{"id":1680,"date":"2019-08-18T19:41:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T02:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2020-01-11T12:51:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T20:51:59","slug":"some-comparative-cpu-z-benchmark-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/some-comparative-cpu-z-benchmark-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Comparative CPU-Z Benchmark Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">About a month ago, I built a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/building-an-amd-ryzen-7-3700x-desktop-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">desktop gaming system<\/a> based on an AMD Ryzen R7-3700X 8C\/16T processor. I mainly use that system to play World of Tanks at 2K (2560 x 1440), and this new system has significantly higher frame rates at 2K (typically 95-120 fps) than my previous system. When you are gaming at 2K or 4K, your video card is going to be your main bottleneck, unless your CPU is extremely slow. <font size=\"2\">I am using the stock AMD RGB Wraith Prism CPU cooler, and the only tweak I have done so far is to enable the XMP memory profile in the BIOS so that my G.Skill Trident Z CL15 DDR4-3600 memory is running at full speed.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">I previously promised some benchmarks on the new system, so one very quick and easy one is the CPU-Z benchmark. This test only takes about 15 seconds, and it is part of the very useful&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpuid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CPU-Z utility<\/a>, which requires no installation. This makes it very easy to run on a system, whether it is a gaming rig or a VM that will be running SQL Server. Figure 1 shows an example result on my AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X workstation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image-5.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"484\" title=\"image\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image_thumb-5.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Figure 1: Example CPU-Z Benchmark Results<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Today, I decided to run the CPU-Z 1.89.1 CPU benchmark on eight different systems that I have around the house. Two of these are high-end desktops (HEDT), three are mainstream desktops, and three are laptops. The ST Score is the single-threaded score, while the MT score is the multi-threaded score.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The oldest system in the bunch is the 14nm <a href=\"https:\/\/ark.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/ark\/products\/88195\/intel-core-i7-6700k-processor-8m-cache-up-to-4-20-ghz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intel Core i7-6700K<\/a> from Q3 2015, while the newest is the 7nm AMD Ryzen R7-3700X from Q3 2019. My AMD Ryzen Threadripper systems don\u2019t quite have the same single-threaded CPU performance as the mainstream desktop systems, but they do have a lot more cores (and PCIe 3.0 lanes).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cpu-z-scores.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1028\" height=\"459\" title=\"CPU-Z scores\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"CPU-Z scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cpu-z-scores_thumb.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Figure 2: Comparative CPU-Z Benchmark Scores<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">None of these systems are the current \u201ctop of the line\u201d anymore. The AMD Ryzen R7-3700X is roughly in the middle of the stack for the AMD Ryzen 3000 series. The value proposition of the AMD Ryzen 3000 series is that you get great multi-threaded CPU performance, and close enough single-threaded CPU performance for significantly less money than comparable Intel mainstream desktop processors. You also get PCIe 4.0 support with an X570 motherboard.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/amd-3rd-gen-ryzen-threadripper-sharkstooth-benchmarks-leak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rumor has it<\/a> that AMD may introduce the 3rd generation Ryzen Threadripper processors as soon as September 7, 2019, supposedly with new X599 motherboards to enable PCIe 4.0 support.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I built a new desktop gaming system based on an AMD Ryzen R7-3700X 8C\/16T processor. 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