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AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Benchmark Review Leaked: Much Faster Than 1700X

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According to leaked information from Amazon this week, we're five weeks away from AMD's launch of its Ryzen 2nd Generation CPUs, but today we also got a full set of benchmarks uploaded to popular benchmarking website SiSoftware. Discovered by Videocardz, the benchmark results point at significant raw performance increases in everything from image processing to bandwidth and marks drops in latency, which is a good thing.

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The latency figures appear to show that AMD isn't lying when it claims this side of things has improved. It's perhaps not as sexy as raw performance or gaming prowess but it shows AMD has been working hard to improve Ryzen as a CPU and platform. For example, the Core Complex (CCX) or inter-core latency has fallen from 136ns to 128ns moving from the Ryzen 7 1700X with overall latency lower than the Intel Core i7-6700K, admittedly a two-generation old CPU. Bandwidth, though, is massively improved, with the L2 bandwidth rising from 556GB/sec to 736GB/sec.

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The image processing test mimics an image editing program so is a good indication of both lightly-threaded and multi-threaded performance. As you'd expect the Ryzen 7 2700X is much faster than its predecessor the Ryzen 7 1700X, outstripping it by between 5-15% in the individual tasks. The Intel Core i7-6700K is a fairly old CPU but Intel has been particularly strong here even against Ryzen CPUs with additional cores - it comes down to lightly threaded grunt and application optimization, which still lean in Intel's favor. However, we shouldn't ignore the performance increase over the Ryzen 7 1700x - it's significant across the board.

You can see the entire results desk here and take a look at the results pages for the Ryzen 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600. I should add that we're not sure of the various test system specifications but the clock speeds appear to tally with what we already know. They also seem to match the 4.35GHz maximum boost frequency for the Ryzen 7 1700X, with recorded frequencies reaching 4.34GHz during benchmarking. I'll be covering all the latest AMD news so be sure follow me here on Forbes or on social media using the links below.

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