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Yep, TechSpot again. His results with SKL-X is consistently lower than every other review. Nothing to see here, move along.

They used the 1800X OCed @ 4.0 results in the Skylake X tests. So you can compare it against 7740x, 7800x, 7820x, and 7900x. They omitted Ashes & RoTR results for Ryzen since they haven't retested...

That isn't a fair assumption. Their comment on setup was specific to X299 since it was an an X299 review. But I did my due diligence, the details are in their Ryzen 1800X review. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-amd-ryzen-7-1800x-review "GSkill stepped in to provide one of...

Eurogamer used 4 sticks on X299 which is appropriate. They did not say what they used on Z370. It could have been 4 sticks or 2 sticks. 3rd review is hardware.info. So where are the reviews that back up TechSpot's results?

That helps, I wasn't aware Ryzen had problems with that. I think it would have been better to test with 2x8 for Ryzen and 4x8 for SKL-X but I'm not the reviewer.

Its not intentional but that is the way Boost 2.0 works. You mentioning it as if it some type of anomaly and why the results favored the 7800x is not correct and when that is exactly how it should perform. I'm proving that TechSpots results are inconsistent with every other review out there...

Not sure I understand the point you're trying to make. They used the same high quality ram for both platforms. SKL-X CPUs should be benched with quad channel because it makes the most sense to run it that way.

I saw that mentioned in the review but it doesn't matter. Unless there is some temp or power issue the Intel chips never use the base clock during gaming and they'll be running at Turbo 2.0 speeds for all cores all the time anyway. Also the 7800x only gets Boost 2.0 to 4.0ghz and it was compared...

You don't need to test 30 games to see that the results don't quite match the other sites. Here are results of the same games from two other sites except they put the 7800x versus the 1800X instead of the 1600...

The Techspot review seems to be an outlier compared to other sites that has benchmarked SKL-X. No other site has results as poor for the 7800x as this one. I think Digital Foundry has the best and more comprehensive gaming focused review of SKL-X so far. They compared the 7740x, 7800x, 7820x...

Put this on a different thread but I think gets pretty close to your answer. I didn't have a 1070 in SLI but I had a pair of 980 Tis in SLI and the two are very close and comparable. I upgraded to a 1080 Ti last week. I was very skeptical of making the change because on paper it should be a side...

Got the EVGA Hybrid variant of the 1080 Ti early last week and I've been pretty impressed so far. Changed up from two 980 Tis in SLI. I was very skeptical of making the change because on paper it should be a side grade but in practice it was a solid upgrade even on games with decent SLI scaling...

I have high hopes for the liquid cooled models but the reference blower will certainly be garbage.

Anyone else think that AMD's silence regarding performance suggests that Vega won't be faster than GP102? If AMD knows that Vega is be faster I think they would have said something to keep people interested and waiting. With zero products in the high end they aren't risking cannibalize sales by...

Hmmm, good point. Well I know Vega and Polaris are different, but they are designed by the same company, on the same manufacturing process, and with what appears to be a pretty similar architecture as previous GCN cards. Though to your point, GCN 5.0 is new so maybe we could see something like...