AMD's Ryzen 7 1700X has been testedagainst its price equivalent counterpart, the Intel Core i7 6800K in 13 differentgames. This comesvia an early Chinese review which features a plethora of other tests including the very first power consumption figures for Ryzen.

Despite offering two more cores, four more threads, a lower TDP and higher clock speeds the $399 Ryzen 7 1700X is AMD's direct competitor to the $420 6-core Intel Core i7 6800K. If these benchmarks are any indication we could be looking at an incredible performer that not only outperforms the 6800K but also does it at lower power consumption.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs i7 6800K - The Benchmarks

Before we dive into the numbers I'd like to quickly remind everyone to take this with the usual grain of salt. These resultare by no means official as the embargo on reviews will only end on March 2nd.

System specs :

RX 480 8G, Win10 64-bit, Crimson 17.2.1 drivers (Shared)

Intel Core i7 6800K

ASUS STRIX X99 GAMING

16GB DDR4-2400,

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

ASUS PRIME X370-PRO

16GB DDR4-2133

The testsin order are :

3DMark Firestrike physics

3DMark11 physics

Ludashi 5.15 CPU(a shitty Chinese benchmark sw)

Ludashi 5.15 GPU

Ludashi 5.15 Mem

Ludashi 5.15 Disk

Blender 2.78A

7-zip 15.05beta 1min

LuxMark3.1 CPU OpenCL

FritzChessbenchmark

CinebenchR15 ST

CinebenchR15 MT

We've translated and compiled all tests below Cinebench in a separate table in the next section.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs i7 6800K Benchmarked In 13 Games

In 9 out of the 13 tested games the 1700X was faster than the 6800K. In two out of the 13 games tested it had higher average framerates and lower minimum framerates. In the remaining two games, Battlefield 1 & Call of Duty Infinite Warfare the 6800K was faster.

If these benchamrks are to be believed the Ryzen 7 1700X is shaping up to be a fantastic gaming CPU. At the very least when compared to its most direct Broadwell-E competition from Intel. However, the most impressive part of all of this has been Ryzen's power consumption measurements.

The Ryzen 7 1700X is a 95W CPU, whilst the 6800K is a 140W chip. This noticeable gap in TDPs is evident in the power consumption data where the 1700X delivers more performance at 25-30% less power.It's quite remarkable, if true, that a higher core count, higher frequency and overall better performing 1700X is significantly more power efficient than the 6800K.