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over the last five years it seems like pretty much

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everyone has uh let's say noticed Intel's consumer

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divisions tick tick tick tick eventually talk

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approach to generational performance improvements including folks at AMD

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but then on the surface AMD seems to have pulled a page

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right out of Intel's playbook with their second generation AMD ryzen desktop

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processors but is there more to these than meets

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the eye well i'm going to let you know after

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so what's the deal here is AMD replacing ryzen 3 ryzen 5 and ryzen 7

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with ryzen 2. not quite

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while these are second generation the ryzen 7 2700x

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and the ryzen 5 2600x clocking in at 8

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and 6 cores respectively are not technically zen two

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that's not going to come until later so what we're getting now are higher boost

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clocks with xfr applying to all cores

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and this one's pretty exciting up to a 34

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improvement to cash latency with AMD claiming a theoretical three percent

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performance bump from that second point alone

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we're also getting up to dual channel ddr4 2933 support on the brand new

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x470 chipset motherboards which from

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even our early testing translates into much better compatibility with

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high-speed memory kits so

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all of this adds up to something that AMD is calling

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zen plus based on a tweaked 12 nanometer

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process that's been fined tuned to push rated clock speeds higher without

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increasing the rated power consumption now of course we're gonna have to test

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all these claims so while we wait for this to uh

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rise ah

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it's a yeast joke let's go over our test setup

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we'll be using both Intel's latest and AMD's previous gen consumer processors

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which ah it's done already

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go ahead and cut oh my god this joke is so i'm sorry that whole thing with the

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oven was just a lead into a joke about

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delicious rison crust why don't we just get into the benchmarks

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starting with our gaming stuff

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and yes more terrible puns how surprising

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ryzen's second gen is ever so slightly

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faster than ryzen first gen deus ex mankind divided barely cared far cry 5

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actually got 5 to 7 more FPS and cs go

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actually this one was a standout very nice

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the differences though are less noticeable in 3d mark and unigine

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superposition putting second gen close enough that we technically observed

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higher numbers on our first gen chips

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and of course when it comes to gaming Intel still steals the show

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now let's move on to productivity

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here things take a more dramatic swing so our 2700x

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absolutely creams the last gen 1800 x

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and r testing with significantly higher scores in cinebench and ASUS real bench

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and shaving a cool 1 minute 11 seconds

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off the classroom render time in blender the 1800x already beat out the core i7

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8700k in most of these so the gap then

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is that much wider this time around impressive

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and it looks like at least some of this is due to the improvements to cache

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latency with our testing in ida 64 showing a pretty significant improvement

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of around 25 with higher bandwidth and improved

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memory latency to boot of course what would a review of a new

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CPU be without overclocking results

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let's go to level three bam

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so our 2600x still didn't want to play ball with our

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pre-release firmware but our 2700x with

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the auto tweak feature gave us predictably better results although

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these gains are mainly limited to highly threaded workloads

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lightly threaded or gaming workloads understandably actually suffer slightly

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compared to the 100 megahertz faster stock xfr clocks

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power consumption is still higher than coffee lake but that's not really a

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surprise what is interesting is that under load our new chips are more power

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hungry we think because precision boosts 2 is keeping the CPU at higher speeds

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more often this also translates into higher

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temperatures which means we wouldn't really recommend doing a ton of

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overclocking with your stock cooler as cool as the new wraith max RGB coolers

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might be so then at 329 for the high-end ryzen 7 2700x

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and 229 for the six-core ryzen 5 2600x

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both of them 30 dollars more than their non-x counterparts AMD has managed to

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claw back a bit of the bang for the buck proposition that they enjoyed with

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ryzen's first generation release and perhaps more importantly

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even though this is a new CPU and chipset the obvious stability issues

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with high speed memory in particular that prevented us from making a clear

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recommendation last time around are gone

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so let's not kid ourselves this is every bit as incremental as Intel's move from

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sky lake to kaby lake and we are disappointed that it's not zen 2 yet

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but second generation ryzen is a bit more

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worth your money than last time which is a good thing

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