Power Consumption, Operating Temperatures

Looking at power consumption when testing with Ashes of the Singularity, we run into that the 2700X only increases total organization consumption by 4% when compared to the 2600X, it also only used 2% more than than the 8700K. Now the Cadre i7-8720X looks bad here using 15% more ability than the 2700X but remember it was fourteen% faster as well, so performance per watt is really much the same in this title.

Overclocking only increased the ability depict for the second-gen Ryzen CPUs by a small margin, half dozen% for the 2700X for example. The 8700K saw total system consumption increase past 18% making it less efficient in one case overclocked.

The 2700X and 2600X once once more consumed a similar corporeality of power, this fourth dimension when testing with Far Cry v. They were basically on par with the 8700K but used less power than the Skylake-X parts. So in this title the second-gen Ryzen CPUs were much more efficient than the 7820X and 7800X.

Overclocking didn't have a huge touch on on power draw for the second-gen Ryzen CPUs though it did see the Kaby Lake and Java Lake CPUs swallow loads more ability.

For our Blender workload the 2600X used roughly the same corporeality of power equally the 8700K while the 2700X was on par with the 7800X. Overclocked, the second-gen Ryzen CPUs consumed around 20% more than power, which is a lot better than the almost 60% increase seen when overclocking the 8700K.

The 2700X pushed organization describe 9% college than the 1800X and it only reduced the encode fourth dimension by 4%. Interestingly though, the 2600X consumed just 10% more than ability than the 1600 but was able to reduce the encode fourth dimension by 16%. In terms of operation per watt, the second-gen Ryzen CPUs were comparable to the Skylake-X 7820X and 7800X in this title.

Operating Temperatures

The Ryzen 5 2600X performed had very reasonable temperatures out of the box using the provided Wraith Spire cooler. While gaming you tin expect temperatures to hover between 50 and lx degrees, assuming y'all have a well ventilated example. Information technology's worth noting that the fan was repose throughout these tests and overclocking had little bear upon on temperatures when gaming. However, we did see a massive increase for the heavy Blender workload and after an hr the CPU peaked at 90 degrees.

The 2700X gets the fancy new Wraith Prism cooler and while more than substantial than the Spire, temperatures climbed higher when paired with the eight-core CPU. Out of the box, the Prism allowed the 2700X to striking 64 degrees in our game test and 92 degrees for the Blender stress examination. Needless to say, the Prism couldn't handle our overclock. Gaming wasn't besides bad but the max load test with Blender saw the thermal limits reached and frequently caused the overclock to fail.

Strapping on the Corsair H150i Pro solved this outcome and reduced the Blender load temp downwardly to 81 degrees which is reasonable. Gaming temperatures now dropped below 60 degrees too. Then overclockers volition want to upgrade the cooler and I'll explore more cost effective options in a time to come article.