For sake of updated CPUZ, I ran the Bench again on 1800x w/Corsshair VI (Bios 1002).
Is that thread reading correct? Would it be possible to run the benchmark with SMT enabled?
at first sight it seems that the Intel are looking much better now with the new update in comparison to the AMD Ryzen's
Never mind Ryzen, AMD as a whole is suffering. I know the previous benchmark version utilized SSE2 at most. However, I've noticed in my 1.7.9.0 benchmark results that Piledriver struggles to keep up with Intel's Penryn architecture, even with its much higher clock frequency. I'm rather intrigued to find out if the new version is using SSE3, SSE4 or even AVX. Perhaps
@Viking73 can help with ruling out the last one, if the benchmark runs under the AVX Offset values? Granted, since Penryn is pretty close to Piledriver now, I would assume that AVX isn't the culprit, even though I see people jump to conclusions all over message boards.
I can demonstrate the drop that Piledriver (my A8-6600K to be specific) has suffered by using my previous machine. It is equipped with a Core2 Duo T9300 at stock settings (2.50 GHz MT turbo; 2.70 GHz ST turbo). In 1.7.8.3, the APU at the slowest speed I tested (fixed 3.90 GHz) was ahead in single-thread by 27.1%. In multi-thread, it was ahead by 153.2%. In comparison for 1.7.9.0, the APU is now ahead in single-thread by only 4.2%, and in multi-thread by 76.9%.
I also ran the benchmark with the APU underclocked to 2.50 GHz and 2.70 GHz to see the difference on a 1:1 basis.
Regardless, here are the shiny, new graphs for CPU-Z version 1.7.9.0 and above:
Additionally, the older graphs have been updated to credit users directly from the graph, and will permanently live here: