French Magazine posts engineering sample AMD Ryzen Processor benchmarks
The French based CanardPC performed tests with an engineering sample AMD Ryzen-cpu, the publication entails a 3.15 GHz sample which was tested into detail and with many tests. They published the results.
Little can be said about how valid the actual tests are if you publish on an early ES sample and BETA motherboard, the author of the article (which is the guy behind CPU-Z) does warn that these are not to be considered final scores. The performance may have been limited by a number of bugs in the beta engineering sample CPU. However a full page scan of the magazine already is posted everywhere on the web (you can find it in the thumbnails lower on this page).
Sample 1 | Sample 2 | Sample 3 | Sample 4 | |
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Cores | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 |
Clock | 2,8 GHz | 2,9 GHz | 2,8 GHz | 3,15 GHz |
Turbo 1 core | 3,2 GHz | 3,3 GHz | 3,21 GHz | 3,5 GHz |
Turbo all cores | 3,05 GHz | 3,1 GHz | 3,05 GHz | 3,3 GHz |
From the looks of it, AMD has distributed four different samples of Zen to some of their key partners, (motherboard manufacturers and OEMs like HP and Dell). The four samples are divided into two quad-cores and two eight-core models. The sample that got in posiession of Canard PC is labeled with product code 2D3151A2M88E4, this is an 8-core version with the aforementioned baseclock of 3.15 GHz. It seems that the boost clock was the biggest limiter as it never exceeded 3.4 GHz (whereas AMD recently announced that the final processors already will get a baseclock of 3.4 GHZ with higher turbos.
CanardPC posted several tests and segmented them into three benchmakrs: The first one is a normalized chart based on wPrime, PovRay, Blender and 3DSMax. At 3.15 / 3.4 GHz the processor seems to do quite well, faster then a 6-core i7 6800K but slower then a 6900K (8 cores), which makes sense at these ES clock frequencies. In the following chart we show the performance in games.
The Ryzen processor is at Core i5 6600 - level. This has to do with the ES sample lower clocks really, games do not take much advantage of the high number of cores on Zen but do like high frequencies. For the final test they had a peek at power consumption, which was roughly 93 watts making it as efficient as a i7 6900K.
And there you have it folks, this ES sample is clocked low, the fastest Boost clock will be the actual BASE clock on the final product. Also it had to be tested on beta motherboards so take this review (although official) with a grain of salt really. But it certainly is a nice indicative preliminary report.
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What's obvious from these benchmarks (if they are to be believed) is that single-core performance is still lower than Intel. However if there is enough overclocking head-room, this CPU and its lower-tier lineups (priced appropriately), could make some damage.
Hopefully the turbo-boost speeds are good enough when they are revealed, and on top of that, hopefully there is great overclocking potential in Ryzen. Especially in the mid-range 8-core version of this CPU (since that will likely become the highest seller).
We all really need AMD to pull through on this one. We need the competition.
Obvious from these benchmarks? Jesus.. it was obvious from the get go! 40% IPC increase we ALWAYS knew to place per core performance at around Broadwell level.. or weren't you paying any attention to the news over the last year or so? We always knew Ryzen was about multi-core performance hence why the first bench to be leaked was Blender.
How are they not going to pull through? Intel if it's smart will adjust prices so that people consider upgrading to their own parts when Ryzen is released.
Zen SR3: (65W, quad-core, eight threads, ~$150 USD)
Zen SR5: (95W, hexa-core, twelve threads, ~$250 USD)
Zen SR7: (95W, octo-core, sixteen threads, ~$350 USD)
Special Zen SR7: (95W, octo-core, sixteen threads, ~$500 USD)
I'm pretty sure that it's going to be a lot cheaper.
AMD need money.. they'll charge what people will pay, as above. The only thing that Ryzen has forced Intel to do is create Coffee Lake and it will likely push prices down a bit on their existing six and eight core products. Nothing major.
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Yes but look at them from different perspective, the only fresh and heavy engine game out of 7 is Witcher 3 and I don`t think it can utilise more than 4 cores (DX12 will do more), and the CPU I have i5 6600 can do 3.6Ghz with prime95 at all cores and 3.9Ghz when not. The best sample of ZEN is doing 3.4Ghz, that is 0.5Ghz lower in turbo and 0.45Ghz lower when stressed. Whole difference between 4c 4t i5 6600 and 8c 16t engineering sample is -1.3%, if a 6 core 12 thread RYZEN shows up with more turbo than i5 6600 but with even lower price point it will eat up a lot of market share. The results are just fine and a proper RYZEN is very promising.
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I am really curious to see a clock to clock gaming benchmark: Zen vs 6700K, if they downclock the i7 to the Zen ES clocks the results on gaming should be really interesting!
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Purely from a gaming perspective here; the i5 6500 which costs approx £220 is offering about the same performance. A stock i5 6600 is £240. My i7 6700k was £260 at time of purchase 1st quarter 2016 (£330 now).
I've already said in the other thread that for the majority of people that they wouldn't notice the difference unless they're into content creation or streaming+gaming on one system etc. This article actually confirms my thoughts on this.
While it's ok to speculate on what future performance "could" bring (which I've also commented on), the fact of the matter is the base performance for a gamer with our current crop of games will not be enough to entice those people to upgrade.
If you had an i5 6500 or i5 6600 already and you only played games, why would you "upgrade"? Right now, it would be a side-grade at best.
However, if you're not a gamer, then, I think this is an excellent processor. Providing the price is right, for me it could be an excellent music studio cpu.
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Now the only remaining factor to consider is Price- If they get that right they will get some backing from the community, If not and they price it like they did the original Fx 9590 Nobody will boder with it.
Lets hope they play there cards right.