![]() The architecture has been fabbed at a more efficient and optimized 14 nanometer FinFET process, rather than the 32 nm and 28 nm processes of previous AMD FX CPUs and AMD APUs, respectively. Well, actually I need to elaborate even a little more - to make matters a little more complicated, the codename for today's released 8-cores (16 threads) processor is in fact "Summit Ridge". As you guys have learned over the past few months, the 8-core Summit Ridge processor series from AMD is also the first Ryzen based product series released to the desktop consumer market. Zen was initially the development codename for the new architecture, and as such we should probably drop that name immediately and move to Ryzen. The eagle has landed and we’re very happy to present you guys with our second Ryzen review. Note: the basic content in this article remains the same as in the 1800X article, but obviously we swapped out the 1800X for the 1700X photos and content wise. In this review we'll also be looking at gaming SMT on/off performance to see if that will boost gaming performance a bit better. And while this new platform still might have a thing or two that needs to be fixed, the series oozes value. After our first review we already have been able to establish that the Ryzen 7 series offers tremendous multi-threaded performance for the money. In this review we'll be looking at the Ryzen 7 1700X processor, this little brother of the 1800X is 100 USD cheaper, yet offers close to the same performance, including very similar tweaking characteristics. Will a 100 bucks cheaper CPU offers close to similar 1800X performance?
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