Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “AMD Ryzen 7 1800X – Faster Than $1000 Intel CPU?”.
Hey, what’s up folks how’s it going! This is waj hope you guys are all doing well. So, for the past couple of days i’ve been testing out the ryzen 7 1800x. Eight core 16 thread cpu from amd. Now this is part of the whole new ryzen 7 lineup of processors, including the 17 1700x. We’Re gon na have follow-up videos for those specific cpus, but here we’re going to take a look at the 1800x specifically and see how the performance results compare against an intel. Processor, with 8 cores and 16 threads, the only big difference is: is the price point: the ryzen 7 1800x retails for about 500 versus intel’s 6900k processor, which has similar specifications uh retails for over one thousand dollars, so we’re going to run through the core specification differences As well as the benchmark performance results to really see if the 1800x could come close or even surpass what the 6900k can do so without any further ado, let’s get right into it now, just to give you guys a quick rundown of the ryzen 7 1800x. It’S part of the zen family of processors and currently right now you have this 1800x, as well as the 1700x and 1700 processors available right now. All three of these chips are eight core cpus, with 16 threads enabled in the operating system. The key distinction from the 1800 x compared to the 1700 series is that it has a higher thermal capacity and therefore could be clocked a little bit higher from the factory. So 3.6 is the base clock and it can turbo up to 4 gigahertz and with the xfr system, if you have better cooling enabled it can even go beyond the 4 gigahertz mark. Now, importantly, all ryzen 7 cpus are going to be using a socket am4, so that means new chipsets new motherboards we’re going to be specifically using the gigabyte ax 370 gaming 5 board.
Now, based on my testing so far, there are two crucial aspects that you need to make sure that you have taken care of when building any 1800x system number one is cooling. Number two is having the enough bandwidth for your ddr4 memory. Now, in terms of the memory itself, i would recommend a minimum of 16 gigabytes running at least at 3 000 megahertz, with a voltage rating of 1.3 volts, anything below that you’re going to run into stability issues and your system won’t run properly now in terms of Cooler compatibility even though the am4 looks very similar to the am3 socket the actual mounting holes for your cpu retention plates are going to be different, so you are going to need updated brackets for the platform. As you can see, the cooler master liquid pro 280 that we’re using doesn’t actually fit properly, but i did manage uh to mount it to two of the holes. So we do have a secure fit for this temporary testing phase.
Eventually, cooler, master and other popular manufacturers will definitely upgrade their brackets, so you could fit them onto the am4 platform. Now cooling. The 1800x is really darn, important and you’re going to want to make sure that you have the best cooler that you can possibly get even with my cooler master liquid pro 280, which is a fairly high-end all-in-one.
Liquid cooling solution at idle temperatures was still around 35 to 40 degrees celsius and when you start uh loading up the cpu from 4 gigahertz to our specific overclock setting, which is 4.1 gigahertz. After about 35 minutes on prime 95, it got fairly hot about 83 degrees celsius compared to the 6900k 78 degrees celsius, which was overclocked to 4.3 gigahertz. Now before we get into any specifics, here’s just the specification breakdown between the 1800x and the 6900k chip from intel.
Both as you can see in terms of lengthography are based off of a 14 nanometer architecture and their tdp is quite different. 95 watts on the 1800x versus 140 watts on the 6900k uh same cores and threads a different uh kind of clock speeds, but in the same vicinity, generally speaking, the stock frequency is higher on the 1800x. As you can see, in terms of cash, there is a difference: 16 megabytes versus 20 megabytes and in terms of maximum pci, express lanes available to the processor you’re, looking at 24 on the amd side and 40 on the intel side and obviously there’s a big price Difference 499 or roughly speaking for the 1800x and the 6900k generally retails for over the thousand dollar mark all right.
So i wanted to give you guys a little bit of a comparison between the processors, both at their overclock setting and their stock frequency settings. In terms of the overclock, the 6900k, we managed a fairly stable overclocked about 4.3 gigahertz, with the voltage set to 1.35 volts. We had an awesome copy of our intel chip over here. On the 1800x, we managed to get a 4.1 gigahertz overclock, with the voltage set to one point at four to five, a volts. I didn’t want to push the voltage a little bit further in order to get a stable, 4.2 gigahertz overclock, because we got diminishing returns when it comes to cooling. Some people may have better copies and could achieve 4.2 4.3 at similar voltage settings.
