Review: AMD Ryzen Beats Intel’s Core i7-6900K! Learn How!

Ahead of its official launch, a leaked review reveals that AMD's Ryzen CPU will be better than the Intel Core i7-6900k. The review was conducted by the French magazine Canard PC based on an engineering sample sent to the press.

After running a number of programs on both processors at 3.3 GHz, technicians found that Ryzen has an impressive power consumption rate of 93W compared to the Intel Core i7-6900K's 96W, Tweak Town reports. The review was done with a base of 3.15 GHz and boost clock speed of 3.3 GHz, even though AMD earlier announced that Ryzen will have a clock speed of 3.4 GHz and leave room for overclocking.

When it comes to running games, including old ones like Battlefield 4 and GRID: Autosport, the AMD Ryzen's performance was not as good. Tweak Town notes, however, that the results are not optimized and that the motherboard sample is still an early version with low clocks.

Another good feature of the AMD Ryzen is that its thermal design power or TDP - the amount of heat a computer component generates - is under 100W, according to Windows Central. In contrast, the TDP of Intel's i7-6900K is 140.

AMD has been working to enhance Ryzen's efficiency by enabling it to monitor temperature and voltage readings. As a result, Ryzen can work at its optimum with available cooling.

The Ryzen CPU also takes longer to overheat because of Precision Boost, which uses a granularity of 25MH and makes the final clock speed of each core accurate. For computers with enough cooling, Ryzen can be pushed further through its extended frequency range or XFR.

Based on AMD's SensMI technology, Ryzen has 20 MB of cache space, with 16 MB being shared by all cores. It is composed of eight cores and 16 threads. AMD has not yet disclosed Ryzen's turbo speed details, but experts expect a maximum turbo frequency of 4 GHz.

The AMD Ryzen is set for release in the first quarter of 2017. Check out the leaked review below.