AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Review - Review 2022

To say that AMD's starting time-generation Ryzen family of desktop processors gave Intel'southward CPU division a xx,000-volt wakeup call would exist the understatement of 2022. Now it's 2022, and AMD isn't content to merely poke its rival and run. With the Ryzen 7 2700X ($329), the Santa Clara chipmaker is fix for real mano-a-mano fisticuffs with no gloves and no ref. This 8-core/16-thread chip builds on the success of the Ryzen 7 1800X and is a superb purchase for budget-minded horsepower, and it's better situated in a more mature board-and-chipset ecosystem, to boot. Casual power users will find it hard to top this CPU in terms of value.

The Art of Zen

The AMD Ryzen vii 2700X processor I'm testing features a 3.7GHz base clock, a 4.3GHz maximum heave clock, and a 105-watt TDP. When yous buy this processor in a retail packet, you'll too get AMD's Wraith Prism CPU cooler, which features a copper cadre, direct-contact heatpipes, a quiet high-velocity fan, and customizable RGB LEDs. It's a very overnice stock cooler, far more elegant than the usual Intel stock fare.

There's no on-die graphics under this processor'due south heat spreader, so those looking to upgrade to this chip must plan on getting a discrete graphics card, as well. Overclockers volition also be relieved to learn that the Ryzen 7 2700X all the same has a soldered-on heat spreader that'due south capable of shuttling rut away from the chip faster and more efficiently than the thermal interface material (TIM) between the die and heat spreader of Intel's flagship Cadre i7 processors. (Nobody de-lids AMD's Ryzen processors.) Speaking of the Cadre i7-8700K, AMD is offering two more cores and four more threads, for roughly $100 less than Intel'due south flagship. That's a adding hard to ignore.

There'south non a whole new compages to delve into with what AMD is calling the "Zen+," or "Peak Ridge," refresh, simply some tweaks hither and there to address the starting time-generation processor'southward principal weaknesses. Furthermore, the Ryzen seven 2700X is built on Global Foundry's new 12nm Leading Functioning (LP) FinFET manufacturing process, which is but a baby step forward compared to Zen's 14nm Low Power Plus (LPP) FinFET manufacturing process used in the Ryzen 7 1000-series chips. In improver to being designed specifically for existing 14nm architectures similar Zen, the new process offers, AMD claims, ten to 15 percent amend transistor functioning. AMD also made small design adjustments to decrease the DRAM latencies past as much as 16 percent for the L1 and L3 caches, and up to 34 per centum for the L2 enshroud. Overall, AMD estimates that there'southward a 3 percentage jump in instructions per clock (IPC) between Zen and Zen+.

A More Granular Boost

AMD's latest processors withal have SenseMI machine intelligence baked into the silicon, just the new Precision Boost ii now gives the Ryzen vii 2700X the ability to examine the electric current workload, factor in the cooling performance of the system, and punch those clock speeds college, to the tune of between 300MHz and 500MHz (in 25MHz steps at a time), depending on the task at hand. On the commencement-generation Ryzen processors, Precision Boost only really made a difference when ane or two cores were engaged. Even relatively lightweight workloads that used three cores or more than would forcefulness the clock speed of all cores to the slower "all cadre heave" country. With the 2000-series chips, Precision Heave two enables the clock speed to driblet off only gradually as more cores are engaged, upward to the full eight.

All things considered, AMD designed Precision Heave 2 to be relatively conservative. However, if you're running a premium CPU cooler, such every bit a closed-loop liquid cooler, the SenseMI algorithms can detect the improved thermal headroom. Extended Frequency Range ii (XFR two) is the clock-boosting feature that kicks into gear in these scenarios to deliver even higher frequencies under load. It also works across every core and thread that'south being pushed to the limit. AMD states that this characteristic alone can add together some other 7 percentage to the chip's functioning.

Fifty-fifty though the Ryzen vii 2700X processor (and all Zen+ Tiptop Ridge chips, for that matter) notwithstanding work in X370 motherboards, AMD also introduced a new feature to its X470 chipset and platform. I'm talking well-nigh AMD's StoreMI storage acceleration engineering science.

