I'm on a quad-core 65 watt TDP APU so I think it's great :D
They have some Cinebench results in the article. I don't care about those but it doesn't look bad at all.

Or, buy both if you have the money.
Cheers

I've been reading LOTS about zen(ry) for months now.
I'm ASSUMING the X in the names means overclocking available,
similar to the K in Intels.
If so the extra 100 bucks is for .2 ghz, I'll just overclock the 1700x
Been running an I7 2600K at 4.2 ghz for 5 years now (liquid cooled)
Before I jump in though,
wondering if anyone has seen the server chip prices.
they are going to 32 cores (64 w HT).
Even if that was around 3 ghz, or even 2.5 that's a LOT of WCG Crunching!

Jack007,

Actually, ALL Ryzen CPUs have unlocked multipliers. The ability to overclock one therefore depends on the motherboard chipset. AM4 motherboards have five different chipsets: A320 (basic budget boards), A300 (same as A320 but specifically miniITX), B350 (mid-range, multiplier-unlocked, other system tuning limited), X370 (top-end boards, multiplier-unlocked and full tuning available), and X300 (same as X370 but specifically miniITX). The "X" in the CPU names designates whether or not XFR (eXtended Frequency Range) is enabled, which allows the CPU to sense the thermal environment it's in and automatically adjust its frequency, even beyond the base frequency (basically auto-overclocking; time will tell how effective this is). No "X" = no XFR. X-series chips also run at a higher 95W TDP and are just generally binned higher than their non-X counterparts, which will likely result in a better overclocking experience.

As for Naples, we have very little official information about those as of yet, but Dr. Su of AMD said they're supposed to be coming in Q2 of this year. The only frequencies I can find on that (unnamed) SKU come from here: http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-naples-server-cpu-vega-gpu-platform/

The chip only has a base clock of 1.4GHz, but it turbos respectably to 2.8GHz, presumably on a single core. I have no idea what kinds of frequencies we would see on an all-core load like WCG, but I'm interested to find out, as well as to see if any ES's show up on eBay once they're released.