Ryzen 7 1800X Linux Compilation Perf 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. 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: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20161229, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Ryzen 7 1700: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.00GHz (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 3968MB, 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: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.0- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Vulkan: 1.0.39, 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: Intel 9 Family HD Audio, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.9.11-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.29, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen 7 1800X . 28.20 |======================================================== Ryzen 7 1700 .. 28.35 |======================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen 7 1800X .. 55.90 |================================================= Ryzen 7 1700 ... 56.64 |================================================= Intel i7-4790K . 63.38 |======================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen 7 1800X .. 84.65 |======================================= Ryzen 7 1700 ... 89.51 |========================================= Intel i7-4790K . 117.28 |====================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen 7 1800X .. 22.31 |=================================================== Ryzen 7 1700 ... 22.43 |==================================================== Intel i7-4790K . 23.88 |=======================================================