Description

After more than four years of work on the new “Zen” microarchitecture for their x86 processors, the beginning of 2017 heralds AMD’s fresh attempt at recapturing the high-end segment. After having previously abandoned this front in the eternal battle between David and Goliath, AMD has rolled out the heavy guns in the form of a cutting-edge processor design going by the name of Ryzen.

Massive performance improvements in every respect mean that AMD’s Ryzen quad-core, hexa-core and octa-core CPUs handily outperform their predecessors and combine innovative features with a pioneering platform as well as cutting-edge I/O interfaces. And yet AMD’s new “Zen” architecture is so flexible and versatile that they can be installed into high-end desktop platforms as well as mainstream APUs utilising integrated graphics, and enabling the processors to scale from high-performance servers for data centres all the way down to fan-less mobile platforms, has brought forth an array of performance-enhancing features and characteristics to their intended fields. This is how the chip manufacturer intends to pave the way for a dazzling comeback, and AMD has laid the foundations to this approach for the next few years on the broad shoulders of the AM4 platform. As the underdog in the battle for supreme processing power, AMD continues to offer their customers an extremely attractive price-to-performance ratio in the new range of Ryzen CPUs.

– 8 “Zen” cores with a low 95 Watt Thermal Design Power (TDP)
– 16 Threads thanks to Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT)
– Very high single- and multi-thread performance
– 3,4 GHz Base- & 3,8 GHz Turbo Clock with Precision Boost
– “X” Version with automatic XFR overclocking
– Unlocked multiplier for manual overclocking (unlocked CPU)
– Large memory cache: 4 MB L2 & 16 MB L3
– Highly efficient, non-planar 14 Nanometre FinFET transistors
– AVX2 instruction set extensions for complex vector calculations
– Two AES units for fast and reliable data encryption
– Modern AM4 platform with extensive features
– Supports energy efficient DDR4-RAM (Dual-Channel)

CPU Type
AMD Ryzen 7

CPU Model
1700X

Core Name
Zen/Summit Ridge

Socket
AM4

CPU Size
14nm FinFET

Number of Cores
8

Number of Threads
16

Clock Speed
3.4GHz

Turbo Speed
3.8GHz

Unlocked Core Multiplier
Yes

Processor Graphics
N/A

GPU Base Speed
N/A

GPU Max Speed
N/A

GPU Max Resolution
N/A

Cache
MB

L1 Cache
N/A

L2 Cache
4MB (512KB per core)

L3 Cache
16MB (2MB per core)

Voltage
N/A

Max TDP
95W

Heatsink
Not Included
Sold Separately

Packaging
Retail