The first review of the ryzen 7 2700x puts it below the core i5 8400 in games

The first real benchmarks of the Ryzen 7 2700X, AMD's new top-of-the-range processor under the Zen architecture, have appeared. This new processor has been tested against the Ryzen 7 1800X, Core i7-8700K and Core i5 8400.

Ryzen 7 2700X offers noticeable enhancement but not enough to catch up to Intel in gaming

Now we look at the synthetic tests PovRay, Blender 3D and 3DSMax, here the Ryzen 7 2700X offers a 14% improvement compared to the Ryzen 7 1800X, the previous top of the range AMD. Compared to the Core i7 8700K, it is 16% more powerful, making it a very good investment for users who are going to use very demanding applications with the CPU.

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First of all, we look at The Witcher 3, Grand Theft Auto V, Project Cars and Arma III games, in this area the Ryzen 7 2700X is 3.4 percent faster than the Ryzen 7 1800X, which puts it right for below the Core i5 8400, showing that video games will continue to be the main weakness of Zen architecture. The Core i7-8700K will continue to be the king of games for a good season, until Intel decides to stop being like this, its Advantage over AMD's new chip is 14.3%.

The latency of access to RAM has been significantly improved, although it is still at least 13 ns above Intel, which is quite a difference. Finally we look at the consumption, the Ryzen 7 2700X consumes 13.2W more than the Ryzen 7 1800X, so the step at 12nm has not been enough, to see an increase in frequency without consumption increases.

With these results it is confirmed that the second generation Ryzen offer a small improvement, but no revolution, for this we will have to wait for the third generation and its Zen 2 architecture.

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