A few days ago AMD has announced their new Ryzen 7 series processors including three new 8-core chips and they all come with a highly competitive price tag. So far we’ve only seen numbers in multi-threaded benchmarks, however thanks to a leak from PCEVA there are now more real-world benchmarks floating around.


Although there aren't many details available on the settings used the results are still rather interesting. The benchmark has been conducted on two different test setups, one based on AMD Ryzen and another on Intel Broadwell-E. The first setup features an AMD Ryzen 7 1700X chip on an ASUS Prime X370-PRO motherboard, while the other one is based on an Intel Core i7-6800K CPU and an ASUS STRIX X99 Gaming motherboard. Each setup uses the same AMD RX 480 8G graphics card, PSU and cooling system. Memory wise, the Intel setup featured faster memory.

According to PCEVA the AMD 7 1700X was quicker than the Intel Core i7-6800K in 9 out of 13 games tested. Only in Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty Infinite Warfare the i7-6800K was faster. In both cases, however, the difference between the two CPUs is very tiny. For example in Tomb Raider DX12 and in Hitman DX12 the average difference lies between 1 to 2% in terms of FPS. Only in The Division the AMD chip is more than 7% quicker.

If these benchmarks are correct, the new AMD Ryzen 7 1700X might be a perfect gaming CPU. Furthermore the benchmarks also shows power consumption of both systems. Ryzen 7 1700X is a 95W CPU while the Intel Core i7-6800K is a 140W chip. In other words, the AMD chip is able to deliver more performance at lower power consumption.

At the moment these are the first real-world benchmarks on AMD Ryzen and more details can most likely be expected to surface this week, since by then the NDA is allegedly supposed to be lifted.




Source: Wccftech