During GDC2017, AMD showcased a slide with the first official gaming benchmarks between its Ryzen 7 1700X CPU and Intel’s Core i7 6800K. While there is an embargo for these benchmarks (meaning that the websites that have signed an NDA cannot share it until tomorrow), this slide found its way to the Internet.
As always, these are official benchmarks and may – or may not – favour AMD. For what it’s worth, the embargo for third-party benchmarks will be lifted later today.
AMD’s slide featured six games: Grand Theft Auto V, Alien: Isolation, DOOM, Battlefield 4, Ashes of The Singularity and Civilization VI.
From the looks of it, and despite the leaked benchmarks that we shared on Monday, the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X comes close but does not surpass Intel’s Core i7 6800K.
Keep in mind of course that AMD’s Ryzen 7 1700X will be priced at $399 while Intel’s Core i7 6800K is currently priced at $420. Not only that but Ryzen 7 1700X comes with 8 cores (Intel Core i7 6800K features 6 cores), features a lower TDP and higher clock speeds.
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Interesting, the almighty Ryzen, with all the pimping of useless Cinebench scores and the top of the line 1700X cannot beat a slow as dirt, two generation old PoS like the 6800k (not to mention it is an 8 core vs a 6 core). I wonder what the AMD fanboys will say when even AMD’s own biased slides show their product is inferior.
Well it doesn’t loose by much at this point we could call it even. The point made here is that with amd you get more for your money in terms of specs. But we all know that specs doesn’t always translate into real world performance.
It’s always about how the game/app is coded.
“But we all know that specs doesn’t always translate into real world performance.”
the story of AMD’s life
sadly.
Do not feed the troll.
Add to that lower power consumption and temperatures.
AMD fans mentioning lower power consumption and temps as a selling point?
Now that’s some funny sh*t.
Like AMD fans ever cared about that in the first place.
Gotta love all pc peasants fighting over this crap endlessly. It’s even more pathetic than PS4 vs XBONER bs.
agreed funny part is people forget game designers fine tune software to run better on this or that it smart really if you make a game you know more people have Intel your going to fine tune it for that so it runs better its not bias its businesses. I would if i made a game you would be stupid not to. i say wait for more benchmarks by more people. Then make an educated decision.
Well, when you have the ultimate gaming platform, these things can happen kid.
Just enjoy it why do so many gamers have to be idiots and fighting over never ending flame wars.
Agreed. Just don’t add to it.
Such is the fanboy mentality regardless of favoured brand. Fanboys only ever claim that something matters when it favours their chosen brand.
PC is not all about gaming You do realize that right?
I honestly don’t understand why anyone would go now with 6 or 8 core part (be it Intel or AMD) in pure gaming rig. Quads, due to their higher clocks, will perform better in these scenarios.
Not to mention that R5 is not presented at all.
Comparing this in meaningful benchmarks (mostly MT) shows that Ryzen performs almost identical (if not better) as Intel having half of price tag (I’m talking here about 1800X part).
If anyone thought that Ryzen will beat 7700K then… and this also do apply to Skylake-X that will be shown this year. Odd kid on the block will be Kabylake-X with 4cores but I do suspect that this will be high clocked part against R5 (probably 4.5-5GHz).
Just my 2 cents about this whole “Ryzen is not as fast as my 4/6 core CPU”…
“PC is not all about gaming You do realize that right?”
This is PC gaming site. You do realise that, right?
And people hype it cause of its gaming capabilities. I don’t see Photoshop and Sony Vegas users hyping it.
Because Vegas and Photoshop users are busy… making money while gaming users go on net and vent about this.
Depending on your typing speed it takes roughly 30 seconds to make a post about this.
I do and that’s my point. Streets are not only for cars but also for motorcycles.
“slow as dirt” “PoS” this guy just lost all his internet credibility
The benchmarks that Joker Productions put up recently between the i7 7700K against the 6800K, had the 7700K winning in most games. The 1700X is $400, while a 7700K can be had for $300-330 depending where you buy it. I knew people shouldn’t get hyped until real world gaming benchmarks come out.
For strictly gaming, I have a hard time recommending an 8 core processor. The extra performance just isn’t there, while the cost certainly is.
Good point.
i f’ing knew it!
all hype and no delivery
typical AMD, relies on fanboys and marketing instead of actual performance
team jew for the win
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Back up people, back up. We gotta fangirl in our midst. It’s (s)trolled out of its natural habitat (wccftech) and wandered into our den. Don’t give it attention, or eye contact, as its movement is mainly based on its own self-importance, and personal identification with inanimate objects. Ignore it, and she’ll soon scurry away.
From a gaming perspective, I’m quite disappointed. It’s still a great CPU and thank God that AMD are finally offering competition to Intel, but there’s a sense in which I can’t help but feel that after all the hype, that we deserved more than AMD simply competing at similar pricing. No doubt Intel will counter and slash prices too.
So, all the talk of the second coming, and i5 beating cpu’s with 6 cores for $200 has turned out to be just fanboy fantasies, and what we’re left with is a great improvement overall from an AMD perspective, but hardly earth shattering progress in the CPU landscape.
I’m hoping the 6 core Ryzen does a little better than this for gaming, its rated at 95W so it may have higher clocks/single core performance
Being competitive was all anybody in the real world could have hoped for. AMD did it. We now have an alternative and Intel has a reason to actually improve performance more than this 5% per generation milk squirt garbage we’ve been getting. Also, prices.
I don’t believe that any reasonable person was expecting “earth shattering progress in the CPU landscape” from Ryzen. Most people were simply hoping for AMD to become a serious contender once more and, from what we’re seeing thus far, they appear to have achieved that.
hahahaha!!!! Intel is better
“Keep in mind of course that AMD’s Ryzen 7 1700X will be priced at $399
while Intel’s Core i7 6800K is currently priced at $420”
Also keep in mind that an i7 6700K or 7700K typically deliver higher frame-rates than the 6800K in most games and both are priced much lower than R7 1700X and i7 6800K.
“Not only that but Ryzen 7 1700X comes with 8 cores (Intel Core i7 6800K features 6
cores)”
Only in heavily multi-threaded games, which are still the minority of games, will you get a meaningful advantage when using R7 1700X or i7 6800K over i7 6700K/7700K
“features a lower TDP and higher clock speeds”
Keep in mind that i7 6800K overclocks reasonably well whereas we don’t yet know how well Ryzen overclocks but rumours have suggested it’s a mere 5-10%. Binned i7 7700K overclocks to an impressive 5.1GHz, as sold by custom PC builders such as OverclockersUK.
Mine was a joke too.
doubtfully considering the text you wrote
wccftech is literally the worst site that ever existed on the internet
not even as a joke.
Comedy is subjective, remember that.