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My Overlocked 6600k vs Ryzen/1800x at stock speeds is night and day difference in "real world" performance. Even though general clock speeds are not that much d

by RowanH 8y ago

My Overlocked 6600k vs Ryzen/1800x at stock speeds is night and day difference in "real world" performance. Even though general clock speeds are not that much different - the Ryzen machine is the one I want to use. Desktop productivity improves dramatically with a bunch more cores. Multiple browser tabs, background services, code editors open, VM's open... you can throw a lot of things at the Ryzen machine before you start noticing it starting to slow down. On the 6600 machine it doesn't take much before you notice it chugging.

nine_k 8y ago
Is the amount of RAM the same?
- FractalParadigm 8y ago
  Not the OP but I upgraded from 6600K -> 1800X and honestly they're not even in the same ballpark performance-wise. When you come across software that can take advantage of multiple threads it's not even a contest, the 1800X just walks away laughing. One example I can think of off the top of my head is gaming and transcoding (Plex server) at the same time. Even with QuickSync enabled and running, transcoding HEVC->x264 would regularly stutter and drop frames while a game is running, while also affecting the games framerate. The 1800X (without hardware accelerated video transcoding) just plows through it like it's nothing. I've even had it transcode 10-bit HDR video while playing Forza Horizon 4, not a single loss of framerate in either the game or the video. The extra cores/threads are nothing to scoff at when software can take advantage of them. My upgrade consisted of only the board and CPU; same RAM, GPU, PSU, SSD, etc.
- RowanH 8y ago
  Same amount of ram, different speeds (2133 vs 3000). I attribute the performance largely to the additional cores... the machine has that processor power sitting ready and waiting.
tracker1 8y ago
I'm curious about the amount of memory as well as the drive performance... if you went from 8GB on an HDD to 16+ with an SSD or NVME, huge difference.

by RowanH 8y ago

nine_k 8y ago

Is the amount of RAM the same?

FractalParadigm 8y ago
Not the OP but I upgraded from 6600K -> 1800X and honestly they're not even in the same ballpark performance-wise. When you come across software that can take advantage of multiple threads it's not even a contest, the 1800X just walks away laughing. One example I can think of off the top of my head is gaming and transcoding (Plex server) at the same time. Even with QuickSync enabled and running, transcoding HEVC->x264 would regularly stutter and drop frames while a game is running, while also affecting the games framerate. The 1800X (without hardware accelerated video transcoding) just plows through it like it's nothing. I've even had it transcode 10-bit HDR video while playing Forza Horizon 4, not a single loss of framerate in either the game or the video. The extra cores/threads are nothing to scoff at when software can take advantage of them. My upgrade consisted of only the board and CPU; same RAM, GPU, PSU, SSD, etc.
RowanH 8y ago
Same amount of ram, different speeds (2133 vs 3000). I attribute the performance largely to the additional cores... the machine has that processor power sitting ready and waiting.

tracker1 8y ago

I'm curious about the amount of memory as well as the drive performance... if you went from 8GB on an HDD to 16+ with an SSD or NVME, huge difference.