ryen 5 many of you have been waiting patiently or impatiently for its big
debut something which we stop what stop
you're going to get wrecked look at these
comments what is this who are you H I'm
I'm you from the future if you release
this simulation of AMD rise and performance everybody's going to hate
you simulation what simulation I've Got ryzen 5 right here no oh you don't
understand I just wait this is the
review Great Scott I've got to go I set
the dial
wrong welcome then to our ryzen 5 review
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AMD is aggressively targeting Intel in
terms of core count and pricing packing
Enthusiast features into their CPUs in order to undercut Intel's Core i5 and
core i7 with their appropriately named ryzen 5 and ryzen 7 CPUs whether they
succeeded or not we'll address a little bit later because first we need some
boring technical details both ryzen 7 and ryzen 5 which
launches today come with two of what AMD
calls CPU complex or
CCX which is four processing cores
attached to 8 Megs of high-speed cache
these CC X units communicate with each
other over an allnew bus that AMD calls
Infinity fabric the difference between
them is that ryzen 5 comes with two or
four individual cores disabled through a
process called binning whereby faulty or
underperforming cores are shut off then
the chip is sold at a lower price so if
we line up our ryzen 5 and ryzen 7 CPUs
we can see that our 1600x is basically a
cut down 1800x while our 1500x is
probably a cut down 1700 with tweaked
clock speeds what's unusual about AMD's
approach here though is that they've disabled the cores symmetrically to make
hex core and quad core models the
disadvantage is that the quad core model
may suffer some performance penalty for
not having all of its cores on the same
CCX but the advantage is that every
ryzen 5 gets a massive 16 megabytes of
cash and all the other features are
there too Precision boost xfr
simultaneous multi-threading neuronet
inspired Branch prediction so when you start to think about it then
how many cores do you really need and if
the answer is any fewer than eight then
ryzen 5 starts to sound like a really
good way to save a few bucks let's talk
about the test AMD included an MSI b350
Tomahawk motherboard in our testing kit but we used our Crosshair 6 hero instead
for the sake of consistency and on that subject we actually re tested all of our
AMD chips with the latest BIOS revision
and a new kit of g-skill flarex RAM
which means that we are finally able to give you guys results at ddr4 3200
speeds woo this along with the rest of our test
stable should give us a great picture of
how ryzen 5 Stacks up for extra credit
we also tested our ryzen 5ivs with a 4
GHz overclock the best that we could achieve on both of the chips with air
cooling oh and uh by the way our simulated 1600x we threw that in there
too let's kick things off with gaming
thanks to their native overclocking support both of our ryzen 5 chips
managed to pull off some impressive numbers next to their team blue
competitors although it is worth noting that the
7600k can overclock two games like rise
of the Tomb Raider and doom in open mode
tend to devour instructions per clock giving our Intel benches a lead unless
we overclock on ryzen which sometimes
actually accounts for some major gains in performance here now that's weird
what gives with Team blue your cash is
generally going to remain at the same speed unless you overclock it separately
but as it turns out ryzen's cash just
loves getting as much CPU time as it can
which favors their Infinity fabric connected CCX architecture along with
their High Core counts so with many
cores and higher clock speeds AMD's cash
actually becomes more efficient how do we know because when we compared cash
benchmarks between our stock and overclocked chips we found major
improvements thanks to our overclocks that look in line with the differences
between the two chips core counts I mean
overclocking our 7700k we saw performance fluctuate a bit
but nowhere near this much so this seems
to explain some of what we're seeing here in these gaming
tests good news for AMD fans looking to overclock then because overclocking adds
to multiple perform performance metrics
speaking of which in our synthetic tests we can see that ryzen continues to
dominate Intel's mainstream platforms when it comes to multi-threaded
Performance what's even more interesting about these results however is that the
ryzen7 1700 frequently ends up matched
by our overclocked 1600x which becomes all the more
impressive when you consider the performance per dollar that this
translates to thanks to the $80 price
difference between the two chips speaking of performance per dollar team
red and team blue are neck and neck in
this all important metric a small as
side here by the way if you've been paying attention our simulated ryzen
5600 x has also kept up very well with
our real 1600x finally let's talk about thermals
something we weren't able to simulate now that we're equipped with AMD's
wraith Max and wraith Spire coolers we
can test our ryzen 5 chips with both stock and aftermarket cooling so for
Giggles we threw our spire on our overclocked 1600x and managed to
maintain our performance at reasonable
if unexceptional temperatures so aftermarket cooling is still recommended
for overclocking even on ryzen's four
and six core variants which leads us to
our conclusion then since its launch
AMD's new platform has been changing
almost daily we're constantly learning
new things about how it does perform how
it's supposed to perform and why and
with ryzen 5 AMD's future becomes much
clearer thanks to software and firmware
updates that continue to improve ryzen's
performance and stability with these numbers and pricing Intel may be
starting to sweat a little bit remember too that we used an x370 board but you
could save a fair bit on the platform overall by stepping down to b350 if you
don't need SLI or even lower if you don't plan to
overclock now to be clear ryzen doesn't
overclock like crazy the platform bugs
aren't quite fully ironed out and it still isn't the clear of Far and Away
performance King that a lot of people wanted it to be but what they have done
when you factor in the entire Suite of tests is deliver just as much bang for
the buck as team blue right now and that
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