AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Comparison
Intel Xeon X5650 testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH X58 and ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2048MB on Ubuntu 16.10 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

Fanfan X5650: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH X58, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 2000GB TOSHIBA HDWD120 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HN-M101M, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL-8110SC/8169SC

	OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-39-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050

Intel Xeon X5650: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH X58, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 2000GB TOSHIBA HDWD120 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HN-M101M, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL-8110SC/8169SC

	OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-39-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050

Fanfan X5650@Stock: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH X58, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 2000GB TOSHIBA HDWD120 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HN-M101M, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL-8110SC/8169SC

	OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-39-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .. 240 |=====================================================
Fanfan X5650 ....... 141 |===============================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 141 |===============================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 140 |===============================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 99  |======================
Fanfan X5650@Stock . 99  |======================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .. 248 |=====================================================
Fanfan X5650 ....... 147 |===============================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 146 |===============================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 139 |==============================
Fanfan X5650@Stock . 106 |=======================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .. 80.91  |==================
Fanfan X5650 ....... 159.55 |===================================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 158.62 |===================================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 158.65 |===================================
Fanfan X5650@Stock . 228.51 |==================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .. 8.18  |==============
Fanfan X5650 ....... 20.54 |===================================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 20.50 |===================================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 20.49 |===================================
Fanfan X5650@Stock . 30.00 |===================================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .. 5.34  |===================
Fanfan X5650 ....... 10.01 |===================================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 10.11 |====================================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 10.15 |====================================
Fanfan X5650@Stock . 14.51 |===================================================


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


libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1
Test: Decompression Throughput
Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X .. 177.16 |==================================================
Fanfan X5650 ....... 110.76 |===============================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 111.45 |===============================
Intel Xeon X5650 ... 110.49 |===============================
Fanfan X5650@Stock . 76.40  |======================