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Core i7 7700K vs. Ryzen 7 1800X With Ubuntu 17.04 + Linux 4.12

The Ryzen 7 1800X continues to dominate in the heavily threaded open-source Linux workloads tested.

While GraphicsMagick uses OpenMP for multi-threading, it isn't able to scale well to 16 threads and thus the i7-7700K performance is much closer.