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June 2017
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The editors liked
Remarkable multithreaded performance
More core and threads than the competition
1600X on par with a stock i5 7600K in gaming
The full-featured AM4 platform
Excellent value for money
Ryzen platform is very stable now
6-cores
12-threads
Fully unlocked
Comes with CPU cooler
Great performance compared to Intel's i5-8400
Low price
Bundled cooler
Unlocked multiplier
Six cores and 12 threads for half the price of Intel's similarly outfitted Core i7-6800K
Consistently topped pricier Core i7-7700K on tests that take advantage of all available cores
Cooler included in the box (unlike with the Ryzen 5 1600X)
Beats Intel 7500 and Intel 7600K in multi-threaded apps
Features SMT/HTT (which competing Intel Core i5 quad-core chips lack)
Single-threaded performance improved over previous generation
Heatsink included
Platform updated to incl
Comes With SMT Which Core i5 CPUs Lack
Outstanding Performance
Fully Unlocked
Can Easily Be OC'd to 4Ghz+
Perfect For Multi-Tasking
Future-Proof Platform
Great Price/Performance Value
Runs Very Cool
The editors didn't like
Questions remain over gaming performance
Some early adopter quirks linger
Overclocking not as strong as Kaby Lake
Gaming performance still lacks
Single-threaded performance is still behind Intel
Performance in lightly threaded applications
Memory overclocking
1080p gaming and single-core performance still lag behind comparable "Kaby Lake" chips
Gaming frame rates lower than competing Intel chips
Higher power draw than Intel CPUs
Memory frequency options and memory compatibility limited
Published: 2017-05-10, Author: stefan , review by: madshrimps.be
The Ryzen 5 1600 CPU does arrive with notably lower core clocks and 30W lower TDP versus its 1600X brother, all other technical specifications remaining the same. While we can see a small performance drop with the Ryzen 5 1600, both CPUs seem to share sim...
Published: 2017-05-08, Author: Mark , review by: arstechnica.com
Remarkable multithreaded performance, More core and threads than the competition, 1600X on par with a stock i5 7600K in gaming, The full-featured AM4 platform, Excellent value for money
Questions remain over gaming performance, Some early adopter quirks linger, Overclocking not as strong as Kaby Lake
To truly talk about the bottom line when it comes to the AMD Ryzen 5, we need to look at its product stack and pricing.Now let's look at where the Intel 7600K and 7700K are priced. That would be $239/$249 and $346 respectively. While we did not bring Inte...
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Published: 2017-04-11, Author: Ian , review by: anandtech.com
We have already shown in previous reviews that the Zen microarchitecture from AMD is around the equivalent of Intel's Broadwell microarchitecture, but at this lower price point we have AMD's Zen against Intel's Kaby Lake, which is two generations newer th...
Published: 2017-04-10, Author: Patrick , review by: servethehome.com
In the Ryzen 5 line-up, this is the one to get. It has 6 cores and the larger Wraith Spire cooler all for only $50 more than the Ryzen 5 1400. While $50 may seem like a lot in nominal dollars, by the time a complete system is built, it is a few percentage...
Abstract: I'm going to start this article off with a simple number: five. Not only is that the number of months it has taken AMD to effectively turn the x86 processor world on its ear, but that's also the number of distinct model families that they've introduced...
Looking back at how things played out over the course of this review, I have no doubt it will be one of the most hotly debated articles that I've written in the last few months, maybe even the last year. There's no denying that the Zen architecture has pr...
The Ryzen 5 1600 from AMD retails at a very affordable price and it actually beats the Intel 7500 & 7600-K when it comes to multi-threaded apps; it also features HTT / SMT which the competing chips from Intel lacks. It's also really good that their proces...
The Ryzen 5 CPUs are solid CPUs and are extremely competitive at their price points. However, if you are looking for a CPU to do it all at one price point, that probably isn't going to happen. At one price point, Intel might be better at gaming but worse...
