The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review: Twelve Threads vs Four at $250

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• vladx - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

  Yes as someone with both a 7700k system and a 1700X system I can safely call myself unbiased as I hold no special loyalty towards any brand.

• Cooe - Monday, March 1, 2021 - link

  Liar liar, pants on fire lol.

• cryosx - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

  they were testing against the direct competition (i5s) and the rest of the ryzen family. Makes sense, though I guess having the i7s in would be a nice touch.

• Nightsd01 - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

  "[Ryzen] has 50% more cores and 200% more threads"
  
  Wouldn't it be 300% more threads? 12 threads is 3x more than 4

• Outlander_04 - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

  200% MORE

• cvearl - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

  Curious what method on GTAV was used. I get in the 70's at those settings on my RX480 all VH settings on an i7 2600k.

• ianmills - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

  Dolphin benchmarks still missing!

• Notmyusualid - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link

  @ianmills
  
  I was looking for them too.

• msroadkill612 - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

  Ryzens tough for cheapskates. its a nice cheap 4 core, but gee, for so little more u get a 6 core 1600.

• msroadkill612 - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

  zen is just amds first act.
  
  The second is naples - gluing multiple ryzens together using their excellent new plumbing.
  
  The third is vega (gpu has long been amdS focus - in a10apuS e.g.).
  
  The last and seismic act, is a ccx with a single zen core block of four cores & same 4mb l3 cache, and a vega gpu, possibly with hbm2 vram.
  
  Its not very new ground for them. its very similar to the architecture solutions needed for the a10.
  
  Incidentally, i heard a great debate about "dark coding?".
  
  coders love using the gpu for compute when they can, cos it shifts heat away from stressed processors. cooler processors can then run faster. IE, they try and shift the load around the circuitry to avoid generating hot spots.
  
  The conclusion omitted to say "if u consider pc software static.... Then buy intel"
  
  new generation and paradigm, or the last tart up of the old generation. Your choice.
  
  There are of course wins and losses by both, but we know that we are measuring the best of the old, with the lowest point of the rapidly improving new. (see ashes of singularitytweak)
  
  & as above, its just act 1 now.
  The authors haughty dismissal of amdS top am4 chipset features is outrageously deceptive (as said in posts here).