AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Comparison Intel Core i5-3570K testing with a Gigabyte H61M-D2H-USB3 and Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480 4096MB 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 2500K - 4.2Ghz: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) (MS-7681) v4.0, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ + 165GB Western Digital WD1600YD-01N, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: PX2710MW + L70N, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.9.11-1-4.9.11-ABS (x86_64), Desktop: Openbox 3.6.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0 Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170109 + Clang 3.9.1 + LLVM 3.9.1, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 3200x1080 i5-3570K: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H61M-D2H-USB3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 256GB Crucial_CT256MX1 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EZEX-22B, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: IPS234, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.9.11-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0 Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170109 + TCC 0.9.26 + Clang 3.9.1 + LLVM 3.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 240 |====================================================== 2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 192 |=========================================== i5-3570K .......... 180 |========================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 248 |====================================================== 2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 201 |============================================ i5-3570K .......... 199 |=========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 80.91 |==================== 2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 188.74 |============================================== i5-3570K .......... 209.20 |=================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 8.18 |============== 2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 28.21 |=============================================== i5-3570K .......... 31.34 |==================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 5.34 |======================================== 2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 7.09 |===================================================== i5-3570K .......... 7.05 |===================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 1139.47 |================================================== 2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 521.77 |======================= i5-3570K .......... 475.27 |===================== libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 177.16 |=================================================== 2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 148.63 |=========================================== i5-3570K .......... 148.84 |===========================================