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Ryzen 7 1700X

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8 Cores, 16 Threads @3.4GHz, Zen.
Release date: Q1 2017.

Average Bench: 71% (358th of 1420)

Based on 66,470 user benchmarks.  Device: 178BFBFF00800F11 Models: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor, AMD Ryzen: ZD3406BAM88F4_38/34_Y

The AMD Ryzen 7 1700X isn't due for release until next week but two of our users have already submitted benchmarks. Comparing the quad and single core scores from our samples shows a relative 4.3% boost on the single core score so it’s possible that turbo wasn’t fully engaged (12% turbo boost expected). These preliminary results are seriously impressive as they put Zen’s IPC between 0% and 9% below Intel’s Kaby Lake. Even in the worst case scenario these results are still impressive. Comparing Intel’s $1,000 6900K and the 1700X shows that AMD delivers comparable performance for half the price! A shake-up of the CPU market will unfold as Zen rolls out. If Ryzen CPUs can overclock to 4.6+ GHz they will likely dominate the entire market putting a very welcome end to the monotonous tick-tock of recent years. [Feb '17 CPUPro]

Poor: 58%Average: 71% Great: 80%
Gaming
Gaming 71%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 72%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 69%
Battle cruiser

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Good average bench

The AMD Ryzen 7 1700X averaged 28.9% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Memory Latency 70.1Pts
Avg. Quad Core Speed 386Pts

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X is 22.2%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Octa Core Speed 674Pts
Avg. Multi Core Speed 1,032Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 66,470 samples)
Rank 35871%
Min Avg Max
61.4 Memory 70.1 79.7
73 1-Core 103 116
139 2-Core 202 226
69.7% 125 Pts
Min Avg Max
271 4-Core 386 444
497 8-Core 674 813
64.1% 530 Pts
Min Avg Max
725 64-Core 1,032 1,183
63.9% 1,032 Pts
User Benchmarks Bench Normal Heavy Server
The fastest CPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads
Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg)
76% Very good
Memory 68.9
1-Core 116
2-Core 223
74% 136 Pts
4-Core 446
8-Core 761
73% 603 Pts
64-Core 1160
72% 1160 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads
Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg)
75.4% Very good
Memory 78
1-Core 106
2-Core 213
74% 133 Pts
4-Core 392
8-Core 670
64% 531 Pts
64-Core 1062
66% 1062 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads
Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg)
75.1% Very good
Memory 71.3
1-Core 104
2-Core 216
72% 131 Pts
4-Core 424
8-Core 714
69% 569 Pts
64-Core 1,101
68% 1,101 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads
Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg)
74.9% Very good
Memory 70.4
1-Core 108
2-Core 214
72% 131 Pts
4-Core 426
8-Core 727
70% 576 Pts
64-Core 1,130
70% 1,130 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads
Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg)
71.7% Very good
Memory 70.5
1-Core 106
2-Core 207
71% 128 Pts
4-Core 392
8-Core 699
66% 546 Pts
64-Core 976
60% 976 Pts
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 64,576,503 CPUs tested.

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MSRP ≈ $400 @ launch in Mar '17
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Gaming
Gaming 76%
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Desktop
Desktop 77%
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Workstation
Workstation 75%
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Motherboard: Asus PRIME X370-PRO - $109

CPU
Ryzen 7 1700XAMD  $246Bench 71%, 66,470 samples303x
GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia  $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples198x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $119Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples181x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $140Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples176x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $85Bench 103%, 951,591 samples88x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples82x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung  $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples70x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples153x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples112x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $40Bench 84%, 287,720 samples55x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 65% - Good Total price: $884

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 Comments

CPUPro
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2,057

Official site www.amd.com/...

Multiple architectural advances combined with platform and processing technologies...

Added 6 years ago.
USA-User
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9,522

Liked (edit your comment) Add link

3 months ago.

Comment 

edged out over the 4590 turboing to 3.5ghz in floating point math by 3%. IPC is rock solid, and their version of SMT rivals intel's hyper-threading. The real battle between AMD and Intel is going to take place on the front of core count, pricing, clock speeds, and if the Athlon x2 days are any indication, perhaps even some corporate sabotage.—Feb '17

Comment 

Great value for the price, 8 cores are vey useful in a workstation and for the price this is amazing—Apr '17

GBR-User
Avatar level
5,616

Excellent

13 months ago.

Normal people dont post comments or "reviews", why would they? Only company plebs trying to sell sh** do that. Took me a few stings to figure it out. Gotta give the AMD "fanboys" 10/10 for hard work, they are all over it - HOOYA

HKG-User
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5,372

Poor

3 years ago.

amd cpu pay money less than intel cpu and same calculate power.

RUS-User
Avatar level
4,652

Excellent

1 month ago.

Comment 

Brave new world with Ryzen..—Feb '17

POL-User
Avatar level
4,420

Terrible

9 months ago.

Still decent performance as of February 2020. It's okay for games, although newer AMD and Intel CPU's are much greater. 8 cores are nice to have, I guess you could spit them into 4 VM's to host smaller game servers, or host 1-2 bigger game servers (such as Minecraft).

ESP-User
Avatar level
3,635

Terrible

3 years ago.

amazing price to perfomance ratio

GRC-User
Avatar level
3,073

Good

8 months ago.

