Intel should be very worried about AMD's Ryzen 7 processors

pparks1 said:

there will be a 12 core for $1,000 and that is what the enthusiasts will be drooling over.

Where? Where can I buy one?

And then we'll be dumping them for the new 16 cores. It'll never end

I've still got a Pentium II chip somewhere in my garage. Wonder if pparks wants it :)

Drew, that would be fun too. If you have a board too, maybe I could overclock it to 500 MHz.

Unfortunately I got rid of the board years ago. This is yet another box of old PC parts no longer relevant.

I remember some years back I tried to build a Win 98 machine. Was much harder than I thought with finding drivers and compatible hardware/software. Was fun for a minute until issues started popping up all over the place

See, I knew pparks would have a few ancient systems up and running. Probably worked the IT department on Atlantis before they went under

BTW if you look at my Win 98 link you'll see a photo of a Pentium 3 :)

For the photographers out there using Photoshop, and/or Lightroom (me), and may be thinking about upgrading to Ryzen, Puget Systems did some initial tests with the 1700X Ryzen chip. Unfortunately they didn't have an 1800X to test at the time so take this with a grain of salt....

Ryzen 7 1800X results are currently only placeholders! Other hardware reviews have shown the 1800X to be consistently ~5% faster than the 1700X, but we were not able to have a CPU available for testing prior to AMD's launch. We have a CPU on the way and will update this article with actual 1800X results in the coming weeks.

with that...

Really, the true test for Ryzen is how it compares to the Intel Core i7 7700K since that is currently the best CPU available for Photoshop. Unfortunately, Ryzen simply can't keep up with the i7 7700K which is both cheaper and significantly faster (around 23% on average). So if you are looking for a Photoshop workstation, we would advise you to skip Ryzen and stick with the Intel Core i7 7700K.

Source: Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 AMD Ryzen 7 1700X & 1800X Performance

It's basically the same with Adobe Lightroom (minus the 1800X). Anyway....

Overall, Ryzen is unfortunately not a great choice for Lightroom. If you are concerned about general Lightroom performance, the Intel Core i7 7700K is significantly faster for most tasks and only 10-15% slower when exporting images. At the same time, if you do care about export times then the Intel Core i7 6850K is ~40% faster at exporting images along with being ~15% at everything else in Lightroom. Considering that Ryzen is also either slower or comparable to these two Intel CPU options in other programs like Photoshop, Intel CPUs are a pretty clear winner for photo editing and image processing workstations.

Source: Adobe Lightroom CC 2015.8 AMD Ryzen 7 1700X & 1800X Performance

Again, these are initial results and don't include the 1800X; however, the 1700X was tested so.... That said, I do wish Puget would have held off until they actually had an 1800X to test as well.

rogerwilco91 said:

How much is Photoshop's performance on Intel over Ryzen is due Adobe optimizing for the Intel platform for Photoshop and/or Ryzen not really being as efficient (hardware-wise) against Intel's 7700K?

Uh, yeah, that's what's being said. However this doesn't make the other players in the game cheaters. It simply means AMD's chips aren't ready yet. It's not like companies are intentionally "crippling" AMD's chips.