Test – AMD Ryzen 7 1700X |Specs | Price

Hi all!

AMD has been lagging behind for its consumer processors for several years now, but in recent months the situation has changed with its new Ryzen which seem to have largely redistributed the cards with its long-standing competitor, Intel! The Ryzen range is made up of 3 types of processors, 4 (Ryzen 5 1400 and 1500X), 6 (Ryzen 5 1600 and 1600X) or 8 (Ryzen 7 1700, 1700X and 1800X) cores in order to adapt to a large part of the uses (and budgets!). Today’s test version is the Ryzen 7 1700X which therefore has 8 cores and can be found at a price of around 380 €, which is very aggressive compared to the competition, let’s see what this gives in practice !

The Ryzen 7 series is therefore made up of 3 processors equipped with 8 cores + 8 logic cores (the equivalent of the HT at Intel), the difference between them is only made as usual on the operating frequency and the TDP. The 1700 operates at a base speed of 3 GHz for 3.7 GHz in turbo mode, the 1700X 3.4 GHz base for 3.8 GHz in turbo and the 1800X 3.6 GHz for 4 GHz in turbo. The TDP, which is the maximum consumption that the processor can achieve at its base frequencies is 65 Watts for the 1700 and 95 Watts for the 1700X / 1800X.
Of course the supported memory is DDR4, 2133 MHz base but of course overclocking is available and can reach much higher speeds depending on the motherboards. There were a lot of concerns at this level at launch with memories that were not compatible due to the youth of the architecture and a launch most certainly done a little too quickly, motherboard manufacturers must therefore small to test and gradually make BIOS available that make faster memory kits compatible. It is therefore imperative when buying a motherboard to update the BIOS in order to have maximum compatibility, in order to be able to activate the XMP profile of their kit without remaining on a black screen on restart.
The Ryzen 7 processors do not have any integrated graphics part like the high-end consumer processors from Intel on socket X99, so there will be no way to start the machine without a graphics card installed in the configuration. .
Offered at a price ranging from € 340 for the 1700 to € 500 for the 1800X, the Ryzen 7 are hard on paper compared to what can be found at Intel, to see now if they are also capable in practice 🙂