Final Thoughts
Pricing
The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 8-Core 3.6GHz AM4 Processor is available now from most major retailers, and right now it’s sitting at just £488.99 on Amazon UK and $499 on Amazon US. While that’s certainly an exceptional price for such a competitive chip in terms of performance and features, it’ll be interesting to see how long it stays at that price, as Intel are sure to start nipping away at their own prices to compete, and we would expect AMD to start doing the same.
Overview
Ryzen has been hyped to the extreme for quite some time now, and it’s great to see that despite a few minor hiccups in our own testing, their new flagship chip has pretty much lived up to the hype, and we expect it’s going to get even better. There are a few minor issues with memory so far, we noticed high latency there, and A-XMP profiles need improvement, but we’re working on a pre-release BIOS and expect updates that will resolve these issues to be released in the near future.
The chip didn’t do as well as I expected in Ashes of the Singularity, but we’ve heard similar reports of a buggy benchmark, so we’ll revisit that, as well as FireStrike in the near future for more in-depth performance testing, especially so at higher resolutions. However, in other CPU/GPU testing, the Ryzen chip was able to stretch its legs and topped our charts with lightning fast benchmark times and scores. When it came to playing Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of Mordor, the 1800X @ 4.1GHz is the fastest thing we’ve ever tested from AMD, and that’s great news for the gaming masses.
Overclocking on the 1800X couldn’t have been much easier, just tap in your new frequency, bump up the voltage a bit, and you’re good to go. Keeping it at those clocks, however, was the tricky part. The chip does love to get quite hot, but that’s true of any Intel 8-core chip too, so investing in a powerful air or water cooler is recommended for any form of overclocking. We used a be quiet! Silent Loop 240mm on our Ryzen 7 1800X, but I think the 280mm may have helped us reach a stable 4.2GHz.
The built-in Precision Boost and the XFR features work great for those who don’t want to overclock. The chip is more than capable of checking its own temperature and giving you speeds of up to 4GHz on Precision Boost, and if you’ve still got the thermal headroom, XFR will push it to 4.1GHz when you need it.
While overclocking isn’t going to be something everyone wants to do, and for those not investing in a motherboard that features the overclocking capabilities, the 1800X still puts on a good show and will bring huge benefits to those who use multi-tasking applications a lot on their system. If you’re running a Twitch stream while gaming, running overlays, rendering, and more, all those extra cores are going to come in very handy indeed.
Performance is good, but also the introduction of many features to the AMD landscape, such as NVMe x4, USB 3.1 Gen2, DDR4, 24 flexible PCIe Gen 3 lanes, and full overclocking across the whole CPU range, all add up to a more consumer friendly package that’s sure to get even better as more games and applications increase their support for multi-threading. It’s great to see AMD back in the market with a competitive product.
Pros
- Competitive price
- 8-Core w/ 16 Threads
- Improved feature set and hardware support from AM4 Platform
- Easy to overclock (on B350 and X370 chipsets only)
- Precision Boost and XFR
- Excellent gaming performance
Cons
- None
Neutral
- Memory performance still has a few bugs, but we expect these will be fixed with a BIOS update
- Like all 8-core chips, it can get quite warm, so a powerful cooler is recommended
“The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X is one of the best chips we’ve ever tested from the red team, delivering impressive performance, features and overclocking at an even more impressive price that’s sure to appeal to content creators and gamers.”
Good job Intel at beating garbage AMD at damn near every test. And good job to the reviewers to act like there’s still a reason to buy AMD
These numbers didn’t look like this when Linus just did his review…
Yes it did. Ryzen hasnt beaten Intel in gaming for a single review yet.
I’ve actually seen multiple reviews and numbers were all over the place. In some it crushed Intel, in some it has been crushed, in some others they were trading blows.
Not a single relevant review has AMD ahead of Intel for gaming. Not a single one.
