A surprising benchmark puts the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X processor with active XFR, above even the i7 6950X, something that had not been achieved so far even with the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X.

New benchmarks on the AMD Ryzen processor have appeared, in this case we are talking about new data from the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X processor. This processor is fighting a tough battle with the Intel i7 6950X, Intel i7 6800K and Intel i7 7700K. We recall that the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X processor, which has eight cores and sixteen processing threads, with a base working frequency of 3.4GHz and a Boost mode of 3.8GHz.

The AMD Ryzen 7 1700X processor competes directly with the i7 7700K. Both have been put to the test with the single-core CPU-Z and apparently it has managed to outperform the i7 7700K processor thanks to the Extended Frequency Range technology. Apparently the AMD processor achieves a frequency of 4GHz, while the Intel processor is working at the maximum frequency of 4.5GHz, thus giving the result of being more powerful the Ryzen processor than the Kaby Lake in mono-core.

The multi-threaded results are pretty strange, really. The i7 6950X processor had not yet been beaten in any synthetic benchmark that makes use of multiple cores and where the number of cores outweighs the frequency of the processor itself. The i7 6950X has ten cores and twenty processing threads and that it manages to get more than 4000 points seems quite rare, almost impossible. The data is true that they say what they say, but until now this had not been the case.

So far the benchmarks with the Cinebench R15 put the Ryzen 7 1800X behind the i7 6950X And the same was true of the GeekBench 3, therefore it seems illogical that the Ryzen 7 1700X is even more powerful than the Ryzen 7 1800X processor. We can even question that in mono-core it is capable of beating the i7 7700K, because we already know that in single-core processes it is the frequency that counts. It is possible that the AMD processor does not work at its stock frequencies and with the XFR it has increased its frequency significantly, destroying the Intel processors. If it has been achieved with XFR, it would be clear that Intel has a serious problem, but we are going to take this data with caution.

Whether these benchmarks are real, false or with XFR, what is more than clear is that AMD has achieved very powerful processors capable of keeping up with Intel processors and even passing them without major problems. Competitive prices, as we have seen, are already forcing Intel to lower the price of its processors and some other move should be made, because right now, AMD Ryzen is taking over the processor market.

Source: wccftech