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7Zip & WPrime

WPRime is Guru3D's stress tester of choice, as it puts a very heavy load on the CPU and memory. Using the 1024MB data set, the application calculates a set number of square roots using Newton’s method for functions estimation, and then it verifies the results by squaring them. Way over my head, but then again I was always diabolically bad at anything mathematical. If there are errors, the application will tell you, if your PC doesn't just straight up crash. If it does... probably safe to assume that there are errors? 7Zip, by contrast, is a well-known compression/decompression application. Ryzen is well known to be phenomenally good at decompression using 7Zip, but weaker in compression. Again, we will see just how much of a difference lower latency and faster memory makes when using this application.


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The first test, then. WPrime. So how does she do? Very well, as it happens. With the XMP at stock settings, the system churned out a 1024 completion in just 102.945 seconds. With the memory overclocked, however... well, actually we saw a slight dip, but that really is margin of error stuff, and I didn't expect to see a difference here.

Looking at the 7Zip benchmark tool, and immediately we see the classic Ryzen strength in decompression work, whilst falling a little behind in compression work. Given that most people are probably going to be caring about decompressing large downloaded files, I'd say this is the right way around for the masses?

With default memory, we saw 37,931 for compression work, and 47,637 for decompression work. The benchmark will run infinitely until told to stop, so bare that in mind. With manually overclocked memory, we saw little to no gain when looking at decompression (suggesting that all decompression work is entirely CPU bound with little on memory). However, when looking at pure compression work, wow. We saw a 2,800 point increase in this field, and I was legitimately taken aback (again). Whilst there isn't much to say, here, it is becoming increasingly evident that memory overclocking on Ryzen platforms can really help out memory access and/or latency shortcomings.


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