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Clickbait, overclocked Ryzen 7 2700X scores the same as i7 7820X.

It's a bit different story

For about $100 cheaper..

The big news here is Intel not having a monopoly on desktop CPUs anymore. I personally remember Intel being the only serious CPU choice for building a desktop since at least 2015. Now a lot of low-medium high desktop builds are using Ryzen instead for the perf/$.

Thats because AMD basically bet the farm on the GPU replacing the FPU for doing floating point math, but never got any real traction for it on the OS level.

I'd buy that argument if they had actually showed any investment in helping that assumption come to pass. Instead, their ecosystem is a barren wasteland compared to what Nvidia has built.

> For about $100 cheaper..

More than that. An AM4 motherboard is way cheaper than Intel Extreme FCLGA2066 systems.

By the end of the day, you're $200 cheaper once you account for a completed build (motherboard, RAM, CPU) compared to a FCLGA2066 + i7-7820X system.

Really, the i7-7820X competes against Threadripper 1900X. Quad-channel memory and all that good stuff. The REAL competitor to the Ryzen 2700X is the Intel i7-8700k, which has outstanding price/performance and relatively cheap motherboards too.

Hopefully we'll see more reviewers compare these two chips. Ryzen 2700X vs i7-8700k is the real battle.

Is it overclocked though? The article says it was overclocked to 4.3GHz. But that CPU has a turbo clock of 4.2GHz [1]. So maybe a 0.1 GHz overclock at most? Or none at all? That Intel CPU has a turbo clock of 4.5GHz, so AMD beats Intel at a lower clock speed? But then I read that turbo clock only affects the two most used cores... I guess it's pretty hard to compare lol

1. https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/ryzen_2700x_spott...

That's the maximum turbo clock, which only kicks in when one or two cores are in use. Getting all cores to that speed does count as an overclock.

The max turbo (xfr) is 4.35ghz. But it rarely hits that

Sorry, please don't judge the site. This is my own title. Can you please elaborate on how is it a different story?

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