Is AMD or Intel’s architecture faster? Zen 2 vs. Coffee Lake showdown
We’re three generations into AMD’s venture back into the high-end CPU market with its Zen architecture, recently marked by the release of AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 3000 processors. With each new µarch the gap between it and Intel’s processor performance lead closes that little bit more, and none having a more pronounced affect on the market than Zen 2.
But will AMD’s 7nm chiplet design be able to face down Intel on equal footing and finally level the playing field in the red team’s favour after years of Bulldozers, Excavators, and Piledrivers all attempting to do just that? To find out, we’ve decided to pit Zen, Zen+, Zen 2, and (Skylake iterative) Coffee Lake against one another to see which one emerges from the gladiatorial arena that is our graffitied test bench brandishing the sandy entrails of its vanquished foes.
For this experiment we’ll be opting for four eight-core, 16-thread processors: three from AMD and one from Intel. These will be the Ryzen 7 1800X, Ryzen 7 2700X, Ryzen 7 3700X, and Core i9 9900K. Aside from clock speeds and architectural tweaks, these chips represent an even match-up, and we’ll be clocking each chip down to 3.5GHz to ensure there’s no frequency funny business going on during benchmarking.
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