AMD RYZEN 5 AND 3 PERFORMANCE PREVIEW!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,261 words · ~6 min read
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guys guys you won't believe where I've
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been or when I've returned from the far
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off time of Q3 2017 after the launches of AMD's ryzen 5
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and ryzen 3 and you don't want to know
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what happens between now and then but anyway that's not important right now
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what is important is I've brought back a
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little souvenir Welcome to our ear early
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preview of ryzen 3 and ryzen
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5 the Phoenix oour is a full-sized
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below okay okay so I'm no do brown and I
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drive a Lambo not a DeLorean so we
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should just get this out of the way right now we don't actually have a ryzen
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5 or a ryzen 3
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chip or do we no no we don't this right
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here is our ryzen 7 1800x and what we're going to do is use
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our Motherboard BIOS to match the core
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counts and frequencies that AMD has
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announced and see how they might stack
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up you may have your doubts about this
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method but we've demonstrated in the past that it works shockingly well in
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this video here so which chips will we
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be testing then well aside from our ryzen 7 1800x and
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1700x as real world baselines and a core
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i7 7700 K to rep present the blue team
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we're taking the ryzen 5600x and 1400x and the ryzen 3 1200X
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Forest spin we'll be doing it all with
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our replacement ASUS crossair 6-based
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ryzen test bench and as for our GPU
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we'll be testing with our new FPS per dollar high performance King the GTX
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1080 TI now considering that the highest
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clocked r 5 CPU is still a 3.6 GHz base
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4 GHz boost chip the same as the 1800x
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we're pretty certain that we're not going to see any performance difference
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in single-threaded tasks with the 1600 X
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making it slower in multi-threaded workloads but potentially a wicked
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gaming chip there are some things to
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keep in mind with these tests as AMD's
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Precision boost is disable AED the moment a custom frequency is set we've
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had to lock the frequencies of our slower clocked virtual CPUs since
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Precision boost and xfr only kicked in
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in lightly threaded workloads in our testing we chose to split the difference
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between their base frequencies and maximum xfr clocks that is 3.75 GHz for
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the 1400x and 3.6 GHz for the
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1200X this clearly isn't 100 100%
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accurate particularly since that puts our lower end chips running at a higher
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base frequency while at full loads it
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should still give us a ballpark representation for our overall
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performance analysis across all of our tests finally we're uncertain at this
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time whether disabling cores on ryzen
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also disables extra cash so do keep that
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in mind with all that boring stuff out of the way now though let's kick it off
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with our gaming benchmarks today at 1080p since these are mid-range CPUs
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that we're simulating we see our virtual 1600x performing better in DSX mankind
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divided than the lower clocked but pricier
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1700x rise of the Tomb Raider shows us more of the same while for Honor shows
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our, 1400x also performing well with its
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higher base frequency sadly an artifact of our methodology
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since ryzen doesn't boost for that long at full load GTA 5 clearly will take all
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the course and Cycles it can get while Ghost Recon wildlands on the other hand
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shows only the i7 7700 K's
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single-threaded performance pulling away with a measurable lead Doom gives the
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7700k a much more significant lead with the ryzen series making a pretty linear
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slope at after that and finally like GTA 5 Crisis 3 shows again a thirst for
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everything with our 1200 X falling far behind thanks to its mere four cores and
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four threads moving on to synthetics 3D
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Mark shows our ryzen platform generally outperforming the
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7700k until we get all the way to our quad course and the same is true of szip
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where even our 1600x outperforms its
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more expensive Intel rival PC Mark is
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another highlight for AMD the 1600 X's performance is close to the 1800x and
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another instance where our methodology benefited our 1400x in a way that won't
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quite hold true in the real world the
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1600x again pulls ahead in the single-threaded Y cruncher test but our
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multi-threaded test brings us closer to
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a kind of linear slope cinebench 2 shows
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us fairly predictable results and except for the i7 which only beats the much
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cheaper quadcore ryzen chips rounding
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our test out ASUS realbench shows us its
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preference for clock speed for image editing thread count on encoding and a
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combination of the two in heavy multitasking with our benches stacking
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up accordingly but to put all of that
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performance stuff in the appropriate perspective we need to look at pricing
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at24 9 the 1600x seems to hit the sweet
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spot with its 1800x like performance in
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everything but our most multi-threaded
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benchmarks the 1400x at 169 seems like a
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really solid value too considering its
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thread parody with our i7 and decent
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scoring which lands it at the top of the pack for performance per dollar the
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1200X rumored at 149 is uh well AMD's
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marketing is all about thread count and with only four ryzen just isn't pulling
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quite as much weight however at that price it's actually our second best
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performer per dollar placing it in an excellent position for a budget CPU and
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if you've watched our ryzen OC guide you're probably thinking that this one
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is actually much closer to the ath XP 2500 plus than the
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1700x and you wouldn't necessarily be wrong though something our 8 core
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processor cannot simulate is how hot these chips will run or how well they'll
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overclock so that all remains to be
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seen so with all of that said then we have to stress again that this isn't an
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exact measurement in particular our 1400x and 1200X scores are likely
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suffering from the loss of PR ision boost but taken with a grain of salt
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these results should paint a pretty clear and pretty exciting picture one
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