[Up to now] Coffee Lake was generally regarded as the better gaming CPU in most cases. This appears to have dreastically changed with the Ryzen 7 2700X, which has managed to outperform the i7 8700K in no less than 7 out of 10 gaming tests conducted.
The $329 Ryzen 7 2700X absolutely dominates [lower core count Intel] in multi-threaded tests like wPrime, Cinebench R15 and x264 transcoding, all whilst maintaining a maximum temperature of ~65c, thanks to the incredible Wraith Prism cooler.
Finally we come to the overclocking performance of the chip, the reviewers managed to push it to 4.3GHz on all 8 cores using an H80i GT.
All-in-all the Ryzen 7 2700X appears to be all things to all people. It absolutely excels at multi-threaded performance with 8 cores and 16 threads, the six core Coffee Lakes simply can’t keep up.
At $329, it also undercuts Intel’s i7 8700K to win the bang for buck contest. The Ryzen 7 2700X appears to have hit the holy trifecta of silicon, superior overall performance, performance per watt and performance per dollar compared to the competition..
A couple pre-release articles have noted that the often included Wraith cooler (on 2700X) is actually quite good.
Needs the new model AMD 470 chipset gaming motherboard to accomplish all this.
Article reads like its written by an AMD fan (maybe it is). We'll see when more test reports hit the wires over the next few days (April 19 official release date).
