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 Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings1: 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 (1258/3504MHz), 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@2933MHzTimings2: 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 (1257/3504MHz), 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 Stock: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.00GHz (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: 1920x1080 Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514: 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-BIOS0514_DDR4_3200MHz: 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 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 |==================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings1 .. 231 |==================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings2 .. 232 |==================================== Ryzen7 Stock ........................ 192 |============================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514 .............. 230 |==================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514_DDR4_3200MHz . 232 |==================================== 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 |=================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings1 .. 245 |=================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings2 .. 245 |=================================== Ryzen7 Stock ........................ 202 |============================= Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514 .............. 245 |=================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514_DDR4_3200MHz . 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 |======================= Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings1 .. 74.90 |=========================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings2 .. 73.76 |=========================== Ryzen7 Stock ........................ 93.84 |================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514 .............. 74.48 |=========================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514_DDR4_3200MHz . 60.55 |====================== 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 |========================= Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings1 .. 7.78 |========================= Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings2 .. 7.78 |========================= Ryzen7 Stock ........................ 9.58 |============================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514 .............. 7.77 |========================= Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514_DDR4_3200MHz . 7.76 |========================= 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 |=============================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings1 .. 5.57 |================================ Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings2 .. 5.54 |================================ Ryzen7 Stock ........................ 5.99 |================================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514 .............. 5.52 |=============================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514_DDR4_3200MHz . 5.52 |=============================== 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 |========================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings1 .. 1201.27 |========================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-DDR4@2933MHzTimings2 .. 1200.87 |========================== Ryzen7 Stock ........................ 984.80 |====================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514 .............. 1201.33 |========================== Ryzen7@3,9GHz-BIOS0514_DDR4_3200MHz . 1201.50 |==========================