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April 2017
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Exceptional value compared to their Intel Core i5 counterparts. Ryzen holds a clear lead in productivity performance
Though gaming performance is more evenly matched between Intel and AMD
Excellent Price
Great Performance
Quality Design
AMD is Really Back
Very Competitive Pricing (Both CPU and Board)
Very Good Multi-tasking Performance (CPU)
14nm Process Allows For Cool and Efficient Operation (CPU)
Platform Cost Low Compared To Intel's Offerings
6 Core
12 Threads In The Price Bracket of Non-Threaded
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
Strength in heavily threaded workloads
Superior pricetoperformance ratio for budget workstations
Unlocked ratio multiplier
Six cores and 12 threads for about the same price as Intel's four-thread Core i5 chips
Consistently tops pricier Core i7-7700K on tests that take advantage of all available cores
Great price for a six-core
12-thread chip
Beats even the pricier Core i7-7700K when using all cores on some tests
Strong Overall Performance
Up To 6-Cores / 12-Threads
Power Friendly
Aggressive Pricing
Convincingly beats the Core i5-7600K "Kaby Lake"
Trades blows with costlier i7-7700K in some tests
Features SMT/HTT (which competing Intel Core i5 quad-core chips lack)
Single-threaded performance improved over previous generation
Unlocked multiplier
Performance
Overclocking
Power consumption
Value
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
Power efficiency goes right out the window once you start overclocking
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Gaming Performance Not On Par With Competition
Limited Overclocking Potential on Ryzen Processors
AM4 Motherboards Not Compatible With High Speed DDR4 DIMMs (yet)
Not many applications optimized for Ryzen Processors
No integrated graphics across all R
Questions remain over gaming performance
Some early adopter quirks linger
Overclocking not as strong as Kaby Lake
High price relative to Core i57600K
Lower overclocking headroom
1080p gaming and single-core performance still lag behind comparable "Kaby Lake" chips
No stock cooler included in box
Lags behind the equivalent Intel chips for 1080p gaming
No stock cooler included
Performance Anomalies In A Few Benchmarks
Lack-Luster Overclocking In Early Stages
Gaming frame rates lower than competing Intel chips
High power draw
Memory frequency options and memory compatibility limited
Convincingly beats the Core i5-7600K "Kaby Lake", Trades blows with costlier i7-7700K in some tests, Features SMT/HTT (which competing Intel Core i5 quad-core chips lack), Single-threaded performance improved over previous generation, Unlocked multiplier,
Gaming frame rates lower than competing Intel chips, High power draw, Memory frequency options and memory compatibility limited, Setup complicated (memory, HPET, CCX, SMT, and power profile), Overclocking barely worth it, Requires optimized apps of which
The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X currently retails for $250. Convincingly beats the Core i5-7600K "Kaby Lake" Trades blows with costlier i7-7700K in some tests Features SMT/HTT (which competing Intel Core i5 quad-core chips lack) Single-threaded performance impro...
Published: 2017-04-11, Author: Bruno , review by: reviewstudio.net
performance, overclocking, power consumption, value
AMD Ryzen 7 produced a revolution in the 8-core area, offering at least the same performance as Intel LGA2011 counterparts, but at half price. Now Ryzen 5 came to compete with LGA1151 solutions, and AMD banged Intel's head again with 1600X, a 6-core/12-th...
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Published: 2017-03-22, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
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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...
When Ryzen 7 launched there was a fair bit of controversy surrounding some of its shortcomings. Overclocking headroom was disappointing, finding the right memory was like walking through a minefield, Windows 10s power plans didnt play nice and there wer...
Performance, B350 platform, Single threaded performance, Better than FX
Overclocking limited to 4.0GHz
Here we are at the end of Ryzen Part Deux and I have to say that, for the most part, scaling the architecture down does hit on some performance points. As you might expect, the results to show and prove that dropping the core count by 50% on the Ryzen 150...
AMD's Ryzen 5 1600X is the sweet spot CPU for gamers and aspiring content creators, offering the same level of gaming performances as the 1800X for half the price...
