Testseek.com have collected 275 expert reviews of the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz Socket AM4 and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz Socket AM4.
June 2017
(88%)
275 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(98%)
62 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
880100275
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
