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finally we can talk about all the hype and let me tell you it sure is what the wait MV wizened processors are finally here what's up guys ibrahim our connects and today we are finally taking a look at AMD's a most anticipated processor revival with the rising 7 Series launch now I know a lot of you guys are still pumped with the benchmarks but before we proceed to that segment understanding the key basics of this microarchitecture is important we'll only be showcasing and benchmarking the r7 1800 X which is the current rise and slash of CPU and I'll eventually push that to its paces against Intel's latest and most expensive offerings plus as soon as we get our hands on the 1700 and the 1700 X CPUs a follow-up video will be posted but before we get into this a quick message from our sponsor you can only rely on the pros to do the job with every keystroke satisfying like the millions before quality killed every key regardless of your faith hula master master keys bro they could listen make it real let's start off with some incredible achievements with the news and architecture MD wanted to increase the instructions per clock over the excavator cores by 40% but the end result is a staggering 52 percent IPC increase bringing MD into direct competition against Intel's Broadwell counterparts expect strong single and multi threaded performance from the r7 series of CPUs and that single thread uplift will be key since it was an area and his previous architecture struggled in spec wise aim D is poised to launch an entire lineup right away at the top of the stack is the 1800 X which is an 8 core processor with 16 threads these rising processors are actually Indies first to use a form of simultaneous multi-threading technology which allows each core to produce two concurrent processing threads the horizon 7 1800 exa has a base clock of 3.6 gigahertz it can boost up to 4 gigahertz or 4.1 given thermals are under control and there's a total combined cache of 20 megabytes those are pretty impressive numbers given it has claimed TDP of just 95 watts compared to 140 watts on the 6900 K from Intel I also have to mention in these incredibly competitive price of $500 making the r7 1800 X the most powerful and affordable 16 thread processor ever made it also happens to be literally half the price of intel's closest competitor the i7 6900 K meanwhile the 1700 X uses basically the same eight cores sixteen thread design but it runs at a slightly lower frequency and it has a lower price of $400 I personally think this will end up being the sweet spot for the 5:07 lineup finally there's the very similar Rison 7 1700 with it's a very sweet price of 329 USD but it's clock speeds may present a challenge for anyone looking for a gaming sieve you remember many games require high frequencies for optimal performance but this processor could be great for larger parallel workloads one of the most interesting stories behind Rison is in these sent mi which includes technologies like precision boost pure power and extended frequency range precision boosts basically allows the processor clock speeds to responded extremely quick intervals to changes in loads or internal temperatures pure power meanwhile ensures that the cores enter a low-power state when they are needed which lowers overall power consumption speaking of temperatures if the processor senses that it has additional thermal Headroom it will extend frequencies between 100 megahertz and 50 megahertz above maximum precision to speed in single flight scenarios this XFR or extended frequency range benefits from low temperatures which means it is extremely important to keep your processor cool now you may have noticed that some of these processors have an ex attached to their name while others don't that X indicates how far a rise in seven processors xfr extends CPUs without the X can go 50 meters above their position to speed while the 1800 X and the 1700 X can hit 100 mega faster it's also important to note that aim G's rise in CPUs are built around the new m4 platform with a new 1331 socket and ddr4 support aim for is not backwards compatible with older generation CPUs but AMD has made sure to build their new platform with future proofing in mind to support upcoming some generation AP use or the Ravens rich AP use based on the Zen architecture so expect this platform to last through 2020 this gives motherboard manufacturer is an opportunity to create different solutions starting with the entry-level a 320 or a /b 302 mid-range B 352 premium X 370 or X 300 boards these motherboards feature the latest IO including nvme pcie 3.0 X 4 SATA SATA Express dual-channel ddr2 View SB 3.1 gen2 and more I'll be going over the differences between other boards in another video so stay tuned for that but let's just check out this Asus crosshair 6 hero it has everything an enthusiast could possibly want from a motherboard one thing I do have to mention is that the Rison processor only provides 16 lanes of PCI equivalent support that means just like internal z 270 platform cards will be operating a double by eight-speed this is certainly interesting since AMD made a big deal about their support for triple and quad card crossfire setups but the enthusiast platform awooo natively support those however motherboard vendors could possibly add plx Lane multipliers for added functionality on their premium boards also take note that if you