But we’re going to stick with 4.1 uh, based on our configuration right now now. The first thing that we’re going to do is take a look at the load power consumption specifically when it comes to 100 cpu load on both a platform check out the description down below for more detailed information about the intel and amd rigs. But both have the same gpu ssd power supply and ram configuration.
The only real difference is the motherboard and the processor itself. So, as you can see at stock configuration, the 1800x is very power efficient, only consuming about 168 watts versus 218 watts on the 6900k side versus when we overclock the 1800x. It goes above 200 watts and you’re looking at about 238 watts running with the 6900k.
So not a huge power consumption difference, but, generally speaking, the intel is consuming more power. Now the performance results that everyone wants to see is the cinebench, and here it is right over here at stock frequency settings. Both chips are actually scoring uh pretty much. In the same vicinity around that 1600 point mark so uh that’s kind of interesting to see over there, but when you start to overclock the 1800x based on a four point, one gigahertz overclock, my best score was around uh 1787 versus the 6900, based on the 4.3 Gigahertz overclock logically scored a little bit higher at around 1802, so generally they’re actually quite similar, even though we do have higher frequencies on the 6900k.
But at this price point the 1800x could definitely stand tall next to the intel giant over here. So definitely interesting results. Now running through the passmark cpu test, specifically again, we can see the results kind of mirrored over here when it comes to the stock frequencies, both a score around 16 000 points. But when we overclock the 1800x scores around 17 000 points versus 18 000 points.
Just under 20 000 points with the 6900k now moving forward, isolating the single core and multi-core performance further with geekbench 4. You can see that the 6900k and we’re looking at the overclock settings specifically over here is getting a faster single and multi-core performance based on this test over here. But let’s actually move on and take a look at some real world performance examples of specific render time. So this is going to be a fundamental for any you people that do any kind of multimedia work.
The first thing that we’re going to do is convert a 4k 38 second video file down to 1080p for a web distribution. It took about 48 seconds on the 1800x versus 41 seconds on the 6900k, both at their overclock settings and uh when it comes to the adobe suite after effects a 45 second 4k project rendered around one minute 29 seconds versus one minute 14 seconds on the intel Side, so the intel is faster in this example when it comes to after effects, rendering uh same thing goes for premiere pro a three minute: 4k video project uh took around two minutes eight seconds to render out on the 1800x, which is fairly fast, but it took Around one minute, 51 seconds on the 6900k, so you can see the intel is edging up the 1800x based on our overclocking settings over here now. The last thing we’re going to talk about is the gaming performance and since uh, both of these chips are fairly similar. In terms of their general computing experience, you’re not going to see really any difference over here and that’s pretty much mirrored from our gaming benchmark results we’re using the gtx 1080 for all of our tests, and you can see 3d mark time spy pretty much. The same results when it comes to the general performance and rise of the tomb raider uh using our gtx 1080. We got a slightly higher performance results on our intel platform, but nothing crazy significant.
But besides that guys, that’s really it, as you can see from the performance results. Uh gaming, wise, there’s, not really a major difference between the two they’re pretty much identical, especially because most games don’t really utilize. Eight cores in the first place, letter alone, 16 threads and the single core performance is pretty comparable to both processors. Obviously, in some performance results the 6900k, when overclocked to about 4.3 gigahertz, is certainly faster than what we could achieve with our version of the 1800x clocked around 4.1 gigahertz. Now, if you have a better version of this cpu or a better cooling, you can certainly push the overclock a lot further and get a more comparable results. But generally speaking, most people are going to probably have an edge up with an overclocked version of the 6900k compared to the 1800x.
At this point of the game, but beyond those factors, the 1800 x from a valley perspective is absolutely blowing everything out of the water. There’S really nothing like it in its price range and it’s going to be really interesting to see how people are going to respond to building these high performance. Eight core cpus, with 16 threads at a fairly affordable price range, especially with these new amd chips, but really on that guys. That’S really it we’re definitely going to have some build guides coming up and also a check out the description down below for more detailed information about everything we talked about, but other than that. Thank you so much for watching. Thanks for your support and we’ll see, you later take care.
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