By Kevin Lee
It’s been less than a month since AMD revealed its flagship octo-core Ryzen processor and now it has revealed its value-packed Ryzen 5-series chips.
At the top of the Ryzen 5 heap is the 1600X, which features 6-cores and 12-threads for just $249 (about £200, AU$320). By comparison, the cheapest hexa-core processor from Intel is the Core i7-5820K, which costs $319 (£260, AU$310).
With a base clock speed of 3.6GHz and a boost of 4.0GHz, it’s also a worthy competitor to the Intel Core i5-7600K, which costs $239 (about £190, AU$310). According to Cinebench benchmark test results provided by AMD, its flagship Ryzen 5 produced a score of 1,196cb whereas the aforementioned Intel chip could only achieve 669cb.
In real life these numbers should translate to faster rendering time for producing media and better performance in CPU-intensive games like Total War: Warhammer and Cities Skylines.
Raising a family
Like AMD’s Ryzen 7 family, Ryzen 5 processors come in pairs and just below the 1600X is the Ryzen 5 1600. It’s also outfitted with 6-cores and 12-threads, but clocks in at a slower 3.2GHz and maxes out at 3.6GHz.
However, it drops the ‘X’ suffix, which means the 1600 doesn’t support AMD’s extended frequency range (XFR) …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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