Preordered this baby..cant wait to double the performance of my FX while halving the power consumption since its overclocked...

ZAF-User
Avatar level
2,708

Excellent

4 years ago.

Owning one myself and just knowing the power I have under the hood is Amazing!!! Recent updates to the bios really helped performance.

BEL-User
Avatar level
2,460

Excellent

4 years ago.

cost more than his Intel's equivalent (i7), and his not even close to the i7 specs...

LTU-User
Avatar level
2,228

Excellent

4 years ago.

Cheap, more powerful than Intel core i5

NOR-User
Avatar level
2,224

Excellent

2 years ago.

good value for non-overclockers and content creators

CPUPro
Avatar level
2,057

Good

6 years ago.

DOM-User
Avatar level
1,462

Excellent

4 years ago.

Comment 

Thanks for this AMD, we needed a liberator from Intel's monopoly—Mar '17

CosminD83
Avatar level
198

Average

4 years ago.

Can't beat 3 year old Intel in games. Period.

yaabalfazl
Avatar level
92

Poor

6 years ago.

low single core

koopahermit
Avatar level
42

Excellent

5 years ago.

Got it for $185 on sale off Amazon with the rebate. Absolute steal for this kind of performance!

meLoxXx
Avatar level
22

Good

4 years ago.

Good performance vs budget

Orisose
Avatar level
20

Outstanding

6 years ago.

A monopoly-breaker, and the first of many. GG Intel

JaiJai
Avatar level
20

Excellent

2 years ago.

Review  www.amd.com/...

My 1080 sea hawk is bottlenecked even at stable overclock Way overrated for NAS systems.. except for thunderbolt limitation. Cat6 Cat7 maybe better 4k editing smooth, 5.9k editing surprisingly handled. Works best with fastest ram you can get and will push you ahead of even 2nd gen chips Best of ryzen 1st gen, great for gamers who need a work station even in 2020 as a budget build. 1600x same score except slight faster 4 core. the 8 cores makes rendering 20 minute 4k projects down to an hour with lots of graphics and transitions. I would reccomend 1st and 2nd gen for any budget built. Make sure to overclock as single core is the weak point

No1Spank
Avatar level
16

Terrible

6 years ago.

Poor quality silicone that doesn't overclock well, even crashes using XFR with a decent cooler. Cheaper R5 1600 beats it in some areas where this should excel (at least when I benched it). Gaming performance worst than 1600 due to lower OC capability. Elderly i5 4670K is superior for gaming.

HanaLover
Avatar level
10

Excellent

6 years ago.

I Love The New AMD CPUs

Trolly
Avatar level
6

Excellent

6 years ago.

gg intel prepare yourselves company and fanboys alike for the red storm.

WildFox395
Avatar level
6

Excellent

4 years ago.

Amazing CPU. Got on sale for $130, and the performance is unspeakable. In cinebench, it rips up the applications with ease. For such a good value, you really can't go wrong, especially if AMD keeps supporting the AM4 socket in the future. Competition!

dCYBERb
Avatar level
6

Excellent

4 years ago.

This CPU is a processing beast. Base clock is 3.5Ghz but I easily and comfortably overclocked mine to 4.0Ghz with only 1.375V and a better than average air cooler. Very stable workhorse at that speed and the benefits were substantial.

Robin
Avatar level
4

Outstanding

6 years ago.

very good performance for the money

Saturnus
Avatar level
4

Outstanding

6 years ago.

Shocking the CPU world with this dominating 8-core, AMD is back at the top of the boards.

The_Devin_G
Avatar level
4

Excellent

5 years ago.

It's a beast. First gen, but doesn't have any issues at all. Expect to be using it for the next 5 years easily.

Newsky
Avatar level
4

Excellent

3 years ago.

1700X was the best option for me as it has dramatically improved sigle-thread performance (comparing to my previous CPU) that reduces the latency as well as exciting multi-thread performance I need in my everyday work. Since I do not want to mess with overclocking at home, XFR is a good option that is worth paying a bit more. Again, it helps to reduce latency and to speed up system reaction (provided that you have a good NVME SSD). Now there are some better options like 2700X or even 3400G (3700X is a way another CPU, just its name has these "700X"), but it is still a way affordable than intel solutions and unlike them has a possibility for later upgrades.

Masajd
Avatar level
2

Excellent

6 years ago.

RIGHT so this average benchmark is NOT correct. The people that are getting the 80 percents have not installed the bios updates that allow the chip to go to 3.8 not 3.4 GHz (or are just very unlucky) . At 3.8 this chip will quite easily get 95 to 98 percent and will happily beat my mates overclocked i7-6700k at 4.6 GHz on 3D mark.

Collins773
Avatar level
2

Excellent

6 years ago.

1700x is an overclock beast with the Taichi

Prestley
Avatar level
2

Excellent

5 years ago.

I multi-task with more than 7 different cpu-demanding programs open across three monitors, and the 1700x doesn't even break a sweat.

iEnemY
Avatar level
2

Excellent

5 years ago.

This is CPU of new era of AMD with amazing perfomance.

Chesdragon
Avatar level
2

Good

5 years ago.

1/4 the price for comparable performance.

DanDeerso
Avatar level
2

Excellent

4 years ago.

Best bang for the buck I've gotten.

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