CPU Ryzen benchmark

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd_ryzen_1700x_benchmarks_emerge/1

1700X benchmarks.

 

Speculatively speaking, that looks very promising.

 

Yup. I think my 3.2ghz Ivy scores about 14000 in Physics in Firestrike.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/17973935?

Aye, pretty much 14k on the nose. So 17+ is very impressive. That was about what I used to score (mid 16s) with a 3970x overclocked to 4.9ghz.

Everything seems to be adding up nicely to the Broadwell E sort of range.

 

With lower platform costs.

 

Oh yeah man by miles and miles

That is what I find very reassuring. If one of my rigs goes poof then I can replace like for like for much less than I would usually have set aside

 

Things are looking promising for Ryzen, but still no reason for me to upgrade

 

I'm itching for new shinies too, maybe Ryzen 2nd gen will be worth it.

Exciting times though! Really pleased to see AMD putting a shift in

 

Well, I can see people ditching their 4 cores for 6 or 8 cores with decent IPC, if its affordable. Equally, some may want to go AMD just out of iterative boredom fatigue, ala the Intel Corporation.

I admit, I also have a ticket for the hype train.

 

I like the idea of 6 cores but for gaming its not necessary at the moment as far as i know? If i was still rendering 3D images I'd be very excited.

 

I'm sure for many the extra cores will be a worthy upgrade and I'd love to say I'd make use of them on my desktop but sadly not.

However, if Ryzen supports full virtualization and ECC memory...

 

Correct, currently 4 cores is still perfectly sufficient for gaming:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10968...w-review-the-new-stock-performance-champion/6

 

See this is it, I'd rather be able to OC further than introduce the heat of extra cores, which leaves me with the quad core options and unfortunately they are not enough of an upgrade to justify from what I'm seeing at the moment.

Having said all this I may just crack and buy myself new toys.

 

Cores in gaming is only getting more prevalent the consoles aren't moving away from low power many threads so niether will gaming. 4 threads is a minimum now.

Once upon a time you didn't need more than1 core for gaming, blimey back in the day you didn't need an FPU I remember buying on of those as a bolt on upgrade much like a Physx card

 

Exactly, and it would move to 6 or more cores if widely available. How do 4 cores over 2 currently stack up in current games?

 

Thinking 6 core is a minimum on an upgrade for me also.

So Ryzen looking promising.

 

That's fine and at the point that the benchmarks start showing a marked difference I'll probably want to move over to more cores, at the moment I'm not seeing anything convincing despite the fact we're fairly deep into this console gen. To be honest I was expecting things to move that way myself but so far it doesn't seem to be the case.

So the best thing to do if things are moving in a multi threaded direction is to wait until its needed and buy the best 6-8 core chip at that time.

At the moment you may as well buy a quad and clock the nuts off it.

My 2p

Also, I remember only needing one core for gaming (used to run an Athlon 3700+, 2GB and a 7600GT)

 

Loving the look of the Ryzen package design and branding. RGB coolers... pretty but such a gimmick.

Are we any clearer on specifically what will be launched on the 28th, or could AMD sneak in the 6-core chips and really create a big ball-ache for Intel?

 

The leaks are showing that it'll just be the 8 core CPUs at launch:

- 1800X
- 1700X
- 1700

The 6 core and 4 core variants will follow at some later point.