Filtered the first 'review' of the AMD Ryzen 2 processors, specifically the Ryzen 7 2700X and the Ryzen 5 2600, which offer a significant performance improvement over their predecessors.

The first review of the AMD Ryzen 2 processors has been leaked, well, more than a review, they are benchmark data of the Ryzen 5 2600 and Ryzen 7 2700X processors belonging to the Pinnacle Ridge family and based on the 12nm manufacturing process. Preliminary data reveals a really powerful processor. An unknown motherboard has been used for the benchmarks of this processor and the memories were DDR4 working at 2933MHz. Also, the SiSoftware data gives us the TDP and all the frequencies of these processors.

It strikes us that they are compared with an i7 6700K of the Skylake family, which are the first Intel family in 14nm, it does not compare with the Kaby Lake, not with the Coffee Lake, especially with the i7 8700K, which has with six cores and twelve threads, that would be a better comparison, no doubt.

Regarding the performance of these processors, we are not going to review all the points, we will leave you the benchmarks at the end of the entry. What matters to us is that the Ryzen 7 2700X processor has a performance improvement of between 12-18% compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X. In addition, it also improves bandwidth, being an improvement of 32%.

Ryzen processors have the characteristic of depending a lot on cache latency, bandwidth and communication between the cores, essential for good performance in gaming, especially. It has been greatly improved and improved further with high frequency DDR4 memories.

WCCFTech also highlights that reliable sources have told them the Ryzen 7 2700X can reliably operate at a frequency of 4.4GHz and supports DDR4 RAM up to 4.000MHz. The second-generation Ryzen processors will operate at an average of 400MHz, higher than the 14nm Ryzen processors.