supply: Corsair AX860i
Case: PrimoChill Praxis WetBench
Intel Z370 System
Processors: Intel Core i7-8700K / Intel Core i5-8400
Motherboard: ASUS Prime Z370-A
Graphics: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 3GB
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR4-3000 32GB
Storage: Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB
Cooling: NZXT Kraken X52
Power Supply: Corsair AX860i
Case: PrimoChill Praxis WetBench
Intel Z270 System
Processors: Intel Core i7-7700K / Intel Core i7-6700K
Motherboard: Aorus Z270X-Gaming 9
Graphics: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 3GB
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR4-3000 32GB
Storage: Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB
Cooling: NZXT Kraken X52
Power Supply: Corsair AX860i
Case: PrimoChill Praxis WetBench
For testing the processors everything will be set to auto in the BIOS. The reason we do is because most people will have this setup on their own PC. This is the default mode if you do not go into the BIOS and change anything. For both Intel and AMD systems we did however enable the XMP profile for our memory.
Here are the specifications of all four processors we will be testing today.
Core i7-8700K: 3.7 GHz / 4.7 GHz
Core i7-7700K: 4.2 GHz / 4.5 GHz
Core i7-6700K: 4.0 GHz / 4.2 GHz
Core i5-8400: 2.8 GHz / 4.0 GHz
Ryzen 7 1700X: 3.4 GHz / 3.8 GHz
Ryzen 5 1600: 3.2 GHz / 3.6 GHz
Here are the tests that we will be running:
CPU Testing
AIDA64
– CPU Queen
– CPU ZLib
X264 HD Benchmark 5.0
Sisoftware Sandra
– Processor Arithmetic
– Processor Multimedia
Handbreak
– Encoding test
POV-Ray 3.7
CINEBENCH R11.5 64-Bit
Graphics & Gaming
3DMark Time Spy
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme
Ashes Of The Singularity
Batman Arkham Origins
The Division
25.6, 25.8, 26.0…..
Nice graphs @$$hole…
Because starting graphs from 0 is so hard.
Looks like you are trying to confuse, 1 ~ 2 FPS show as huge margin
So, you say the Ryzen is lacking in game performance, but the FPS difference between the it and the i5 was never more than 5fps in your testing. If you had left DX12 enabled, it would have performed better than the i5 in Division. You gave it praise, but it seems like you were doing your best to show it as not being as good as the Intel chips, even though the FPS differences would not be noticeable day to day. Now, if you were giving more data, like minimum frames, etc, it might make your exaggerated graphs seem less biased.
DX12 was enabled in The Division tests. And if you look at the results the Ryzen chips do fall behind in all gaming tests, to Intel chips that are two generations old, even its ~5 FPS its a common theme among our tests and tests we’ve seen from others. No bias just straight results from our tests
That’s all cool, but where are overclocked gaming results? Biggest advantage of this cpu in particular is that it’s unlocked, right? Even with wraith cooler this cpu can be oc-ed to at least 3.8ghz on an average b350 motherboard. This cpu gives great bang for buck, better than all intel chips besides coffe lake and 7700k.
Ridiculous graphs for the gaming benchmarks…showing a zoomed in look at the end of the bars, rather than the whole bar. Gives the illusion that the Intels are much faster when really they are only a teeny tiny bit faster. Just to echo the previous comments below.
Wow, how much did Intel pay you guys? You have zero credibility.
Would you like to elaborate?