Site compares AMD Ryzen benchmark scores to Core i7-7700K – update

On Chinese forums, the Cinebench R15 and Fritz Chess benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen octacore that the company recently unveiled have appeared. The results – which are under discussion – are higher than those of the also yet to be released Core i7-7700K quadcore, but lower than a 6900K octacore.

The Ryzen results from the Chinese forums have been compiled by Wccftech and placed alongside those of the Kaby Lake generation’s Intel Core i7-7700K. The site does not link to the source, making it impossible to determine how reliable the results are.

Compared to the Core i7-7700K quadcore at standard clock speed, the Ryzen octacore delivers better results, which is to be expected given the double number of cores. However, with an overclock to 5GHz, the Intel CPU would perform better at the Fritz benchmark. A Core i7-6900K and 6950X with eight and ten cores respectively outperformed all tests.

With Cinebench R15, Intel processors always deliver good results relative to real-life benchmarks. The multicore test has been run at the Chinese forums. Fritz Chess is a program where the benchmark consists of playing a fictitious game of chess and calculating the moves can be used to get an indication of the parallel computing power.

AMD unveiled an eight-core, sixteen-threaded Ryzen processor that runs at 3.4GHz in early December. There is a total of 20MB of L2 and L3 cache on the processor that should be plugged into an AM4 motherboard. It is one of the processors based on AMD’s new Zen architecture. AMD demonstrated that the Ryzen processor in Blender rendering software is as fast as an Intel Core i7-6900K octacore. The processor will be released in the first quarter of 2017. Intel is likely to announce its Kaby Lake generation of desktop processors in early January 2017.

Update, 13.50: As reported by several users, there are reports that Wccftech has the results from a Baidu forum where they have since been removed as falsified results. The results would be those of a Xeon E5-2660, whose ID has been modified to resemble an AMD chip.