AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Comparison
Intel Core i5-6600K testing with a ASUS H170 PRO GAMING and Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite.


AMD Ryzen 7 1800X: 

	Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: AMD Fiji HDMI/DP, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-9-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.4 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20161229, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

majorita: 

	Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 6176 SE @ 2.30GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DGU, Chipset: AMD RD890 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST31000524AS + 2 x 4001GB HGST HDN724040AL, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82576 Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-34-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

AMD Opteron 6176 SE: 

	Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 6176 SE @ 2.30GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DGU, Chipset: AMD RD890 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST31000524AS + 2 x 4001GB HGST HDN724040AL, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82576 Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-34-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

i5-6600K - ArchLinux - Default: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS H170 PRO GAMING, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB SanDisk SDSSDHP2 + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500BPKT-8, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Q2577W, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7260

	OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.9.11-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 80  |==============
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .............. 240 |=========================================
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 77  |=============
i5-6600K - ArchLinux - Default . 168 |=============================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .............. 248 |=========================================
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 83  |==============
i5-6600K - ArchLinux - Default . 198 |=================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 82.48  |====================
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .............. 80.91  |===================
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 76.57  |==================
i5-6600K - ArchLinux - Default . 157.89 |======================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 9.76  |=======
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .............. 8.18  |======
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 9.97  |=======
i5-6600K - ArchLinux - Default . 55.77 |=======================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 17.59 |=======================================
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .............. 5.34  |============
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 17.61 |=======================================
i5-6600K - ArchLinux - Default . 5.21  |============


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .............. 1139.47 |===========================
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 1585.60 |=====================================
i5-6600K - ArchLinux - Default . 608.50  |==============


libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1
Test: Decompression Throughput
Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 69.08  |===============
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .............. 177.16 |======================================
AMD Opteron 6176 SE ............ 68.05  |===============
i5-6600K - ArchLinux - Default . 167.82 |====================================