AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Comparison
Intel Core i7-6900K testing with a MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 on Fedora 25 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

Work Desktop: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-6900K @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 8002GB Seagate ST8000AS0002-1NA + 4001GB My Passport 259D + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 25, Kernel: 4.9.10-200.fc25.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20161221 + Clang 3.8.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 5.34 |========================================
2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 7.09 |=====================================================
Work Desktop ...... 6.22 |==============================================


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 |===========================================
Work Desktop ...... 158.73 |==============================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 80.91  |======================
2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 188.74 |===================================================
Work Desktop ...... 70.10  |===================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 240 |======================================================
2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 192 |===========================================
Work Desktop ...... 177 |========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 248 |======================================================
2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 201 |============================================
Work Desktop ...... 197 |===========================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X . 8.18  |===============
2500K - 4.2Ghz .... 28.21 |====================================================
Work Desktop ...... 11.32 |=====================


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  |===================
Work Desktop ...... 1348.93 |==================================================