AMD Ryzen 7 1800X AM4 8-Core Processor Review

Discrete GPU Benchmarks

3DMark

This one has got me stumped, from friends in the industry we know it should be benching higher, at least another 1000 points or so, but we just couldn’t get it there. The score isn’t bad for a GTX 980 Ti, but we’ll revisit this test in the near future should we find the gremlin in the results.

Rise of the Tomb Raider

AMD has marketed Ryzen as bringing the benefits of a powerful multi-core CPU to the gaming masses, and boy have they delivered. Straight away the 1800X is near the top of our charts, and with a bit of an overclock, it beats out everything by an impressive margin.

Shadow of Mordor

Stock performance was respectable here, within a few FPS of pretty much everything else, but push those clocks up and it once again it beat out all the top-end Intel offerings. You wanted a gaming chip? Here it is!