Ryzen at 490£ vs i7 7700k at 336£ doesn't seem very promising.
[QUOTE=rndgenerator;51987548]Ryzen at 490£ vs i7 7700k at 336£ doesn't seem very promising.[/QUOTE]
This isn't a gaming chip, its a workstation chip. Games aren't optimized well for this many threads. That is why the 1800x is close to the 6900k in gaming performance.
[QUOTE=bigdandyd;51987597][B]This isn't a gaming chip, its a workstation chip.[/B] Games aren't optimized well for this many threads. That is why the 1800x is close to the 6900k in gaming performance.[/QUOTE]
lol no. Both Ryzen and 6900K are designed and marketed as enthusiast grade consumer CPUs.
Keep in mind that the 6900K is a Broadwell chip, and it has been around for more than a year now. 7700K uses the Kaby Lake architecture, which is far more newer.
Results are pretty hit and miss depending on whats running but for the most part, it looks like a lot of stuff favors towards 10 with SMT off which makes sense, lot of these games don't hyperthread very well and mostly have always used the intel route for it, SMT is very different.
The W7 runs better story really looks like a load of bull though, 10 is very clearly running better.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51987607]lol no. Both Ryzen and 6900K are designed and marketed as enthusiast grade consumer CPUs.
Keep in mind that the 6900K is a Broadwell chip, and it has been around for more than a year now. 7700K uses the Kaby Lake architecture, which is far more newer.[/QUOTE]
The 6900k also still costs over $1000 despite it's age and benchmarks lower in multi-threaded loads. My point is the 1800x is very comparable in gaming performance to the 6900k because they are both lower clocked high thread count chips with a similar ipc.
It has already been shown that kaby lake has negligible increase in ipc over sky lake, only higher clock speeds that make the small performace boost.
Even better, if you get a 1700 most of them overclock to 3.8-3.9 ghz and perform the same as an 1800x for $320.
Hopefully when the r5 series comes out they will overclock better to match or come close to kaby lake clock speeds, they might have a chance at the 7700k then.
I think the SMT problem will be fixed later, the OS isn't handling Ryzen's logical cores correctly just like it did when the i7s came out.
I honestly don't get why the Ryzen chip is getting that hammered in Tomb Raider. Either way, no one should buy the 1800X, get the 1700 for $170 less. Or, if you don't have anything to do with the extra four cores, get an i7 7700K for gaming.
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