Ryzen7_vs_i7_6900K AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS PRIME B350M-A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ryzen7@3,8GHz-1: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.80GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1261/3504MHz), Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fb9, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.10.1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ryzen7@3,8GHz-2: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.80GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (17/3504MHz), Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fb9, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.10.1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ryzen7@3,8GHz-3: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.80GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (40/3504MHz), Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fb9, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.10.1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 i7_6900K@4,0GHz-1: Processor: Intel Core i7-6900K @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A II, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 480GB SanDisk SDSSDHII + 2 x Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1265/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.10.1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 5760x2160 i7_6900K@4,0GHz-2: Processor: Intel Core i7-6900K @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A II, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 480GB SanDisk SDSSDHII + 2 x Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1265/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.10.1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 5760x2160 i7_6900K@4,0GHz-3: Processor: Intel Core i7-6900K @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A II, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 480GB SanDisk SDSSDHII + 2 x Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1265/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.10.1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 5760x2160 Ryzen7@3,9GHz-1: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.90GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1261/3504MHz), Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fb9, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.10.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-1: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.90GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (18/3504MHz), Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fb9, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.10.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ryzen7@3,9GHz-2: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.90GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1259/3504MHz), Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fb9, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.10.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ryzen7@3,8GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-1: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.80GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1260/3504MHz), Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fb9, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.10.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-2: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.90GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (19/3504MHz), Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fb9, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.10.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.37, Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20170306 + Clang 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ryzen7@3,8GHz-1 .............. 201 |===================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-2 .............. 224 |========================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-3 .............. 223 |========================================= i7_6900K@4,0GHz-1 ............ 195 |==================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-2 ............ 232 |=========================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-3 ............ 232 |=========================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-1 .............. 231 |=========================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-2 .............. 231 |=========================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-1 . 226 |========================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-2 . 231 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Ryzen7@3,8GHz-1 .............. 220 |====================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-2 .............. 236 |======================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-3 .............. 237 |========================================= i7_6900K@4,0GHz-1 ............ 214 |===================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-2 ............ 251 |=========================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-3 ............ 250 |=========================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-1 .............. 246 |========================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-2 .............. 245 |========================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-1 . 239 |========================================= Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-2 . 246 |========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen7@3,8GHz-1 .............. 78.72 |========================================= Ryzen7@3,8GHz-2 .............. 76.39 |======================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-3 .............. 77.08 |======================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-1 ............ 70.26 |===================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-2 ............ 66.64 |=================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-3 ............ 66.24 |=================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-1 .............. 73.94 |======================================= Ryzen7@3,9GHz-2 .............. 75.79 |======================================= Ryzen7@3,8GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-1 . 49.36 |========================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-2 . 64.70 |================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen7@3,8GHz-1 .............. 8.08 |=============================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-2 .............. 7.98 |============================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-3 .............. 7.99 |============================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-1 ............ 10.75 |========================================= i7_6900K@4,0GHz-2 ............ 10.52 |======================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-3 ............ 10.52 |======================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-1 .............. 7.77 |============================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-2 .............. 7.76 |============================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-1 . 7.97 |============================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-2 . 7.77 |============================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen7@3,8GHz-1 .............. 5.76 |======================================= Ryzen7@3,8GHz-2 .............. 5.64 |======================================= Ryzen7@3,8GHz-3 .............. 5.65 |======================================= i7_6900K@4,0GHz-1 ............ 6.14 |========================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-2 ............ 5.52 |====================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-3 ............ 5.50 |====================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-1 .............. 5.49 |====================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-2 .............. 5.51 |====================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-1 . 5.65 |======================================= Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-2 . 5.51 |====================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ryzen7@3,8GHz-1 .............. 1168.27 |=============================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-2 .............. 1169.80 |=============================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-3 .............. 1168.67 |=============================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-1 ............ 1428.33 |====================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-2 ............ 1454.27 |======================================= i7_6900K@4,0GHz-3 ............ 1456.77 |======================================= Ryzen7@3,9GHz-1 .............. 1201.70 |================================ Ryzen7@3,9GHz-2 .............. 1200.83 |================================ Ryzen7@3,8GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-1 . 1170.77 |=============================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@3200MHz-2 . 1200.27 |================================