Rendering Performance – Ryzen 7 7700
We will now take a look at how rendering performance compares.
Cinebench R23
In Cinebench R23 we are pushing all the cores as fast as possible, and when added up, with the lower clock speeds on Ryzen 7 7700, it does perform 7% slower than the Ryzen 7 7700X. PBO brings back a lot of that performance though, and brings performance right at Ryzen 7 7700X performance. It adds 5% more performance.
While multi-core is slower, in single-core performance the Ryzen 7 7700 isn’t that much slower. The Ryzen 7 7700 is only 3% slower than the Ryzen 7 7700X, and PBO doesn’t help as we’ve seen.
Blender Open Data Benchmark
Take note, the Blender Open Data Benchmark has changed, it now runs 3 scenes and spits out a “Samples per Minute” number, where higher samples are better.
Blender puts all the cores to work, and just like Cinebench we see that the Ryzen 7 7700 is 6% behind the Ryzen 7 7700X. PBO claws back a lot of performance, adding 5% more performance.
We see the same result in the junskshop scene. The Ryzen 7 7700 is 65% slower than the Ryzen 7 7700X and adding PBO increases performance close to the 7700X.
In the classroom scene, the Ryzen 7 7700 is 7% slower than the Ryzen 7 7700X and PBO adds more performance.
V-RAY 5 Benchmark
In V-Ray 5 the Ryzen 7 7700 is 7% slower than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Turning on PBO increases performance to nearly Ryzen 7 7700X performance.
HandBrake
We are going to test HandBrake performance encoding a 10-minute video using two different media formats, H.264 and AV1 on the CPU only. Remember, we are looking for the lowest time to encode here, the lowest result is the better one.
In this first test, we are rendering using the Creator preset at 2160p60 4K H.264 preset on a 10-minute video which was recorded at 1440p, therefore it is upscaling the video. Our test shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X does the encoding in less time, which is faster at 16.35 minutes/seconds. The Ryzen 7 7700 is slower and adds a little more than a minute to the render time. However, turning on PBO does help a lot and reduces render time down.
In this test, we are testing the new AV1 codec in the Fast 2160p60 4K AV1 preset, which is upscaling the video to 4K. As the time to render is longer, the difference widens between the CPUs. We see that on Ryzen 7 7700X it takes 54 minutes, but it takes 57, almost 58 minutes on Ryzen 7 7700, an increase of 4 minutes. For long renders, this time adds up. However, once again, turning on PBO does improve performance a significant amount.