After browsing quite a few english language reviews one thing is clear the quality of tech journalism as a whole is way below where it was when Anand was a more CPU focused site. Take a "leader" like PCPER who tested three whole games for this launch. Seriously just three.
Yeah, Ryzen 1700 is where the money is at.Overall, it looks like the 1700X and 1800X don't make too much sense to buy over the 1700 if you want to go with a RyZen 8C chip.
That started before the reviews hit and I guarantee it's not a result of them. With the volatility of this stock, if it was tanking due to Ryzen looking bad, you would see it down 20+% now, not 3%.
That started before the reviews hit and I guarantee it's not a result of them. With the volatility of this stock, if it was tanking due to Ryzen looking bad, you would see it down 20+% now, not 3%.
Gaming benchmarks on Ryzen are a critical mess. However it is worth noting here again, that these are very much benchmarks, and not actual gameplay. What we have come to find is that AMD has an issue with Ryzen at 1080P and seemingly lower resolutions when gaming, which is odd. I have talked to Ryan over at PCPer.com a few times during testing, and he has covered real world desktop gaming in-depth. I highly suggest giving it a read. I am not going to say much more about gaming here since I have little experience on that, but assuredly, there are some Ryzen problems when it comes to "low resolution" gaming. Of course, we can certaily argue and say that it is unlikely that lots of folks building a Ryzen system will actually be using such a "low" resolution display. The issues however seem to not affect Ryzen gameplay once the resolution scales up to 1400p/1600p/4K.
After browsing quite a few english language reviews one thing is clear the quality of tech journalism as a whole is way below where it was when Anand was a more CPU focused site. Take a "leader" like PCPER who tested three whole games for this launch. Seriously just three. Seems most popular sites are happy to publish half arsed web reviews for clicks while they promote equally shoddy youtube videos for more revenue. Would be nice to see some of these leaders invest that revenue in actually testing again. Thankfully if we use google translate we can still find real tech sites like Hardweare.fr who actually spend time testing and documenting bugs. /rant
SMT bug is a real killer. AMD may be more competitive in gaming by the time the 1600X is launched. It should be a better CPU for current gaming workloads and hopefully the bugs will be fixed so we can see some real competition.
I bet it is. I bet they screwed something up trying to tweak that ASUS board to accept the faster memory.Joker is using the Gigabyte X370 Gaming 5 motherboard, maybe that's the difference in his setup than others?
Yeah, Ryzen 1700 is where the money is at.
Because if you think about it. You can bin a chip 2 different ways. Clocking wise (what folks talk about usually) and leakage wise. Leakage wise is usually for Server and Mobile. To make a 8c/16t consume 65-75w at load (cant tell, havent see a review of power consumption of 1700, that is why i take 10 more watts just because), is impressive and points to a low leakage chip. THat is also binned, and low leakage responds better to air/AIO rather than extreme cooling. And you get a stock cooler too.
So.. the games needs to be patched in order to use the features of AMD. If Intel does something similar to Conroe o Sandy Bridge is extremely likely that they needs to patch it too.
Guess I won't need to upgrade after all, seeing how poorly ryzen runs modern games. My piledriver will continue to work hand in hand with my r9 380 nicely until kingdom comes or until I upgrade to a better gpu, whichever comes first.
However, NO MORE overpriced Intel, this is a blessing.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-ryzen-7-1700x-linux-benchmarks/
2670v1 is a SB 8C/16T 2.6Ghz base, 3.3Ghz turbo.
What are you looking at that I'm not able to see?Seems like R7-1700@3.9GHz has about double the performance of 7700k@5Ghz in a properly multithreaded game like Battlefield 1.