already have a cooler that have a dedicated backplate which supports the older and three socket aim force hole offsets are slightly different many cooler manufacturers like Noctua and Corsair are offering their clients upgrade kits free of charge meanwhile if you're cooler uses the simple clip-on method it should be compatible from a high-level standpoint the Zen architecture uses a simple modular building block called the CPU complex or CCX each of these CC axes contain four cores which uses simultaneous multi-threaded technology to process up to eight threads in parallel and they can be used individually as a simple high efficiency fork or a thread part or combine to make larger more capable processors for higher-end markets meanwhile individual cores within each CCX can be individually disabled as well without impacting overall performance metrics for example Rison seven has two of these modules while risings five make use of to CCX modules but disables a pair of course to create a six core 1220 PU the possibilities really are endless now before I get into the benchmarks you need to listen up about risings memory limitations because there are a bit confusing right now if you want a full explainer then click on the link that just popped up to head to our website basically you'll want to buy a memory with a speed-up 2667 megahertz or lower or 2400 megahertz or lower if it's a dual channel dual rank 32 gigabyte kit luckily many memory manufacturers will be launching license specific kits in the coming days so with all that done let's see how rising seven performs but let's first start with the test system specifications as you can see we are using an identical memory configuration across all platforms while a Titan X is being used to ensure we eliminate graphics bottlenecks kicking off our rising benchmarks with the Photoworks test is perfect since it highlights one of challenges against Intel's competing architecture while this test may be multi-core aware like many image processing tasks it is lightly threaded this leads to architectures with higher IPC waves providing awesome results a good example of this is how well the cable eight processors do relative to those expensive broad well eat chips moving on to parallel processing workloads and Rison is able to truly shine meanwhile it's evident that AMD has big some very serious cryptography and hashing optimizations into them likely as a result of its ultra quick caching as a result the Rison r7 1800 X is able to blow Intel's most expensive enthusiast level chips straight out of the water in the AES 256 and CPU hash benchmarks finally the floating-point unit VP a and singulair tests once again highlights just how far AMD has come between bulldozer and Xen in both cases performance is nothing short of astounding for a 500-dollar processor it's awesome as the tests move into a little more relatable territory we have a bit of a yin and yang situation rising obviously excels in center benches and W Prime's multi-threaded workloads but it tends to struggle against intel's kb lake architecture in the predominantly lightly threaded environment pc mark utilizes on the other hand the 1800 x competes very well against and even beat the nearly three-year-old Broadwell design moving on to real-world tasks highlights just how effective Rison can be from a price to performance standpoint particularly in Adobe Premiere Pro media encoder remember this is a $500 processor that's keeping up blow to blow against competitors that cost twice or even three times as much with that being said even with a tight next chugging along with the background acceleration there's still some ball necking going around behind the scenes so the differentiation between these processors is relatively minimal in many rendering tests the Rison 7 1800 X doesn't win against the i7 69 under K but its performance is so close to intel's $1,000 processor that they're essentially tied once again we're seeing rise and struggle in a lightly press photo manipulation tasks in but it doesn't have exclusivity on those performance challenges the broad will eat chips which don't pack in a very specific IPC increases from Intel's skylake and Kubelik architectures also push lower than expected results honestly if you're pushing filter heavy photography workloads in GIMP Photoshop or any other similar program the KB like chips represent money well-spent can break on the other hand place to rise in strengths in a big way and much like Adobe Premiere Pro the 1,800 ex-post some extremely respectable video conversion times rounding out our real-world benchmarks are two very different programs on one hand pov-ray represents a very typical rendering environment as we've seen over the last few pages the rising 7 1,800 X provides an awesome platform upon which you can build a rendering station however in a program like WinRAR that fluctuates between light CP workloads and heavily furred situations performance relative to intel's competitors slips a bit given the fact that this is a $500 processor there's absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about here though and now what you've been waiting for some gaming starting with Tweety mark when using DX lemon rising suffers which is likely due to this benchmarks focus on duel - quad red workloads an area where Angie's new architecture seems to have some trouble keeping up with Intel switching things to DX 12 and it's multi-threaded environment