CPU Benchmarks
Ashes of the Singularity
Straight away we see good results from the 1700X, sitting right between the 1700 and the 1800X in both stock and overclocked scenarios; right where we expected it to be.
Cinebench R15
Again, we see the 1700X breathing down the neck of the 1800X, but the higher clock speeds of the 1800X do give it a small advantage.
Handbrake
Ryzen does a good job of transcoding video thanks to its 8-core design, clocking in at 57.2 FPS while overclocked; very respectable.
WPrime
Another solid result, around 5% behind the 1800X while overclocked. With the exception of the £1600+ Intel 6950X, Ryzen is dominating the results here.
WinRAR
We’ve had trouble with Ryzen here before, it doesn’t like this benchmark, but pushing the overclocks did help bring that time down by a significant amount.
Nice review.
I think that the 1700 is by far the most interesting chip to date as this can be easily overclocked and has a lower starting TDP than the other 2 cpu’s. Motherboard support is terrible, but I believe that this is more due to AMD not letting the vendors have the code to play with until very close to release!!
Your recommended vcore for overclocking is a bit on the high side, 1.475v will likely end up being closer to 1.5v under load and this is well above even the 1.45vcore that AMD suggests would already shorten the life of the cpu.
Perhaps this could be a starting point to determine full stability and then a user might start to lower vcore until stability is lost. I have my 1700 at 4.00ghz on the MSI Carbon at full stability at 1.3875v and 1.10v on NB. I have a custom loop and this results in OCCT load temps of 54C on the cpu!!
Cooler loop means that my 1080 runs even cooler and I can now overclock the GPU by another 10mhz on the core. Not much, but interesting none the less.
Lower vcore for overclocking may be a result of the initial lower tdp of the 1700 cpu. Something for a future article on Ryzen overclocking???