Bang4Buck and Bang4Watt
The performance benchmarks on the previous pages tell part of the story, but it is always fun to add some Bang4Buck metrics into the mix. Do be aware that there are many methods of calculating such results - different benchmarks will skew the outcome, and prices can both fluctuate daily and vary wildly depending on region.
We've chosen to use the multi-threaded Cinebench R20 test as a basis for our results, and pricing was taken from Newegg.com, or SRP pricing, as on July 4, 2019.
These scores simply divide the Cinebench R20 score by the dollar price or SRP. The Ryzens are top because they offer excellent performance and keen pricing.
This graph divides the same Cinebench result with the system-wide power consumption we observed during evaluation.
Massive leads for the Ryzens because of the combination of excellent performance married to excellent efficiency. Ryzen 7 3700X carries the same number of cores and threads as Ryzen 7 1800X but pulverises it in this metric.
This metric takes 14.51 as the ceiling for Bang4Buck, and 35.06 for Bang4Watt, and combines them into a weighted score where a maximum score of 2 is possible. The Ryzen 3rd Gen CPUs perform very well here, as expected.
They won't perform quite as well in, say Blender or HandBrake, but there's little denying the improved performance and efficiency of these new chips.