AMD Ryzen 7 1700X underperforming - bottleneck somewhere?

[P-Germany]

Dear Community,

I was very excited to put together my new Ryzen System with the expectation that it will perform much better than my 2 year old i5 intel as a workstation.

However it seems to be fairly laggy in comparison to my old intel using windows 10 64bits.
I notice it when I have multiple chrome tabs open and i rotate move one tab to another display for example. Also when i am in outlook 2016 (I have 4 big inboxes with over 2k mails in each) switching between folders (inbox/sent) takes a few seconds. Also when i press the shortcut to create a new email it takes a second longer until the window appears... here and there small things that indicate that there could be a bottleneck somewhere.

When i tested my EVO 850 i discovered that the IOPS values are half of what my old Intel with an EVO 840 was doing.

Here is a screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/5e6Wa6Kz

I wonder if it has anything to do with the slow ram? I chose a very basic Gskill DDR4 model G.Skill 8192 MB (DDR4-2137) that is supposedly capable of MHZ3200 but when i set it in my Asus Bios it won't boot up. I can only boot it up at its stock frequency...

Can you tell me if I have a bottleneck somewhere or how I should configure the system to have it run faster than a comparable Intel system 7700k?

Here is my Geekbench Score: https://www.screencast.com/t/1onmvJ0q


have I made a mistake with the components? 400watts PSU is being used. I don't use it for gaming. Mainly as a workstation for developing.

Thanks for your Help !

Here is a summary of the components:

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X @ 3766.01 MHz
Dump [g69yun] - Submitted by DESKTOP-- 2017-09-06 18:01:02
Processor (CPU)
CPU Name AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor
Threading 1 CPU - 8 Core - 16 Threads
Frequency 3766.01 MHz (37.75 * 99.76 MHz) - Uncore: 1064.1 MHz
Multiplier Current: 37.75
Architecture Summit Ridge / Stepping: ZP-B1 / Technology: 14 nm
CPUID / Ext. F.1.1 / 17.1
IA Extensions MMX(+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, x86-64, AMD-V, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA
Caches L1D : 32 KB / L2 : 512 KB / L3 : 8192 KB
Caches Assoc. L1D : 8-way / L2 : 8-way / L3 : 16-way
TDP / Vcore 95 Watts / 1.363 Volts
Temperature 68.9 °C / 156 °F
Type Retail
Cores Frequencies #00: 3766.01 MHz  #01: 3766.01 MHz  #02: 3766.01 MHz  #03: 3766.01 MHz 
#04: 3766.01 MHz  #05: 3766.01 MHz  #06: 3766.01 MHz  #07: 3766.01 MHz 
Motherboard
Model Asus PRIME B350-PLUS
Socket Socket AM4 (1331)
North Bridge AMD Ryzen SOC rev 00
South Bridge AMD B350 rev 51
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. 0806 (07/12/2017)
Memory (RAM)
Total Size 16384 MB
Type Single Channel (64 bit) DDR4-SDRAM
Frequency 1064.1 MHz - Ratio 3:32
Timings 15-15-15-36-51-2 (tCAS-tRC-tRP-tRAS-tCS-tCR)
Slot #1 Module G.Skill 8192 MB (DDR4-2137) - XMP 2.0 - P/N: F4-3000C16-8GISB
Slot #2 Module G.Skill 8192 MB (DDR4-2137) - XMP 2.0 - P/N: F4-3000C16-8GISB
Graphic Card (GPU)
GPU Type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (GM107) @ 1071 MHz
GPU Brand ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
GPU Specs GM107-400 / Process: 28nm / Transistors: 1870M / Die Size: 148 mm² / TDP: 55W
GPU Units Shader Units: 640 / Texture Units (TMU): 40 / Render Units (ROP): 16
GPU VRAM 2048 MB GDDR5 128 bit @ 2700 MHz
GPU APIs DirectX 12.0 / OpenGL 4.5 / OpenCL 1.2 / Vulkan N/A
Storage (HDD/SSD)
Model #1 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB
Capacity #1 500 GB
Model #2 Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP102
Capacity #2 1000 GB
Display
Screen #1 BenQ PD3200Q (BNQ8026)
Screen #1 Spec 32.1 inches (81.5 cm) / 2560 x 1440 pixels @ 50-76 Hz
Screen #2 BenQ PD3200Q (BNQ8026)
Screen #2 Spec 32.1 inches (81.5 cm) / 2560 x 1440 pixels @ 50-76 Hz
Screen #3 VN279 (ACI27A4)
Screen #3 Spec 27.2 inches (69.1 cm) / 1920 x 1080 pixels @ 50-76 Hz
Miscellaneous
Windows Version Microsoft Windows 10 (10.0) Professional 64-bit
Windows Subver. (Build 15063)
CPU-Z Version 1.80.1 (64 bit)

 

[g-unit1111]

Yeah from the initial looks of it, your RAM is running slow and not at DDR4-3200 MHz. I would suggest going into the BIOS and enabling XMP as soon as possible.

 

[coozie7]

Yep, you've got something not quite right there, just ran the Geekbench 4 trial and scored 4070/20514 with my stock R7 1700/DDR4 2993 setup.

First off, reset the BIOS to stock values to give yourself an even playing field.
Next, check to see if there's an updated BIOS for the MB, AMD and their partners have been releasing regular updates to improve memory compatibility since Ryzen was launched.

Personal tale: Swapped from a i7 6700/Z170 to R7 1700/B350 to improve render speeds, the RAM from the Intel setup just would not run at full speed, even with the latest BIOS update it would flat refuse to boot at anything over DDR4 2133. A check with Taiphoon showed the chips to be Hynix and Ryzen seems to prefer Samsung memory, upshot was I had to change the modules to enable full speed.
Don't know if it's the memory subsystem, Windows or something else but the R7 1700 doesn't seem to be quite as snappy as the i7 setup either, momentary delays when opening Edge or moving from window to window exist.

 

[jmrnilsson]

Going beyond 3000 MHz is limited by the memory controller on CPU as stated at MSI web page. But as far as i understand it it applies to all motherboards.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/X370-GAMING-PRO-CARBON#support-mem-2
Compability > Memory Support

I'd go in steps 2400, 2666, 2933 or something like that depending on the specification on the memory or contact G.Skill technical support.