AMD Ryzen processors were first introduced this year, and the Ryzen brand of processors were the first products to implement AMD's Zen microarchitecture. AMD'S Ryzen processors were first announced last year on Dec. 13.
TechSpot recently ran benchmark tests for AMD Ryzen processors, and their tests also checked the gaming performance of the processors across 16 different video games, all of which were tried at 1080p and 1440p resolutions.
TechSpot's tests also included the results for the 1800X and 1700X with SMT disabled since some Anandtech forum users have reported a problem with the Windows 1- scheduler. Apparently, it can "cause Ryzen to perform worse in lightly-threaded applications with SMT enabled" since Windows 10 allegedly "treats all Ryzen threads the same" by not identifying SMT from physical cores. This results in the operating system thinking that "all threads have access to their own L2 and L3 cache when in fact they don't."
For the test, TechSpot built a new test system with a Gigabyte X370 Gaming 5 motherboard and EK XLC Predator 240 all-in-one liquid cooler. The Gaming 5 is updated with the latest F3 BIOS revision, and the set-ups Corsair DDR4 memory was running at 1.5GHz for a double data rate of 3000 mega transfers per second.
Results from the benchmark include 16 different video game titles tested at two resolutions on 11 processors, along with the two configurations minus SMT. TechSpot gathered 416 results from an estimated 1,205 benchmark runs.
Ryzen's System Specs includes the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (3.6 - 4.0 GHz), AMD Ryzen 7 1700X (3.4 - 3.8 GHz), Gigabyte X370 Gaming 5, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, Nvidia Titan X (Pascal), and Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Vishera's System Specs includes the AMD FX-8370 (4.0 - 4.3 GHz), Asrock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional, 32GB DDR3-2400 RAM, Nvidia Titan X (Pascal), and Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
Meanwhile, Haswell-E & Broadwell-E's System Specs includes Intel Core i7-6900K (3.2 - 3.7 GHz), Intel Core i7-5960X (3.0 - 3.5 GHz), Asrock X99 Taichi, 32GB DDR4-2666 RAM, Nvidia Titan X (Pascal), and Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Last is Kaby Lake & Skylake's System Specs with Intel Core i7-7700K (4.2 - 4.5 GHz), Intel Core i5-7600K (3.8 - 4.0 GHz), Intel Core i7-6700K (4.0 - 4.2 GHz), Intel Core i5-6600K (3.5 - 3.9 GHz), Intel Core i3-7350K (4.2 GHz), Asrock Z270 Gaming K6, 32GB DDR4-3000 RAM, Nvidia Titan X (Pascal), and Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
With "Tom Clancy's The Division," there is a "rather severe GPU bottleneck (even at 1080p) when using the ultra quality settings." Once the dual-core Intel chips or the AMD FX-8370 is looked into, performance "fall[s] away ever so slightly." The 1440p results are similar: the dual-core Intel chips managed to "catch up for the average frame rate," but they are still "lacking slightly when looking at the minimum." All AMD Ryzen CPUs did well at this point in the benchmark test. Check out the article from TechSpot article for the rest of the results.
In a separate report by PC Perspective, it was revealed why AMD Ryzen is not always able to "keep up in 1080p gaming." When gaming at 1080p, "even at 'ultra' image quality settings," many "top games" have decreased performance, especially when compared to Intel Kaby Lake and Broadwell-E processors. The online publication reached out to the company, and John Taylor, CVP of Marketing replied with a statement.
According to AMD's CVP of Marketing, "CPU benchmarking deficits to the competition in certain games at 1080p resolution can be attributed to the development and optimization of the game uniquely to Intel platforms - until now. Even without optimizations in place, Ryzen delivers high, smooth frame rates on all "CPU-bound" games, as well as overall smooth frame rates and great experiences in GPU-bound gaming and VR. With developers taking advantage of Ryzen architecture and the extra cores and threads, we expect benchmarks to only get better, and enable Ryzen excel at next generation gaming experiences as well." Taylor continued, "Game performance will be optimized for Ryzen and continue to improve from at-launch frame rate scores."
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