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http://www.pcgamer.com/new-amd-ryzen-details-and-pricing-leaks/
There have been quite a few potential leaks in relation to AMD's upcoming Ryzen CPUs. I held off posting some of the latest rumors pending additional details, and those have now arrived. These latest leaks add further fuel to the Ryzen fire.
First, some benchmarks were posted for AMD's Ryzen CPU in the Passmark database, apparently courtesy of German system builder BoostBoxx. The specific Ryzen model is ZD3406BAM88F4_38/34_Y—quite the complex naming scheme at first glance. Digging into the details, this is the 8C/16T (8-core/16-thread) Ryzen part, with a base clock of 3.4GHz and a turbo clock of 3.8GHz. This is still a pre-release sample, but the B-stepping suggests it should be indicative of final retail performance. Of course there's a catch.
The test system from BoostBoxx uses a GTX 1080 graphics card, but it pairs that with an MSI A320M Pro-VD motherboard and 16GB DDR4-2400 memory. This is essentially an OEM build, which are often price optimized in ways that don't always make sense. In this case, using the entry-level AMD AM4 chipset, the A320, may hinder performance slightly, and the same goes for the DDR4-2400 17-17-17 RAM, but it's important to keep the big picture in mind.
Passmark's PerformanceTest v9 is a synthetic benchmark, meaning it tests CPU performance at a low level and often has short code snippets that run mostly from the L1/L2/L3 cache. Because of this, I wouldn't expect the RAM or motherboard to matter much, unless the firmware on the board isn't final. And unfortunately, that's likely the case, as the turbo modes are apparently disabled on the Ryzen part.
Let's quickly look at what sort of synthetic numbers Ryzen is putting up—these are the first Passmark results I've seen, so they're at least somewhat interesting. Passmark's PerformanceTest v9 has nine CPU tests, along with an overall composite score. Here's how the Ryzen chip fares against some other common CPUs—and I'll note that I've run PerformanceTest on my own systems here, with two options, stock and clocked at a static 3.4GHz (to match the Ryzen clock). (The AMD Ryzen, FX, and A10 results are from Passmark's database.)
Click through the gallery for additional test results.
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There have been quite a few potential leaks in relation to AMD's upcoming Ryzen CPUs. I held off posting some of the latest rumors pending additional details, and those have now arrived. These latest leaks add further fuel to the Ryzen fire.
First, some benchmarks were posted for AMD's Ryzen CPU in the Passmark database, apparently courtesy of German system builder BoostBoxx. The specific Ryzen model is ZD3406BAM88F4_38/34_Y—quite the complex naming scheme at first glance. Digging into the details, this is the 8C/16T (8-core/16-thread) Ryzen part, with a base clock of 3.4GHz and a turbo clock of 3.8GHz. This is still a pre-release sample, but the B-stepping suggests it should be indicative of final retail performance. Of course there's a catch.
The test system from BoostBoxx uses a GTX 1080 graphics card, but it pairs that with an MSI A320M Pro-VD motherboard and 16GB DDR4-2400 memory. This is essentially an OEM build, which are often price optimized in ways that don't always make sense. In this case, using the entry-level AMD AM4 chipset, the A320, may hinder performance slightly, and the same goes for the DDR4-2400 17-17-17 RAM, but it's important to keep the big picture in mind.
Passmark's PerformanceTest v9 is a synthetic benchmark, meaning it tests CPU performance at a low level and often has short code snippets that run mostly from the L1/L2/L3 cache. Because of this, I wouldn't expect the RAM or motherboard to matter much, unless the firmware on the board isn't final. And unfortunately, that's likely the case, as the turbo modes are apparently disabled on the Ryzen part.
Let's quickly look at what sort of synthetic numbers Ryzen is putting up—these are the first Passmark results I've seen, so they're at least somewhat interesting. Passmark's PerformanceTest v9 has nine CPU tests, along with an overall composite score. Here's how the Ryzen chip fares against some other common CPUs—and I'll note that I've run PerformanceTest on my own systems here, with two options, stock and clocked at a static 3.4GHz (to match the Ryzen clock). (The AMD Ryzen, FX, and A10 results are from Passmark's database.)
Click through the gallery for additional test results.
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