Amd ryzen 7 1700x external analysis

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X is an eight-core processor based on the new AMD Zen microarchitecture that arrives to bring the brand back to the high-end processor market. Initial reviews of the new processor show very promising performance in all scenarios as well as fairly contained consumption and temperatures.

An engineering sample of AMD Ryzen 7 1700X has been tested alongside an MSI B350 Tomahawk motherboard and 16GB of DDR4 3200MHz RAM. Recall that this new processor includes 8 cores and 16 threads that operate at base and turbo frequencies of 3.5 GHz and 3.7 GHz, in addition to including AMD XFR technology.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X: consumption and temperature

First we look at the consumption and temperatures of the new AMD processor, the new Zen microarchitecture is extremely efficient and the Ryzen 7 1700X is the processor that needs less energy to function, less even than the Core i7-6700K and the Core i7-7700K both being quad-core.

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AMD processor temperatures are also excellent, with a simple heatsink of 25 euros (Green Notus 200) it has been able to maintain 82.8ºC at full load, a figure that seems high but let's not forget that a cooling solution has been used Low-end and Intel processors have been hotter except for the Core i7-6950X.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X: synthetic tests and games

We get to the synthetic tests and we see that the biggest weakness of the new Zen microarchitecture is the memory bandwidth, something logical when the most powerful Intel processors use a quad-chanel controller and the Ryzen settle for a dual-chanel. Despite this, the new AMD processor stands as the king in price / performance ratio.

We leave you the screenshots so you can judge for yourself the performance of the Ryzen 7 1700X:

We now look at the games, unfortunately all the titles used are DX 11 so we already know that taking advantage of the processors of many cores is not going to be the best. That said, it is to be expected that the silicons with higher frequencies are the fastest in most cases, and this is the case. The Core i7-6700K and Core i7-7700K lead most of the tests, showing once again that current games are not able to efficiently take advantage of more than 4 cores, at least those programmed with DX 12.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X: overclock

The use of the mid-range B350 chipset has allowed the Ryzen 7 1700X to achieve an overclocked frequency of 3, 991 MHz with a voltage of 1, 448V. Despite being a very light overclock, we see that the performance increase has been appreciable as it is an 8-core, 16-thread processor. The downside is that a fairly high voltage has been required and the power consumption has risen dramatically.