AMD Ryzen 7 1700X benchmarks leak and they are impressive

Benchmark scores from the PassMark CPU Benchmark provide a glimpe of the performance of the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 1700X. If these scores are real they are definitely impressive, especially because they were gathered under less-than-ideal circumstances. Due to board availability issues, the Ryzen chip was tested on a low-end MSI motherboard with the AMD A320 chipset. The tester also used 2400MHz DDR4 memory with loose timings and it seems Turbo mode did not work or was not detected by the benchmark. All of this could negatively impact the scores.

There are nine different benchmarks scores from CPU Mark and in most tests the Ryzen 7 1700X was able to beat the the Intel Core i7 6800K, which was benched with faster memory, and in some tests the Ryzen chip actually beats the Intel Core i7 6900K. Pretty impressive scores, all nine benchmarks results can be seen at Overclock3D.

These tests are from CPUMARK, which tests several aspects of CPUs from single-core performance, integer math, floating-point performance and many more forms of calculations. Here we have 9 different CPU-related tests on AMD's Ryzen CPU engineering sample as well as data from a lot of recent Intel CPUs like the 7700K and the i7 6900K.

When looking at the Integer Math score we can see that AMD's Ryzen architecture can really pack a punch, with AMD's engineering sample actually besting Intel's i7 6900K, which is a highly impressive result for AMD, especially given the fact that this CPU is not the Ryzen flagship model.