AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Linux Benchmarks: Great Multi-Core Performance For $329

[Michael]

Could you re-test with SMT disabled? I wonder how mach it gains from SMT.

As mentioned many times in various articles, the BIOS of the board used doesn't offer any option.

[Amarildo]

Have those 30 minutes been measured by running PTS (Phoronix Test Suite) on your machine?

Nope, just straight up compiling a full Kernel, measured while looking at what time the compiling started and when it finished.

[juno]

Many stream and record gaming, so core count does matter.

You shouldn't make a decision based on something that fixed function hardware everyone already owns does way better. Streamers use NVENC, QuickSync, VCE or even dedicated recording hardware, grabbing the video signal.
Also, newer games utilise more and more threads, taking away the headroom for "free" software encoding. You consider an 8 core for actual usage, like in applications or more modern games. Not for streaming with software encoding while playing old games.

[andrei_me]

Michael any perf per watt from Ryzen 7? The 1700 seems to have the best perf per watt running at 65W against the 95W of 1800X