Monday, March 19th 2018
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X & Ryzen 5 2600 Review Popped Up Ahead of Time
Not sure whether intentional or an error, SiSoftware posted a review of the Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600 processors on their website. The creators of the popular Sandra benchmark suite has taken down the review for the meantime. Luckily, our good old buddies at VideoCardz have ninja reflexes and downloaded the graphs before SiSoftware removed them. In their review, SiSoftware pitched the upcoming Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600 processors against AMD's previous Ryzen 7 1700X processor and Intel's Core i7-6700K Skylake processor.
The SiSoftware team evaluated CPU performance using a plethora of synthetic benchmarks. Unfortunately, they didn't evaluate gaming performance. Nevertheless, their review gave us a taste of what we can expect from the Ryzen 2000 series. The Ryzen 2000 series (or Zen+) officially supports DDR4 frequencies up to 2933 MHz which should help improve its performance. Similar to its predecessor, Zen+ processors possess the most cores and threads. Therefore, performance improvements depend hugely on IPC and clock speeds. While we're on the subject of clock speeds, Ryzen 2000 series' base clock is 9% higher while the Turbo/Boost/XFR frequency is 11% higher when compared to previous Ryzen chips. In terms of CPU performance, we can expect at least a 10% improvement in CPU-heavy benchmarks. All of this comes at a cost though. The TDP for Zen+ (105W) is 11% higher than the first-generation Ryzen processors (95W). Beefy cooling solutions are highly recommended especially if you plan to overclock these CPUs. Although Zen+ based processors' L1, L2, and L3 caches suffered no changes, latencies should show some improvement. AMD may launch the Ryzen 2000 series on April 19, so we won't have to wait long to get our hands on the new processors.
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VideoCardz
The SiSoftware team evaluated CPU performance using a plethora of synthetic benchmarks. Unfortunately, they didn't evaluate gaming performance. Nevertheless, their review gave us a taste of what we can expect from the Ryzen 2000 series. The Ryzen 2000 series (or Zen+) officially supports DDR4 frequencies up to 2933 MHz which should help improve its performance. Similar to its predecessor, Zen+ processors possess the most cores and threads. Therefore, performance improvements depend hugely on IPC and clock speeds. While we're on the subject of clock speeds, Ryzen 2000 series' base clock is 9% higher while the Turbo/Boost/XFR frequency is 11% higher when compared to previous Ryzen chips. In terms of CPU performance, we can expect at least a 10% improvement in CPU-heavy benchmarks. All of this comes at a cost though. The TDP for Zen+ (105W) is 11% higher than the first-generation Ryzen processors (95W). Beefy cooling solutions are highly recommended especially if you plan to overclock these CPUs. Although Zen+ based processors' L1, L2, and L3 caches suffered no changes, latencies should show some improvement. AMD may launch the Ryzen 2000 series on April 19, so we won't have to wait long to get our hands on the new processors.
30 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7 2700X & Ryzen 5 2600 Review Popped Up Ahead of Time
The only good bit is not long to wait now, I just hope @W1zzard has a lovely review hid up those massive sleaves of his.
@CrAsHnBuRnXp yes im with you their ,i just meant they also didn't piçk a good intel chip from a upgrade path Pov.
I am sure someone will compare chips more then adequately:D soon.
That being said, I wont be upgrading anytime soon, between ridiculous GPU and RAM prices, and OEM's refusal to make good micro ATX AM4 motherboards.
throw a 50% bump on its score's and you have a ball park figure for the 87k.
i have to say it gives the buyer more choice but the performance jump being tied with the tdp jump is kinda sad :(
Still, this confirms the small incremental gains that were to be expected. And curbs the hopes of those hoping to see some work done on the memory controller or IF.
CFL is 4th 14nm release. 3rd release with same arch. CFL was all about the core bump (thank AMD for that)
My 6700 at 5 GHz performs almost 1:1 compared to 7700K at 5 GHz.
And 7700K beats 8700K in some games (because the quads generally clocks higher, both with turbo and manual OC - requires less cooling)
Can't wait for Ice Lake. New arch, 10nm and hopefully 8C on mainstream. This is what we have been waiting for, for years.
Hopefully they will fix the crappy TIM / gap between die and IHS too. Or else I will delid (sigh).