Product Showcase - Ryzen processor

Product Showcase

Alright, it's time for some photos. We received the two Ryzen 2000 Series processors. Once you have one in your hand you realize these actually are a little heavy. 
  

• The Ryzen 7 2700 processor clocks in at a base-clock of 3.2 GHz, yet can Turbo to 4.1 GHz depending on load levels versus active threads.
• The Ryzen 7 2700X clocks in at a base-clock of 3.7 GHz, yet can Turbo to 4.3 GHz depending on load levels versus active threads (with the right conditions).

Once all cores are stressed, the base clock is the leading factor, and a difference of 500 MHz on eight cores between the 2700 and 2700X is just massive. For boost, a non X model overall runs 200 MHz slower. 

 
Given it's an 8-core architecture, AMD is really nicely managing that clock frequency. The Ryzen 7 2700 is physically an 8-core part, it has two CCXes, and each CCX has four cores, which makes it a 4+4 core configuration. Not bad for 299 USD.
 

 
For best fine-grained Turbo support, we do recommend a series 400 motherboard, X470 of course. Tweak it a little, pop in a mainstream graphics card and you'll have a very sweet gaming rig. Mind you that with a BIOS update the 300 series chipsets will work well. So yes, you can use an X370 motherboard. However, Turbos are more precise on the new X470 series, as well as XFR2.

 
We test on the X470 chipset today on the Ryzen 7 2700, this is the ROG Crosshair VII HERO (Wi-fi) motherboard.