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

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• Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

  The main reason to buy a 7600K over Ryzen is so you can actually go above 4.1GHz. Given how easy it is to clock a 7600K at 4.7GHz or even higher, it is highly disingenuous to not include overclocked results on the graphs.

• sor - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

  I think the overclocking niche is aware that they can do better. I agree that more data is better, but I certainly don't think there's any responsibility for Anandtech to provide overclocking results for either platform.
  
  Maybe they'll follow up with a comparison on how Ryzen 5 overclocked compared to the competition.

• Meteor2 - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link

  How much does OC'ing help? Presumably not at all with gaming unless you're on a 1080 or higher, and how does it help multi-threaded production workloads?

• Notmyusualid - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link

  My thoughts exactly - my buddies' 7600K runs 24/7 @ 5GHz, on a 240mm closed loop rad.
  
  It was the snappiest computer I've yet used...

• dhotay - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

  *shoo-in
  
  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoo-in

• Achaios - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

  "We have already shown in previous reviews that the Zen microarchitecture from AMD is around the equivalent of Intel’s Broadwell microarchitecture"
  
  I don't think so, Ian. Case in point:
  
  1. Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz- 4.50 GHz Turbo (KABY LAKE): 2,595 MARKS PASSMARK SINGLE THREADED
  2. Intel Core i7-6950X @ 3.00GHz- 3.50 GHz Turbo (BROADWELL): 2,135 MARKS PASSMARK SINGLE THREADED
  3. AMD 1800X 3.6 GHz - 4.0 GHz Turbo(RYZEN): 1,952 MARKS PASSMARK SINGLE THREADED
  
  Out of curiosity, I benched my own 4770k at 4.5 GHZ, the frequency I game on:
  
  4. Intel 4770K 3.50 GHz - 4.53 GHz OC (HASWELL): 2610 MARKS PASSMARK SINGLE THREADED
  
  http://imgur.com/FrHmYlG
  
  It's not even the bloody equivalent of Haswell, man, much less that of Broadwell.

• sor - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

  No, you're cherry picking. It's pretty well documented that IPC is about broadwell level, if you want to get into a benchmark posting war you'll run out of material far sooner. I can even find huge wins for Ryzen, but I'm not going to cherry pick those to try to show a big discrepancy.

• Achaios - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

  How about you go ahead and cherrypick to prove me wrong on Single Threaded performance. Oh now wait, you can't b/c Ryzen is slow as molasses in January.
  
  https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

• MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

  Apart from WinrAR 5.2 that's pretty slippery molasses:
  http://www.zolkorn.com/en/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-vs-int...

• fanofanand - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link

  And the cherry picking continues.
  
  "How about you go ahead and cherrypick to prove me wrong on Single Threaded performance"