Ryzen 5 & 7 First Generation Retested on X470 Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

When it came to testing, I wasn’t really expecting anything too dramatic, but I was pleasantly surprised by the results. In 3DMark is seems that every single CPU saw a noticeable improvement since our first test last year. The scores are around 30-80 points higher in 3DMark overall per CPU. There’s some improvement in Unigine too, albeit not by much and still on par with what would be expected for that test. One of the best improvements was the 1800X, which jumped from 4931 to 5001 in 3DMark. Furthermore, there was a small gain in WPrime times, and it appears Cinebench can explain why. All of the CPUs saw a very nice gain in their single core performance. Is this the drivers, motherboard, BIOS, microcode? I think it’s a bit of everything, but faster is faster, so no complaints here.

Overclocking results were very good too, and I found it far easier to hit a stable overclock on X470 than we ever did on X370. What I did notice is that the 1700X was just 441 points behind the new 2700X in 3DMark, while the old score from the 1700X is 1517 points behind the 2700X; that’s a huge improvement in just one year.

3DMark Firestrike

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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

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PCMark 10 Express

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WPrime 32M and 1024M

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Cinebench R15

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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

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