The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review: Twelve Threads vs Four at $250
by Ian Cutress on April 11, 2017 9:00 AM ESTBenchmarking Performance: CPU Legacy Tests
Our legacy tests represent benchmarks that were once at the height of their time. Some of these are industry standard synthetics, and we have data going back over 10 years. All of the data here has been rerun on Windows 10, and we plan to go back several generations of components to see how performance has evolved.
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802Shaun - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Just a friendly correction: It should be "200% more threads" instead of 300% more. Thanks for the article!Ian Cutress - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Updated :)ChristopherF - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Wouldn't 300% be correct since 12 is 3x 4?mickulty - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
It has 300% of the threads, but has 200% *more* threads.buri - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Your logic is correct if you say "3 times", but with percentages you always refer to the % amount more. In this case is 8 threads more, so 200% of 4 threads. 6 threads more would have been 150% more, and so onMobiusPizza - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
It's either 200% MORE threads or 300% the original thread count.ddriver - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Nice to see AMD not only back in the game, being competitive in trivial computing workloads, but also offering TWICE the value where PERFORMANCE really MATTERS - rendering, encoding, compiling and other time intensive workloads.MajGenRelativity - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Indeed it is. I recently built a PC with a 1700X, and my friend said it was a massive improvement over his old FX 6350SquarePeg - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
I'm wondering how low AMD's pricing will go on R3 chip's if they can bring a 4C/4T low end R3 to market for $99 that can overclock decently then the FX 6300/6350 will have a true successor.MajGenRelativity - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
That's also something I'm interested in. Right now it reaches down to $170, which is still in the upper mid-range, but if it can go even further down, I'd be pretty happy with it.