RYZEN 7 1800X
http://www.amd.com £500
With Ryzen it looks like AMD is finally back with its A game. The plucky processor manufacturing
underdog has brought to the table a 14nm eight-core, 16-thread rendering powerhouse at an astonishing
price, but is it the right fit for you?The 1800X is nothing short of incredible value. If
your main hobby is video editing, or game
streaming from a single system, this thing is a
dream. The Intel equivalent, the Core i7-6900K,
would set you back almost £950 in comparison.
Generally speaking, it’s a high-end-desktop part,
priced at an almost mainstream level. Its single core
performance, although lacking in contrast to Intel’s
Core i7-7700K, is still at the same level as
Haswell’s Core i7-4790K, and at an almost
identical level to Intel’s current generation
of Broadwell-E parts too.The big doozy, however, is game performance.
At 1440p or higher Ryzen’s 7 series shines with
most titles, matching Intel within 1-2fps on average,
(39 vs 41fps in To t a l Wa r : At t i l a, and 75 vs 77 in Far
Cry Primal). But at 1080p things do get a bit ropey,
with reports of frame rates dropping by 10-15fps.
That said, if you want to get into video editing/game
streaming the R7 1800X is the perfect choice.BASE/TURBO CLOCK: 3.7GHZ / 4.0GHZ / CORES/THREADS: 8/16 /
LITHOGRAPHY: 14NM / CACHE: 20MB / MEMORY SUPPORT: 64GB DDR4
@ 2666MHZ / MAX PCIE LANES: 20CPU93 %
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RYZEN 5
Expect to see Ryzen
5 drop later this year,
with better single core,
a stunning price,
and hopefully solid
1080p performance.2
SUPPORT
Ryzen has support
for up to 20 PCIe lanes- 16 dedicated to the
GPUs, and four isolated
for PCIe SSDs.
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TEMPERATURE
Temperatures are
a mixed bag, with the top
end chip and a decent
AIO cooler idling at
50-60 degrees, yet only
reaching 70-75 degrees
under heavy load.4
OVERCLOCKING
Overclocking also
seems nonexistent, but
we’ve seen overclocks
up at 4.1GHz, which gives
Intel’s Core i7-6950X a
run for its money.Hardware
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