AMD Ryzen 7 News: Ryzen 7 CPU Does 52% More Work Per Cycle But Is Lowest Price Desktop Chip

AMD will challenge Intel’s domination of the chipset market with the launch of the Ryzen 7 chip on March 2. The Ryzen 7 is a desktop CPU line based on Zen architecture. Ryzen 7 offers a major improvement on the number of instructions the chip could handle at once.

5 Times Bandwidth

Engadget reports that the Ryzen 7 CPU could do 52 percent more work per cycle compared to a predecessor with a similar clock. This was made possible by a newer 14-nanometer manufacturing process which resulted in five times the bandwidth and architectural upgrade that were long overdue. With its Hyper-Threading, the AMD processor could execute two code paths simultaneously.

Besides the performance of the Ryzen 7 CPU, AMD says it has the bragging rights to owning the lowest-priced power 8-core desktop chip with a 65W thermal design target. The 3GHz Ryzen 7 1700 is priced at $329. AMD claims the Ryzen 7 1700 is better than the more expensive Intel Core i7 1700 in multithreaded chip test. AMD’s 3.4GHZ 1700X, priced at $399, also outperformed the Core i7 6800K, while the 3.5GHZ 1800X of Ryzen also performed better than the $1,050 Core i7 6900K despite costing half at $499.

Only Cinebench R15 Used

However, Engadget notes these benchmark results use only Cinebench R15 which provides only a comparable 4K gaming experience. The better test is how the devices running on Ryzen 7 CPU would perform in real-world tests against Intel chips. Arstechnica reports that AMD claims its new processors had nine percent higher score than Intel’s, but in the single-threaded version of the test, it was almost an even match.

Meanwhile, Tom’s Hardware reports that Asus announced four new AM4 motherboards that were designed to support the new AMD Ryzen 7 CPU. The flagship of Asus AM4 would be the ROG Crosshair VI Hero. It has superior cooling over the power regulation circuitry of the board that would help improve overclocking results. Sound clarity would improve with its use of the Asus SupremeFX technology featuring a higher-quality audio sub-system.