sees the 1800 X climbed back into contention but oddly enough the CPU focused side on the time supply benchmark shows a no log for AMD its result is within 10 percent of Intel i7 6900 K but that's a fair bit off from the 5 to 15% bins were seen here in some previous tests will this hold out into our end game testing let's see with a mighty Titan X beating at the heart of the test system I was hoping to eliminate any GP bottlenecks but obviously that didn't happen in some cases when there wasn't any GP bottle next rising did fall behind its immediate competition though with its latest patch battlefield ones the actual API path seems to be perfectly tailored for high frequency quad-core architectures like KB Lake and as a result risin ends up mid pack trailing every one of the Intel infinite warfare on the other hand has a frame rate cap at 125 frames per second and none of these new processors had much of a problem reaching that level the Deus Ex result came in a bit of a shock to me since I expected AMD to have in place optimizations for the horizon architecture there were very close development partners with Square Enix on this title once again however rising sell behind even the 7600 K as for dooms the Vulcan implementation well what's there to say 200 films per second is more than enough and we're smashing right into the games engines framerate cap obviously more testing will need to take place at high resolutions but in those situations the GPU will influence the results much more than the processor neither GTA 5 or overwatch allow rising to catch much of a break but they do highlight why I repeated time and again that Intel i5 series processors are absolutely gangbusters in the gaming price to performance category they may not have all those fancy cores but their lack of hyper threading leads to substantially better resource allocation in many games perhaps dx12 will change the situation in some way but right now buying an a thread or higher processor exclusively for gaming is a phenomenal waste of money now on to power consumption the testing here is what they consistently high load from AI to 64 alongside idle conditions at idle Rises enhanced P States kicks in and it's able to sit down an impressive low amount of juice kicking things up a notch our low results measuring 900 separate log data points to determine a to average power consumption for the system here the risin 7 1800 X provided respectable results but nothing that aligns with the 45 watt TDP difference between it and the i7 69 hundred K and E is obviously measuring their TDP values quite differently from Intel unlike Amy's official TDP values would have you believe the winner in a raw performance per watt dogfight between the thousand seven 1800 X and the 69 hundred K will depend upon the application from what we saw both consume about the same amount of power when under full load one other thing I wanted to point out is just how far in DCPS architecture has matured since piledrivers based FX series from a performance per watt state point Rison is in a completely different league so there you have it aim D's Zen architecture and flagship bison processor have arrived and I can't help but be impressed with what's been accomplished even with this small single CPU glance into what can be accomplished it's hard not to be excited about what else can be accomplished with this processor design as amateurs for professionals or prosumers Rison not only leads the charge on the performance fund but also in pricing the 1800 x was able to easily blow with it's much more expensive i 769 hundred k in almost every application from premier pro to blender and 3dsmax in many cases its performance per dollar ratio is just standing simply because Intel's pricing is just so darn high and make no mistake about it at $500 the risin 7 1800 X certainly isn't inexpensive just like higher end Intel processors like me 6800 K 6900 K and even the insanely expensive 69 50x the rising 7 is a relatively poor choice for a pure gaming rig yeah if you want to use it for gaming alongside secondary tasks like streaming or professional work there's some great value there however even today's leading-edge Vulcan and DX well games benefit from high speed 4 or a thread processors rather than slower 1620 views in some cases you'll actually get better in-game performance from an Intel 7600 k then you will from a risin 7 or Broadwell e look any of these wisent isn't perfect but what it does do is provide a great counterpart to Intel's pricing strategy without sacrificing any performance if anything the 1800 X has been super excited to see what else is coming from the lineup since a higher clocked quad-core or six Courtship could make for a perfect all-around offering as a matter of fact we're going to give the Weizmann 7 1800 X are damn good and damn innovative Awards for a job well done while I've come to end this review this doesn't end our coverage for Rison we already have our hands on with the r7 1700 X 1,700 and we're planning a few bills featuring decent processors then there's risin 5 and rising three launches coming up very shortly so the next few months are going to be really exciting and I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on with these new AMD processors but let us know your thoughts about AMD Rison and its performance compared to Intel's offerings i'm Ueberroth hurricane axe thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one