The most popular Ryzen 7000 with 3D V-cache obliterates competition in its targeted environment. Intel doesn’t measure up to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in a comparable price range in terms of speed, and even if someone disregards price and sees the Core i9-13900K(S) as a an apt competitor, when comparing power draw, everyone’s appetite for Intel will go away. Their efficiency is… incomparable, as each is at a different end of the spectrum.
Affinity Photo (benchmark)
Test environment: built-in benchmark.
Topaz Labs AI apps
Topaz DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI and Sharpen AI. These single-purpose applications are used for restoration of low-quality photos. Whether it is high noise (caused by higher ISO), raster level (typically after cropping) or when something needs extra focus. The AI performance is always used.
Test environment: As part of batch editing, 42 photos with a lower resolution of 1920 × 1280 px are processed, with the settings from the images above. DeNoise AI is in version 3.1.2, Gigapixel in 5.5.2 and Sharpen AI in 3.1.2.
XnViewMP
Test environment: XnViewMP is finally a photo-editor for which you don’t have to pay. At the same time, it uses hardware very efficiently. In order to achieve more reasonable comparison times, we had to create an archive of up to 1024 photos, where we reduce the original resolution of 5472 × 3648 px to 1980 × 1280 px and filters with automatic contrast enhancement and noise reduction are also being applied during this process. We use 64-bit portable version 0.98.4.
Zoner Photo Studio X
Test environment: In Zoner Photo Studio X we convert 42 .CR2 (RAW Canon) photos to JPEG while keeping the original resolution (5472 × 3648 px) at the lowest possible compression, with the ZPS X profile ”high quality for archival”.
First of all fantastic review. Would it be possible for you in the future to also include X-Plane 12 and DCS World in your benchmark suite? No one ever tests them and while they are very niche they are extremly CPU heavy, moreso than any other game. That would be awesome to see if you could do that.
Thank you for the useful tips for expanding test applications. X-Plane 12 and DCS World will probably be included, but probably won’t be in the next test yet. The time complexity of the things we do (not only in the processor tests) is hitting a ceiling with the current editorial capabilities. Anyway, I’m putting both games on the list of “things that would be worthwhile to deal with as part of a methodology revision”.
I would like a clarification on something.
“The main role for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is played by the same modification – the addition of a second piece of silicon on the CCD chiplet with the CPU cores”
Is this line referring to the extra silicon for the 3D V-cache? Or the modification that only the other 2 7000 X3D chips have of a second CCD on the processor?
Yes, the cited quote refers to a chip with 3D V-cache.