AMD Ryzen I am getting it!!!!

[Powpow]

Those things happen all the time. Nothing new.

[Powpow]

Well, seeing the 1700X for $399 on Amazon now while the 7700K is going for $348. Break down is though that if your mostly gaming then the 7700K is better right now because most PC games right now were optimized for intel chips and also it overclocks much better. But if you need the extra cores for gaming while streaming and other multitasking tasks, then Ryzen is the choice as they will iron out the issues it has now overtime:

Video showing a fair comparison of 1700X vs 7700K in games:

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Something looks curious here. I will have to do deep research and get back.

Why is CPU utilization so low?

Even GPU utilization is less than 90+% when the CPU is not bottle-necked.

Are games not prioritized by the OS?


Another point that first comes to mind is that more cores does not necessarily mean more performance. It depends on the implementation. In layman's terms, having a job to be done by 4 people may not necessarily be done faster if a hundred people are trying to do the same job. This is something I would have to research on how the OS handles a multi threaded app. Optimization could be needed on the software side.

Is it possible for additional features to kill an app if the app is not aware of the features? Especially if the features, multi-thread support, are not done efficiently?

At the CPU utilization, less than 50%, it may be possible to run background tasks and still play a game with the same bench results.

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Bios update???

CPU driver update??? Win 10? Win 8?

App implementation update??? AMD said that they will be working with developers.

[Powpow]

Bios update???

CPU driver update??? Win 10? Win 8?

App implementation update??? AMD said that they will be working with developers.

These are things they should have done before release though. But I guess they had a deadline as with most companies these days since 2014/15 .

[pezz]

Fair comparison of what? You game in 720p?

[BNOVA]

I think this is a more balance look at what AMD is doing with this new CPU. I think we can ignore the issue with gaming benchmarks. Once drivers come out to improve the scheduler in windows things will be much better all around.

[pezz]

I think this is a more balance look at what AMD is doing with this new CPU. I think we can ignore the issue with gaming benchmarks. Once drivers come out to improve the scheduler in windows things will be much better all around.

I do not think there is any issue. AMD marketed this as a mainstream workstation CPU and they delivered just that.

[BNOVA]

I think there is an issue just that it is very small and expected with a new processor much less a new architecture. Nothing that should prevent someone from buying it. By the time BIOS and micro code is upgraded we will be even more impressed by Ryzen.

AMD has always been engineers at heart and this platform is set improve with age just like their GPUs. The AM4 platform is good for the next 4 years and all processors released in the future should work with motherboards released today.