Asus has introduced a new motherboard designed specifically to facilitate overclocking of the Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU, a processor developed in China. This development is noteworthy as it underscores the capabilities of the KX-7000, especially in comparison to established CPU models from Intel and AMD. Initial tests reveal that the KX-7000 performs between two to three times faster than its predecessors. However, when compared with Intel’s Kaby Lake quad-core CPUs, its performance aligns more closely, particularly with the Intel Core i5-7500 and Core i7-7700K, as well as AMD’s Ryzen 7 1700X. In various benchmarks, including Geekbench 6 and CPU-Z 2.08, the KX-7000 was tested in both stock and overclocked states to gauge its efficiency and power. At stock settings, the KX-7000 scored 351 points in the CPU-Z single-core test and 2,654 points in the multi-core test. It lagged 20% behind the Intel Core i5-7500 in single-core performance but was 43% faster in multi-core performance. Against the Intel Core i7-7700K, it matched multi-core scores but fell short by 29% in single-core performance. Among the CPUs tested, the Ryzen 7 1700X outperformed the KX-7000 in both single and multi-core benchmarks by a significant margin.
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