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

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: 2102 vs 1575
• 4.7x better performance in 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 2102
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	3366 15661

Compare specifications (specs)