FryBench, Corona, and Realbench.

Next up, we have a relatively well-known suite of benchmarks that ask your system to various things. Corona is a simple render test, and you should expect overclocked memory to make a difference here. Likewise, the Frybench software is based on the highly taxing Fryrender engine. This utterly saturates your CPU, naturally. Realbench, from our friends over at Asus, is a highly taxing multitasking benchmark or stress test, and - for many - is a go-to tool for testing overall system stability.

First up, Corona. This is a ray tracing benchmark, basically (any jokes about RTX being on or off, please leave at the door). With the memory at default settings, the system pulled in a highly respectable 2m and 13s. With memory overclocked, we actually saw just a 1s reduction in time, which I would put down to margin of error.

Frybench turned in a 2m and 30s render time with default memory. Almost bang on the time achieved by the 8700k and Apacer kit reviewed earlier in the year. I suspect, here, that frequency is playing a fairly heavy part in the similar result, despite the 1700X having 2 more cores and 4 more threads. With overclocked memory... a whole 1s reduction. Wow. To be fair, we are seeing the differences here in tasks/applications that look solely for total available bandwidth, and those that take note of lower latency, which is what we have here.

Realbench is a true multitasking benchmark, consisting of OpenCL, video encoding, image manipulation, and generic multitasking. With stock memory, it scored a 124,972. Not bad for what is now a fairly middle of the range system! However, with memory tuned and manually overclocked... yep, another application worth boosting your DIMMs for, with the PC returning a 5,000 point boost. Most notable gains were in the image editing and multitasking, where I could quite literally see the system was both faster and snappier.