Ryzen Release Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3290-...ency-curve

As stated in our review, the Ryzen 2 processors primarily shine in lower voltage requirements at a given frequency, which is doubly illustrated here, against the 1700. Both CPUs do have somewhat non-linear, pseudo-exponential curves as frequency increases. This also happens with Intel, mind you, but that’s well-documented. The Ryzen CPUs are still relatively new. Without BCLK and other tuning, we hit a wall at 4.2GHz and can’t push voltage high enough to stabilize >4.2GHz (multiplier only). We could with exotic cooling, probably, but temperature begins to dictate boosting functionality -- just like modern GPUs.

The more interesting point is that our 2700X can hold its base frequency of 3.7GHz on all cores at 1.0v, while our 1700 needs at least 1.1625V for the same clock speed.