Tuesday, March 6th 2018
First Leaked Benchmarks of AMD's Ryzen 7 2000 Processor
A few days ago, we spotted AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 2700X processor at the 3DMark playground. We got word today that our Korean buddies over at the Hardware Battle forums have leaked some benchmarks of a mysterious Ryzen 7 2000 processor. While the graphs don't explicitly state the model of the so-called "Future Processor", it's very likely that it's the Ryzen 7 2700X. First off, the clock speed matched the specifications from the previous 3DMark leak. HWBattle also compared it to the Ryzen 7 1700X numerous times which makes perfect sense considering that the Ryzen 7 2700X is the next successor to the throne. Initially, we projected the Ryzen 7 2700X to hit the 4.2 GHz mark thanks to AMD's XFR 2.0 (eXtended Frequency Range) and Precision Boost 2.0 technologies. However, HWBattle's sample reached 4.35 GHz which makes it even more impressive.
Comparing the Ryzen 7 1700X and 2700X side by side in AIDA64's memory benchmark, the latter was 11% faster in the memory latency test and 30% and 16% faster in the L2 and L3 Cache tests, respectively. The Ryzen 7 2700X's single thread performance was surprisingly strong as well. It surpassed the likes of the Intel Core i9-7980XE, i7-8700K, and Threadripper 1950X processors in the Dhrystone Aggregated-int Native benchmark. The Ryzen 7 2700X started to fall behind in multi-core performance, but it still managed to beat the Intel Core i7-8700K. We saw a similar scenario with the Physics test in 3DMark's FireStrike Ultra benchmark. The Ryzen 7 2700X once again annihilated the Intel Core i7-8700K.
Source:
Hardware Battle
Comparing the Ryzen 7 1700X and 2700X side by side in AIDA64's memory benchmark, the latter was 11% faster in the memory latency test and 30% and 16% faster in the L2 and L3 Cache tests, respectively. The Ryzen 7 2700X's single thread performance was surprisingly strong as well. It surpassed the likes of the Intel Core i9-7980XE, i7-8700K, and Threadripper 1950X processors in the Dhrystone Aggregated-int Native benchmark. The Ryzen 7 2700X started to fall behind in multi-core performance, but it still managed to beat the Intel Core i7-8700K. We saw a similar scenario with the Physics test in 3DMark's FireStrike Ultra benchmark. The Ryzen 7 2700X once again annihilated the Intel Core i7-8700K.
62 Comments on First Leaked Benchmarks of AMD's Ryzen 7 2000 Processor
Also considering it has 2 more cores ...... yea, not annihilated at all lol
Especially if you consider that this is like the only thing Intel can even cling to anymore as an example of them beating Ryzen.
Also - 1080p gaming is pretty much the only advantage Intel has left anymore. If they lose that, they have no logical reason for people to buy their chip over AMD.
From what i understand, Zen's IPC @ same clocks VS coffee lake is just a bit behind in single thread performance. Zen then almost catches up in multi-thread due to SMT being superior to HT. But, because coffee lake's frequency is so much higher, it gives the illusion that the difference is much higher then it actually is.
As such, this increase in 2700x (assuming it is this processor and that these results are correct), will make AMD catch up to Intel: still not enough in more single threaded scenarios but enough to overtake in more multi-threaded scenarios.
We shall see ...
BTW: Wonder if we'll see same price to performance ratio as with the 1000x's series Ryzens.
But not before 1 month after it's released, and has been extensively tested.
above is speculation but it opens up for it but regardless of the clocks it will still lack in IPC somewhat by some minor amount but a Ryzen at 4.4 ghz with 1-2% less ipc vs 8700K @ 4.7-5ghz is not going to compete in games as usual.
But the surprising thing to me is that Latencies is improved quite a lot and should improve gaming performance a lot more than any other benchmark, with slightly higher than expected clocks and hopefully memory compability should make this launch very interesting indeed.
It will not be playing with an 8700K in games still me thinks, for me good enough.
Interestingly you can get a 1800X for $300 at Micro Center. Amazon/Egg $360. So we'll see how AMD has to price a 2800X against the i7 8700k that are $340_Egg; $333_Amazon; $330_Micro Center, and some can be found as low as $300. Though I think the 2700X will be right on heels the i7 8700k and MSRP for $280-270.
You guys are surprised because a 8c/16t beats a 6c/12t by 5% on a multi threaded test. Nice. I will wait for proper benchmarks as imi 6c/12t with a good single core performancr and ipc is more benefical for majority.
I wonder what other "in-house benchmarking" tweaks can be done to the microcode (e.g. skip all housekeeping, reconfigure L1/L2/L3 cache for max single thread performance, later, switch to max multi-thread performance) to improve benchmark scores to get more heat into early PR interest.
A bit like VW diesel engines. Synthetic "monitored" performance radically different to real world on-the-road behaviour?
I'm not knocking this specific CPU, just becoming increasingly cynical about what's going on in the R&D labs.
Secondly... the people arguing at the beginning of this thread about what represents annihilation and what doesn't... I really got a laugh out of that. So thank you.