Are you actually reading the same reviews I’m reading?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e1bdb6c71901c16c18bfc1764404861eb2516d11727f2e99409c6042d34655f8.png FYI, stinky fanboy. You’re defending a criminal organization
Ken Kirby talking smack for nothing, like Intel or Ngreeedia have not had many similar problems. give time for optimizations and code to let Ryzen shine, then open your stupid mouth. if all we had was either Intel or Nv garbage, guess where performance and pricing be, in the toilet PERIOD.
Many sites are biased towards Intel and Nvidia, so will always show their numbers best bu subvertly adjusting things and not saying what they have done for many reasons, and in the same manner do on purpose to show AMD/Radeon in worst light, cause they are paid to do exactly that. live in a world where there is just 2 main companies, and the world is held back, remember that. At very least, this cause Intel and partners as well as Nvidia and partners to rush to address pricing and performance issues, dont be a tool!
if the AMD is gonna issue another better processor like hypothetically a 1900(X) with 12 cores, at less than $750 or 800 (pretty sure at a 75% expected price in case of lower clock), even for the people prone to Intel or Nvidia, won’t leave a relatively low marks on verdict.
wish AMD can issue a 12 core Ryzen like Intel. lawl.
My 6800K clocked at 4.1 MHz for a mere 1.199 V with absolute stability, and every reviewer complained that it was hot when it first came out. Now, the 1800x, clocked 4.1 MHz for 1.488 V, and none will be complaining, I suppose. Of course for haft the price of the 6900K, it’s a no brainer.
AMD and Intel totally different design so cannot and should not expect similar voltage, heat, power used, temperatures given etc.pretty sure you mean Ghz, not Mhz, cause if you really mean only 4.1Mhz that high of a voltage will blow them up :D..and no not all sites are reporting need that crazy amount of voltage, read elsewhere they could get 4.1 at 1.34-.137v rock solid, many sites seeing as they got the review samples often only days before could place said review up i.e very limited time to do so, which ends up being they rush through overclocking and benchmarks, in overclocking tests, if you do NOT take time to tune, and just brute force approach, sure you can get the higher speed, but that much extra voltage really limits performance and clocks you can achieve, cause it means more heat, more heat, less speed, and quicker things will break.
Funny how you said that yours only needed 1.199v for 4.1″Ghz” when every review I have just looked at showed that exact processor needing in the range of 3.65-1.477 volts AND the actually power consumed in watts and heat given off when clocked past the 4Ghz range starts to skyrocket, so, its a wash as far as “old” vs “new” Intel vs AMD, all the modern intel chips unless clocked high from the factory really really start to suck back power and get so much hotter when clock speeds are pushed up, this is not me saying such, this is 100s if not thousands of reviews to back it up, they are efficient if left at “stock” but, power(watts and volts) go up as the speed goes up, dramatically once a certain amount is reached.
Could be you got a 99% better then any other 6800k ever released, could be it was like this for awhile with not a true 100% stability, it could be you are lying through your teeth for nothing but trolling.
No, It’s a true 100% stability. The initial voltage is a mere 1.194 V, and it survived a 16 minutes CPU-Z stress test. I also used the 1.194 V setting to browse the web and watched YouTube all day without any issue. But, when I tried to export a photo of 611 MB from Adobe Lightroom, Windows crashed, Adobe Lightroom is a very power-hungry application, more so than gaming. With the 1.199 V setting, I ‘played with Lightroom for several days’ without any issue. So, 1.199 V is definitely 100% stable. But, 4 GHz @ 1.168 V is my prefer setting, as it consumes on average 10 w less, and my second favourite profile is of course the 1.199 V setting.
you didn’t just win the silicon lottery, you won the silicon jackpot.
Eteknix, why is my comment being deleted? Please can somebody ( a mod ) respond?
100mhz OC = 12fps gain.. legiiiiiit
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So your telling me my $490 7700k is close to a $685 1800x ? I feel good mate