Ryzen7_vs_i7_6900K AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS PRIME B350M-A (5220 BIOS) and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB on Arch Linux 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 yzen7@3,8GHz-2019-1: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350M-A (5220 BIOS), Chipset: AMD 17h, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB + 250GB Portable SSD T5 + 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 750, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB (1265/3505MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GM204 HD Audio, Monitor: DELL UP2516D, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 5.4.6-arch3-1 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.17.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 440.44, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 + Clang 9.0.0 + CUDA 10.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 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 |====================================================== 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 |====================================================== 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 |============================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen7@3,8GHz-1 ..... 8.080 |===================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-2 ..... 7.980 |==================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-3 ..... 7.990 |==================================== i7_6900K@4,0GHz-1 ... 10.750 |================================================= i7_6900K@4,0GHz-2 ... 10.520 |================================================ i7_6900K@4,0GHz-3 ... 10.520 |================================================ yzen7@3,8GHz-2019-1 . 8.523 |======================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ryzen7@3,8GHz-1 ..... 5.760 |============================================== Ryzen7@3,8GHz-2 ..... 5.640 |============================================= Ryzen7@3,8GHz-3 ..... 5.650 |============================================= i7_6900K@4,0GHz-1 ... 6.140 |================================================= i7_6900K@4,0GHz-2 ... 5.520 |============================================ i7_6900K@4,0GHz-3 ... 5.500 |============================================ yzen7@3,8GHz-2019-1 . 6.297 |================================================== 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 |================================================ yzen7@3,8GHz-2019-1 . 1168.50 |=======================================