cryoburner
Judicious
SpecialK27 :
This is a $500 chip that from all the tests above, lags behind a $350 chip (i7 7700)
NOT ONLY in games, but in most desktop-office uses, and some workstation uses as well (like autocad, solidworks, etc.).
It's $150 more expensive than the i7 7700 and it only surpasses it, in rendering uses and handbrake. That is neither a win, nor what was suggested by amd before release. For all our sake i hope this can improve down the road with better support.
NOT ONLY in games, but in most desktop-office uses, and some workstation uses as well (like autocad, solidworks, etc.).
It's $150 more expensive than the i7 7700 and it only surpasses it, in rendering uses and handbrake. That is neither a win, nor what was suggested by amd before release. For all our sake i hope this can improve down the road with better support.
Intel's own $1,050 i7 6900k also "lags behind" their $350 i7 7700k when it comes to lightly-threaded performance. You simply can't expect a processor with 8 cores to compete with another that has 4 higher-clocked cores when those additional cores aren't even being used. Most existing games don't yet really benefit from having more than four cores, since Intel's high pricing of their 6 and 8 core chips has kept them as a niche product that most game developers haven't bothered optimizing for. So sure, if you primarily use lightly-threaded applications, a higher-clocked quad-core chip might be better for you. This initial batch of 8 core Ryzen CPUs is not explicitly targeting that use case though, but rather that of Intel's 8 core chips, and in that scenario, they offer comparable performance at less than half the cost.
And I would say that it's at least a "win" that AMD's CPUs are once again roughly on-par with Intel's in terms of efficiency, and use an architecture that should benefit a bit more from compiler optimizations aimed at Intel CPUs. They don't necessarily have to beat Intel's chips in terms of raw performance when they can offer comparable products at more reasonable prices. Ryzen should at least make AMD's chips competitive again, and that can be considered a win for everyone.