AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Comparison
Intel Core i7-4790K testing with a ASUS Z97-A-USB31 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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

Intel i7-4790K: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A-USB31, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 74GB Western Digital WD740ADFS-00 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4096MB (135/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.9.11-1-ARCH (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 240 |======================================================
Intel i7-4790K .... 231 |====================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 248 |======================================================
Intel i7-4790K .... 250 |======================================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 80.91  |===================================
Intel i7-4790K .... 116.98 |===================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 8.18  |======================
Intel i7-4790K .... 19.15 |====================================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 5.34 |=====================================================
Intel i7-4790K .... 5.07 |==================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 1139.47 |==================================================
Intel i7-4790K .... 733.40  |================================


libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1
Test: Decompression Throughput
Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 177.16 |==================================================
Intel i7-4790K .... 181.09 |===================================================