In short, the technology intelligently shuffles your about-used files to the fastest storage device in your arrangement. For the vast majority of enthusiasts who have a mixed storage environment comprising one or more fast SSDs and high-capacity hard drives, this feature gives you lot the all-time operation feel across everything you do with your PC.

Precision Boost Overdrive, At Your Own Risk?

Precision Boost Overdrive was a feature that was merely hinted at during the launch of the second-generation Ryzen 7 and 5 processors. Now that the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has been launched, however, AMD has seen fit to explicate this premium overclocking feature in greater detail. Robert Hallock, Senior Technical Marketing Manager at AMD, explains Precision Heave Overdrive in wide strokes in this video.

In brusk, the feature uses three parameters—temperature, power consumption from the CPU, and the VRM (your motherboard's ability to supply power to the CPU)—to decide the how loftier the core frequency tin climb earlier hitting one or more of these predefined limits. Traditional BIOS-based overclocking finer moves these goalposts to give the processor more room to boost. Precision Heave Overdrive does exactly the aforementioned matter, only it's fully automated. It requires a motherboard with a robust VRM, and it demands a better-than-stock CPU cooler, simply like traditional overclocking. And, aye, it voids your warranty, also just like traditional overclocking.

If that's not a master concern for you, then yous'll be happy to hear that enabling Precision Boost Overdrive can be washed either from within the BIOS of select X470 motherboards, or via a switch in AMD'south Ryzen Master overclocking utility, which you tin download here.

Once the utility was downloaded and installed, I launched AMD Ryzen Main, switched to Creator Mode, clicked Precision Boost Overdrive, and and so clicked Apply. When I enabled the feature, my Cinebench R15 score went from 175 (unmarried core) and 1,777 (multicore) to 179 and 1,807 respectively. The MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC motherboard has a Precision Boost Overdrive feature in the BIOS menu, and every bit of version 7B77v12, this warranty-voiding feature was, surprisingly, set to "Auto" past default.

Let's Go Testing...

Earlier diving into my tried-and-truthful overclocking endeavors, I first ran our stock tests how this processor performs at its default settings, in a number of enervating desktop applications.

For my exam setup, I installed the Ryzen 7 2700X into that MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC motherboard, and populated two of the DIMM slots with 16GB of dual-channel Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-3466 memory. For the boot drive, I relied on the 500GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SATA SSD installed into the topmost Grand.two slot on this motherboard. I installed the components into the Phanteks Enthoo Pro Tempered Glass Edition case, with a Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB closed-loop libation keeping my CPU temperatures in check. For the graphics carte du jour, an MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming 4G handled my display output.

To compare this processor'southward scores with other viable options currently on the market, I included in the chart scores for the half dozen-cadre/12-thread Intel Core i7-8700K mentioned earlier (the near direct Intel competition for this chip), as well equally half dozen-core six-thread Intel Cadre i5-8400, and the 8-cadre 16-thread Intel Core i7-7820X.

To represent the AMD side, I besides worked in the eight-core 16-thread AMD Ryzen vii 1800X, the six-core 12-thread Ryzen v 1600X, the 6-core 12-thread Ryzen v 2600X (I'm besides in the process of reviewing that scrap), and for kicks and perspective, the 16-core/32-thread Ryzen Threadripper 2950X.

Cinebench R15

Maxon's 64-scrap Cinebench R15 is a CPU-centric examination that lets me guess both the single-core and multicore functioning of the diverse processors I tested. The resulting scores are proprietary numbers that stand for the processor'southward performance while rendering a circuitous CPU-intensive image. This is considered a constructed benchmark.

With its higher core count, it's no surprise that the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X bested the Core i7-8700K. The impressive feat was the Ryzen'south besting of the Skylake Core i7-7820X processor from Intel's Core X Series, too. That said, the single-core performance is all the same not quite upward to par compared to Intel'south best performers.

iTunes 10.six Conversion Test

The iTunes x.vi Encoding Examination, as good an case as y'all'll find hither of "legacy software," is laughably single-threaded, which means that more than cores don't do AMD's bit whatever favors. This test is designed to illustrate the operation yous might expect when running software yous just can't quit, but that doesn't scale well.

