Intel's z170 upgrade uplift was 300MHz CPU clock speed 0MB cache 0 additional cores and 266MHz better official memory support. That's it just kidding they also provided you with MELTDOWN absolutely free!!! Sorry if I'm off topic, but the thread's pretty derailed already. If you wish feel free to compare the top of the line Gen 1 Ryzen to whatever the original top of the like Gen 1 MB's supported later on for the average effective score/overclock score on UserBenchmarks so it's very reputable and totally not shilling for Intel.
6700K vs 7700K %5 effective/7% average/5% overclock combined average 13% +5% effective less than the IPC uplift Ryzen offers generation over generation alongside cores and/or cache improvements. Go ahead and be a Intel cheerleader though. Let's see what they wrote.
The Core i7-7700K is Intel’s flagship Kaby Lake based CPU which is reported to have the same IPC as its predecessor, Skylake. Comparing the 7700K and 6700K shows that both average effective speed and peak overclocked speed are up by 7%. Most of the increase in average effective speed is explained by the 5% boost in base clocks from 4.0 to 4.2 GHz. The improved peak lab speed is attributable to a combination of better overclocking capacity and improvements in Intel’s speedshift technology which make the 7700K slightly more responsive. Kaby Lake also has marginally better HD 630 integrated graphics. The i7-7700K is priced similarly to the i7-6700K so for top end gaming and workstation builds, the 7700K is the clear choice for 2017. AMD’s Ryzen will release later this year so things could change at that time. [Jan '17 CPUPro]
It would appear they were less harsh on AMD in 2017 when they were still actively strangled by Intel's monopoly and it was entirely fresh on everyone's minds how devasting it was to the PC industry as a whole. I too would like to be a Intel fanboi with infinite dollars to spend on liquid nitrogen.
Owners of any unlocked-K Intel CPU from Sandy Bridge or onwards still have no real reason to upgrade as the performance improvements are largely academic but the i7-6700K will be the CPU of choice for the vast majority of top end PC builds in 2015.
What does that even mean largely academic? 0.1s better Pi 32m results generational uplift!!? Good times back when Intel was busy taking it easy nearly bankrupting it's only competition unless you want to include VIA that's been even less competitive yet also suffered due to Intel one can argue. Now a moment of silence to sit and pray and shill for the Intel fanboi's.
So this is what AMD offered roughly for x370 Ryzen 1800X vs 5950X by UserBenchmarksIntelCheerleaders.com 30% effective speed 41% average 43% overclock combined average 84% + 30% effective. Along with a additional +8 cores/16 thread 4MB L2 cache and 48MB L3.
Now here's a few of the juicier quotes about 5950x by UserBenchcucks.
5950x
16 cores are only suitable for professional use cases that have CPU processing needs which cannot be more efficiently met by a GPU or other dedicated hardware.
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Historically AMD's CPU architecture has had a much lower IPC than Intel's and consequently Intel have dominated the CPU market since 2009.
So apparently by extension historically Intel has been a monopoly since 2009 up thru until 2017. Let's forget about the other part of AMD history with AMD64 just as long as we can historically smear them for Intel. I'm pretty certain also during that time frame from 2009 to 2017 was back when Intel was using compilers to skew things negatively against AMD in their favor as well. Meanwhile now with Alder Lake they need all the help they can get for thread scheduling how ironic is it not.
