AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Overclocking – Best Ryzen Processor?
Discrete GPU Gaming Performance
Thief
Thief is a series of stealth video games in which the player takes the role of Garrett, a master thief in a fantasy/steampunk world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with more advanced technologies interspersed. Thief is the fourth title in the Thief series, developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix on February 25, 2014. We picked this game title for CPU testing as it is known to scale well with CPUs. We use the games built-in benchmark and test with the default settings with these changes; exclusive fullscreen, vSync off, 1920 x 1080, 60Hz.
Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V, currently one of the hottest PC games, was finally released for the PC on April 14, 2015. Developed by Rockstar, it is set in 2013 and the city of Los Santos. It utilizes the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) which Rockstar has been using since 2006, with multiple updates for technology improvements. We picked this game title for CPU testing as it is known to scale well with CPUs. We use the games built-in benchmark and test with the default settings with these changes; vSync off, 1920 x 1080, 60Hz.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is an action role-playing stealth video game developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix. Set in a cyberpunk-themed dystopian world in 2029, two years after the events of Human Revolution, Mankind Divided features the return of Adam Jensen from the previous game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, with new technology and body augmentations. The game was released on August 23rd, 2016 for PC users and we are using it to show DX12 performance on the CPUs that we tested. DX12 removed most all of the CPU overhead, so we wanted to see what happens to performance on DX12 game titles as well. We use the games built-in benchmark and test with the default settings with these changes; DX12 enabled, exclusive fullscreen, vSync off, 1920 x 1080, 60Hz, medium graphics.
Discrete Gaming Benchmarks Results Summary: Overclocking helps gaming performance a bit, but doesn’t give the Ryzen 7 1700 enough to compete with many of the Intel processors of years past.
We looked at 1920×1080, 2560 x 1440 and 4K scaling performance in GTAV and found that the overclock helped the Ryzen 7 1700 processor perform better than the stock 1700X and 1800X at 1080P and 1440P gaming resulutions. It was still 6% behind Intel at 1440P, but the overclock is helping Ryzen catch up to Intel.
At 1080P the performance gap is just tough to close and on some DX12 game titles like Dues Ex: Mankind Divided it really looks like a game patch or something is needed for AMD to get their scores up there.
Let’s take a look at power consumption.