What's there not to like?
Ryzen @3.4ghz without boost against i7-6900k @3.2 with 3.7ghz boost was head to head with the blender test and won in handbrake.
"The
RYZEN CPU was able to finish the task in 35.57 seconds, while the 6900K was able to do it in 36.01 seconds, roughly half a second more or what’s equivalent to 1.3%. For a 95W CPU going up against a 140W chip this is impressive."
"For this demo again, two identically specced machines were used. One with an 8 core 16 thread RYZEN CPU running at 3.4Ghz and one with an Intel Core i7 6900K. Both PCs were tasked with transcoding the RYZEN announcement video. This is an extremely CPU intensive workload and all 8 cores and 16 threads of both chips were pegged at 100% usage the whole time. The
6900K finished the task in 59 seconds, whilst RYZEN did it in 54 seconds. Five seconds faster, or what’s roughly equivalent to 10%."
They use a 6900K because it's just running on 3.2Ghz and the same 8/16 configuration. If it compare to a 6700K, Ryzen might not perform as well since 6700K have higher clock speed.
"The RYZEN and i7 6900K machines passed with flying colors. The gameplay was smooth and the stream had no dropped frames what so ever. The i7 6700K, even at 4.5Ghz, ran the game just fine but struggled to actually stream the gameplay. Nearly every other frame was being dropped. It genuinely looked like a fast-forwarded slide-show."
Still don't get it...? Then let me try unsarcasmized English
"Ryan was unable to determine an obvious visual difference between the two frame-rate wise, which was the point of the demo."
This implies:
1. There may be non-obvious visual difference
2. There may be non-visual difference
For example, 90fps vs 120fps is non-visual
In practice this will not be visible difference. But are the two products on par?
Statements like that is akin to "you can't see difference between iPhone DPI and Samsung DPI, 1080 vs 2160, and 30fps vs whatever"
Now, since no numbers were shown, it could go both ways. But logically, if it was in AMd's favor, what would you think they would have done?
"The demo involved a short real-time playthrough of a Battlefield 1 mission. The same 8 core, 16 thread 3.4Ghz RYZEN chip was put in a head-to-head comparison with Intel’s i7 6900K. A framerate counter at the upper right hand corner of the screen reported the average framerate output of both systems in real-time.
RYZEN maintained a small performance lead throughout this demo."