Although the Ryzen 7 2700X'southward higher clock speed helps it beat the first-gen Ryzen processors, Intel'due south processors have a distinct, though narrow, advantage.

Handbrake 0.9.9

Handbrake is a classic, and popular workstation utility that is used to convert video files between formats. Typically, the more threads and cores your processor has, the better it will perform in this awarding. I loaded up a 12-infinitesimal 4K video clip titled Tears Of Steel and used the software to convert it into a 1080p MPEG-4 video.

In this real-globe test, the Ryzen seven 2700X performed exceptionally well, lagging behind but ane processor priced significantly higher, the mighty Threadripper 2950X, and substantially tying the pricier Cadre i7-7820X. If you exercise a lot of video editing, using applications that calibration well beyond multiple cores and threads, the Ryzen 7 2700X is a solid competitor.

POV-Ray 3.vii

This benchmark is another one that's more often than not considered synthetic; however, the highly threaded nature of the utility is getting to be more and more than representative of the applications bachelor today. I ran POV-Ray using both the multi-threaded "All CPUs" setting and the hamstrung "One CPU" setting. The criterion tasks the processor with rendering a complex photograph-realistic image using ray tracing.

Only the 16-core Threadripper beat the Ryzen 7 2700X when the processor was fully unleashed. When limited to a single core, yet, AMD'south processor performs well but lags behind the more than expensive Intel Coffee Lake and Skylake fries. It's interesting to note that the Intel Cadre i5-8400 is significantly slower, due to that scrap's lower clock speed and lack of back up for Hyper-Threading.

Blender 2.77a

Another of the real-world benchmarks used here is Blender, a popular open up-source 3D rendering application that people far more creative and talented than I use to craft 3D visual effects, animations, and models. Our exam file consists of a cartoonish flying-squirrel render that takes less than a minute to complete with most modern processors.

Blender was 1 of the beginning-gen Ryzen's weakest benchmarks, and here, it'south clear that the new secret sauce in the Ryzen seven 2700X, in addition to this processor's higher clock speed, has helped information technology gain ground. Intel's flagship still has a slight edge, though.

seven-Zip File Pinch

7-Naught is a widely used file-pinch utility that features a built-in compression/decompression benchmark. It is a real-world examination that generally utilizes every bit many cores and threads as your processor has to offer.

Here again, it's clear: When the application tin handle multiple cores, the Skylake Core i7-7820X and Threadripper 2950X are the only fries that score better than the Ryzen 7 2700X in this lot. When you look at the performance spring from the Ryzen 7 1800X to the Ryzen vii 2700X (two processors with the same core and thread count) the comeback between the first-generation and 2nd-generation Ryzen chips comes into sharp focus. And here, AMD manages to leapfrog Intel's flagship Coffee Lake processor.

Ryzen Gaming, Revisited

When the first-generation Ryzen processors debuted, Intel'south contemporary crop of fries consistently beat them in one specific application: gaming at 1080p. With modern games, midrange and loftier-end discrete graphics cards barely break a sweat at this resolution, forcing the processor to perform a lot of the heavy lifting. Information technology's not a new trouble, but Intel's decade of dominance has afforded the company's processors countless generation-on-generation game optimizations. Ryzen had none of those inherited optimizations when it launched, and as a result, Intel's processors were enjoying significant and noticeable frame rate advantages across a range of popular games. The problem was much less pronounced at 1440p and all but nonexistent at 4K, but it was plenty for many depression-resolution gamers to write off Ryzen.

Fast-forward to today. Does the Ryzen 7 2700X suffer from the same problems? Based on some limited gaming testing nosotros've performed, things are much improve this fourth dimension around, but AMD nevertheless hasn't achieved consummate parity with Intel in some games. Last year, when running Far Cry Fundamental (on the Loftier preset) at 1080p, AMD'south flagship Ryzen vii 1800X processor paired with a GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition card scored an average of 84fps for the duration of the congenital-in benchmark.

