SYSmark, WebXPRT, 7-Zip

Testing Configuration

  • 7-zip Compression
  • Audacity MP3 Encode
  • Blender
  • Cinebench R15
  • Euler 3D
  • Geekbench
  • Handbrake
  • POV-Ray
  • SiSoft Sandra
  • SYSmark 2014 SE
  • WebXPRT
  • X264 Encode

The full testbed configuration is listed below:

Test System Setup
CPU

AMD Ryzen 3 1200
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
AMD Ryzen 5 1400
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
AMD Ryzen 7 1700
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Intel Core i7-7700K
Intel Core i3-8100
Intel Core i3-8350K
Intel Core i7-8400
Intel Core i7-8600K
Intel Core i7-8700K

Motherboard ASUS Crosshair VII Hero (Zen+) – Pre-launch BIOS 
Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (Coffee Lake) – BIOS F5m
ASUS Crosshair VI Hero (Zen) – BIOS 6001
ASUS Maximus IX Code (Kaby Lake) – BIOS 1203
Memory

16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3200

Operating at:

2400MHz (Kaby Lake)
2667MHz (Zen, Coffee Lake)
2933 (Zen+, Raven Ridge)
Storage Corsair Neutron XTi 480 SSD
Sound Card On-board
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti 11GB
Graphics Drivers NVIDIA 390.77
Power Supply Corsair RM1000x
Operating System Windows 10 Pro x64 RS3, fully updated as of 4/1/2017

In regards to potential issues around the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities and their associated patches, all test systems were running Windows 10 Pro RS3, fully patched as of April 1, 2017. In addition, all motherboards were using the latest UEFI firmware (exact versions listed above).

SYSmark 2014 SE

SYSmark® 2014 SE (Second Edition) is an application-based benchmark that reflects usage patterns of business users in the areas of Office Productivity, Data/Financial Analysis and Media Creation. Joining these in SYSmark 2014 SE is a new Responsiveness scenario which models ‘pain points’ in the user experience when performing common activities. SYSmark 2014 SE features the most popular applications from each of their respective fields.

SYSmark shows a bit of a mixed bag for AMD's new Ryzen 2000 series CPUs. The Ryzen 7 2700X falls short to the Intel Core i7-8700K by almost 15%. However, the Ryzen 5 2600X and the Core i5-8600K are remarkably well matched, coming in neck-and-neck in the SYSmark Overall score.

Generationally, the Ryzen 7 2700X provides about an 8% improvement over the previous highest-end AM4 part, the R7 1800X. This shows strong growth for AMD's new Zen+ CPUs over their flagship processors from just a year ago.

WebXPRT

 

WebXPRT 2015 uses scenarios created to mirror the tasks you do every day to compare the performance of almost any Web-enabled device. It contains six HTML5- and JavaScript-based workloads: Photo Enhancement, Organize Album, Stock Option Pricing, Local Notes, Sales Graphs, and Explore DNA Sequencing.

It runs these four tests seven times each:

  • Photo Enhancement: Measures the time to apply three effects (Sharpen, Emboss, and Glow) to two photos each, a set of six photos total.
  • Organize Album: Measures the time it takes to check for human faces in a set of five photos.
  • Stocks Option Pricing: Measures the time to calculate financial indicators of a stock based on historical data and display the result in a dashboard.
  • Local Notes: Measures the time to store notes securely in the browser's local storage and display recent entries.
  • Sales Graphs: Measures the time to calculate and display multiple views of sales data.
  • Explore DNA Sequencing: Measures the time it takes to filter eight DNA sequences for specific characteristics.

Each test uses different combinations of HTML5 Canvas 2D and Javascript, common elements in many Web pages, to gauge how well your device and browser work together in everyday Web browsing situations.

WebXPRT shows a trend similar to SYSMark's results. While the i7-8700K outclasses the R7 2700X by the tune of around 15%, the R5 2600X actually manages to best the i5-8600K by 5%.

7-Zip Compression

While the i7-8770K manages to outperform the Ryzen 7 2700X by an order of 5-10% throughout the 7-Zip testing, the Ryzen 5 2600X maintains a huge advantage over the i5-8600K.

The additional cores and threads available with the Ryzen 5 part mean up to a 15% increase at the highest 7-Zip simultatenous thread counts.

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