AMD Ryzen 7 1800X AM4 8-Core Processor Review

CPU Benchmarks

Ashes of the Singularity

Ashes of the Singularity is great for DX12 testing, as it can use all the cores on offer. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be doing that great here and we’ve heard in the industry of similar issues at 1080p. I don’t think that this is a problem with Ryzen, it should be better and we’ll revisit this score should any bugs be found that aren’t giving us the expected performance.

Cinebench R15

Now we’re talking, Ryzen is eager to stretch its legs at stock clocks. The chip automatically took its self up to 4.1GHz in the stock test using XFR, and while manually overclocked, it pulled ahead even further, giving many of the top-end Intel chips a thrashing given that the 1800X is around half the price.

Handbrake

The advantage of more cores for video rendering is clear, with the 1800X going toe-to-toe with the 7700K. We do think it can do better however, and we think that we know the problem, but we’ll get to that in our memory tests.

WPrime

WPrime is taxing on any CPU, and it certainly made the latest AMD chip sweat it out, but we still posted some mighty impressive numbers. Not only did it set a fantastic 32M time of 4.688 while overclocked, it also set one of our best 1024M times, mixing it with some of the Intel Extreme hardware, a result that AMD can be more than proud of.

WinRAR

Compression didn’t go too well, again we’re certain that this should be better, but for now it is what it is. Most likely a few bugs in the BIOS to be worked out; it can’t all be smooth sailing pre-launch.