The same test, with the aforementioned discrete graphics bill of fare and the new Ryzen vii 2700X, yielded 105fps, for a 25 percent increase. Intel'south Cadre i7-8700K scored 138fps, so Intel's reward is still evident, even if you'd be difficult-pressed to notice it near of the time, given such high averages.

Ascension Of The Tomb Raider (tested at DX11, on the Very High preset), on the other hand, showed no frame-rate increase between the former and new Ryzen processors, though Intel still showed a roughly 20 percent advantage at 1080p.

At 4K, all systems performed nearly identically (within one or two frames per 2d), as you'd expect most systems to when equipped with the same discrete graphics carte. My advice for PC gamers is less to avoid Ryzen and more to invest in a college-resolution, high-refresh-rate, or ultra-broad monitor to go with your uber-powerful graphics card. Under most circumstances, the balance is hair-splitting.

Overclocking

At first, I overclocked the Ryzen 7 2700X using the BIOS on the MSI X470 Gaming M7 Air conditioning. This method involved slightly raising the core frequency, testing for stability, raising information technology again, and testing for stability again until the organization fails to boot or becomes unresponsive, then systematically raising the cadre voltage until stability is in one case once more achieved. All the while, I kept an eye on the processor's cadre temperature under load to make sure our Cooler Main MasterLiquid ML240L RGB closed-loop cooler was keeping up with the heat output. Like on all Ryzen processors, the multiplier on the Ryzen 7 2700X is fully unlocked, making reliable overclocking fairly straightforward.

I managed to get Windows stable enough to run Cinebench R15 while the Ryzen vii 2700X was clocked (all-cores) at 4.4GHz, four.35GHz, and 4.325GHz, but I encountered stability problems at all speeds in Handbrake. The highest score I ever got in Cinebench was ane,965 (all cores) and 181 (single cadre), only to become results in the rest of the tests, I had to dorsum off. In the motherboard's BIOS carte, leaving the CPU voltage set to "Machine" actually produced the almost consistently stable feel, and my highest reliable scores were accomplished with the core speed fix to 4.3GHz. I also fiddled with a few other settings in the BIOS, such as the CPU Loadline Calibration modes, and I tried small tweaks to the CPU Base Clock, with express success.

Although I saw practiced increases across the benchmarks, it's of import to keep in mind that I was using an all-in-1 liquid cooler, which performs better than the Wraith Libation that AMD ships with this processor. Although iv.3GHz was rarely doable for the first-generation Ryzen processors, information technology appears equally though the Ryzen seven 2000 series tin attain such heights with minimal effort. Safely going beyond that clock speed, even by a piddling bit, seems unlikely without some form of exotic cooling.

I also tried overclocking using Precision Boost Overdrive in the Ryzen Principal utility, and was pleasantly surprised at how shut the results came to our manual overclocking scores. If overclocking in the BIOS is intimidating, and the threat of losing warranty coverage doesn't faze you, then I endorse unleashing PBO in Ryzen Master. It'south an like shooting fish in a barrel, constructive style to eke out some actress functioning from your Ryzen 7 2700X processor.

Verdict? Eight'due south Enough for Most of Usa

With the second-generation Ryzen processors, AMD has proven that the Zen architecture was much more than just a flash in the pan. This is a design with legs, and given the recently launched 2nd-generation Threadripper processors, those legs are very long indeed.

If there'due south i positive affair we can accept abroad from the decade of lackluster processor launches from AMD pre-2017, it is that the company has consistently offered more for less. Now that Ryzen is competitive with Intel's electric current flagship processor, however, the more than-for-less proffer is actress-compelling, whether y'all're a gamer, a professional person, or just an enthusiast who loves to encounter the underdog come out on top now and once again. This underdog is chop-chop evolving into an alpha canis familiaris.

Editors' Note: Gabe Carey rendered testing assistance with this story.

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