Performance Application testing

7-Zip archiving

On this page we'll walk through some compression software and content creation applications. We start off with 7-ZIP and look at both compression and decompression. Now instead of endless comparisons with motherboards and processors, today we'll just look at this one build. Yet configured at defaults and in the last stage, completely tweaked.

The first chart shows 7-zip archiving compression, a hard task that takes part in memory for a large segment. This is the threaded 7-zip build btw. You can see performance increases in-between 2133, 2933 and 3200 MHz in April and then in gray 3200 MHz CL14 and in black the CPU overclocked at 4100 MHz. We'll follow this way of perf testing throughout the article.
 

So to make it even more clear: in all conditions the processors is clocked at default processor settings (aside from memory), except the upper black bar, that is 4.1 GHz on the processor with the memory at 3200 MHz CL14. Decompressing requires a lot less memory overhead and as such the results are way more normalized here. Until you overclock it seems. As you can see there are no significant enough measurable performance gains in-between the AGESA 1004 (3200 MHz CL14 April) and AGESA 1006 (3200 MHz CL14 June). 

So where does that place a Ryzen 7 1700 worth 329 USD compared to other processors and platforms? Well, have a look:

So if we chart that value up you can see that performance merely increased from April, however and I will keep saying this. All things combined (faster memory) and a nice tweak will get you high up there in that comparative list. Let's move onwards to Cinebench.

Cinebench 15 is a pure threaded RAW processor test, memory will only have little effect, the outcome is close to NIL. Overclocking however will gain you almost 30% performance with a Ryzen 7 1700 @ 4100 MHz / DDR4 3200 CL14.

Once we place the result set into a chart, that's what the generic picture looks like. I cannot stress enough how great Ryzen processors and the platform is for the money, especially if you tweak a bit. 

FryBench, 3D content creation loves system memory. The faster the memory is clocked the more seconds rendering time we can shave off. Coming from a default clocked Ryzen 7 1700 with 2133 MHz memory towards it being clocked at 3200 MHz CL14, shaves off 16 seconds alone. The overclock + 3200 MHz memory CL14 even drops to 2 minutes and 19 seconds. That is huge. And below, one again we insert the results into the the CPU scaling list. Faster memory has an extensive impact on software like FryBench.