09-13-2017, 01:20 AM
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/25...-october-5
Quote:The fastest Ryzen 5 1600X is 5038 / 24751; the fastest result logged in Windows is 4862 / 22850. Geekbench’s results, however, should be taken with a grain of salt. I don’t normally use the test because I’ve never been enamored with it on desktops (and its mobile versions have also come in for their fair share of criticism). Geekbench scores also float a great deal, making it difficult to use the database to find a representative score for comparison. Collectively, these figures suggest that Coffee Lake will be a straightforward upgrade for Intel and its Core i7 family. Two more cores, slightly lower base clocks, and somewhat lower full-core turbo modes make for a potent multi-threaded boost, but limited single-threaded gains.
We’ll have to wait and see how competitive positioning shakes out, but AMD seems likely to keep its strong multi-threaded positioning. Intel’s single-threaded performance has been better than AMD’s from day one; the Core i7-7700K is still the fastest single-threaded CPU you can buy today. That hasn’t kept AMD from significantly improving its overall revenue so far this year, and a comparatively small boost to 12 threads at the top of Intel’s stack won’t change the Ryzen 5 1600X’s strong position around the $250 price point. If Intel wants to dethrone that core, it’ll need to cut the price on the i7-8700K by about $100, and that’s unlikely to happen.