Hello everyone
I would like to ask about about which processor is the most fit for CAD work. The i7-7700K offers unparalleled performance in single-threaded operations, which the widely found case in CAD/CAE. However, besides the extra cores which the Ryzen 1600X (or 1700X) offer, it offer significantly more cache. As far as I know, CFD is affected by the amount of cache and data transfer speed (between cache level and speed of the RAM). However, I do know how much that effect is, and I have no info on how multithreaded the simulation in Solidworks is.
Besides Solidworks, I will be running some CFD simulation in Ansys Fluent/CFX, and maybe MATLAB, Scilab & OpenFoam.
So, should I bet on high single-threaded performance, or on 16mb L3 & 3Kb L2 Cache in Ryzen (Vs 8mb L3 & 256Kb L2 Cache on i7-7700K) ?
A good overclock may improve the performance of both CPUs, but the difference will still be there. What do you think folks ?!
I would like to ask about about which processor is the most fit for CAD work. The i7-7700K offers unparalleled performance in single-threaded operations, which the widely found case in CAD/CAE. However, besides the extra cores which the Ryzen 1600X (or 1700X) offer, it offer significantly more cache. As far as I know, CFD is affected by the amount of cache and data transfer speed (between cache level and speed of the RAM). However, I do know how much that effect is, and I have no info on how multithreaded the simulation in Solidworks is.
Besides Solidworks, I will be running some CFD simulation in Ansys Fluent/CFX, and maybe MATLAB, Scilab & OpenFoam.
So, should I bet on high single-threaded performance, or on 16mb L3 & 3Kb L2 Cache in Ryzen (Vs 8mb L3 & 256Kb L2 Cache on i7-7700K) ?
A good overclock may improve the performance of both CPUs, but the difference will still be there. What do you think folks ?!