AMD Athlon X4 850 vs AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon X4 850 and AMD Ryzen 7 1700X processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, 3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon X4 850

  • Around 3% higher clock speed: 3.9 GHz vs 3.8 GHz
  • Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
Maximum frequency 3.9 GHz vs 3.8 GHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 95 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

  • CPU is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 4
  • 12 more threads: 16 vs 4
  • Around 6% higher maximum core temperature: 95°C vs 90°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 1048576x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2101 vs 1575
  • 4.7x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 15661 vs 3366
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 March 2017 vs Jul 2015
Number of cores 8 vs 4
Number of threads 16 vs 4
Maximum core temperature 95°C vs 90°C
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
L1 cache 768 KB vs 256K
L2 cache 4 MB vs 4MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2101 vs 1575
PassMark - CPU mark 15661 vs 3366

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon X4 850
CPU 2: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1575
2101
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
3366
15661
Name AMD Athlon X4 850 AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
PassMark - Single thread mark 1575 2101
PassMark - CPU mark 3366 15661
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 896
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 6027
3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score 4244
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 23.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 54.736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.172
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 3.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 13.361

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon X4 850 AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Essentials

Architecture codename Godaveri Zen
Launch date Jul 2015 2 March 2017
Place in performance rating 1620 1614
Family AMD Ryzen Processors
Launch price (MSRP) $399
OPN PIB YD170XBCAEWOF
OPN Tray YD170XBCM88AE
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Price now $199.99
Series AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop Processors
Value for money (0-100) 21.56
Vertical segment Desktop

Performance

Base frequency 3.2 GHz 3.4 GHz
Die size 245 mm² 192 mm
L1 cache 256K 768 KB
L2 cache 4MB 4 MB
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 90°C 95°C
Maximum frequency 3.9 GHz 3.8 GHz
Number of cores 4 8
Number of threads 4 16
Transistor count 2,411 million 4800 Million
Unlocked
64 bit support
L3 cache 16 MB

Memory

ECC memory support
Supported memory types DDR3-2133 MHz, Dual-channel DDR4
Max memory channels 2
Supported memory frequency 2667 MHz

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1 1
Sockets supported FM2+ AM4
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 95 Watt
Thermal Solution Not included

Peripherals

PCIe configurations Gen 3, 16 Lanes, (CPU only)
PCI Express revision 3.0 x16

Advanced Technologies

AMD SenseMI
Enmotus FuzeDrive
Extended Frequency Range (XFR)
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)
Fused Multiply-Add 3 (FMA3)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions
The "Zen" Core Architecture

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)