Wednesday, March 15th 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 Series Lineup Leaked
Over 12 hours ahead of its unveiling, Guru3D accidentally (timezone confusion) posted some juicy details about AMD's exciting Ryzen 5 desktop processor lineup. What makes these chips particularly exciting is that they occupy several sub-$250 price points, and offer the kind of gaming performance you'd expect from the larger 8-core Ryzen 7 series chips, since not a lot of games need 8 cores and 16 threads. The Ryzen 5 series will launch with two 6-core, and two 4-core SKUs, all four of which feature SMT (simultaneous multi-threading), and unlocked base-clock multipliers.
The Ryzen 5 series is topped by the Ryzen 5-1600X, priced at USD $249. This 6-core/12-thread chip features the full 16 MB of L3 cache available on the 14 nm "Summit Ridge" silicon, and backs it with clock speeds of 3.60 GHz core and 4.00 GHz TurboCore, with the XFR (extended frequency range) feature enabling higher clocks depending on the effectiveness of your CPU cooling. This chip could be AMD's power move against the Intel Core i5-7600K. Next up, is the Ryzen 5-1600 (non-X), priced at $219. This chip lacks the XFR feature, and comes with slightly lower clocks out of the box, with 3.20 GHz core, and 3.60 GHz TurboCore. You still get an unlocked base-clock multiplier, which Intel's $220-ish competitor to this chip, the Core i5-7500, sorely lacks.
The Ryzen 5 quad-core lineup is what could wreck Intel's dual-core Core i3 lineup, and the bottom end of its quad-core Core i5 lineup, if these chips can sustain the gaming performance of its bigger siblings. These chips are carved out by disabling an entire CCX complex, leaving you with 4 cores, 8 threads (enabled by SMT), and 8 MB of L3 cache (which is still higher than Intel's 6 MB on the quad-core Core i5 parts). The lineup is topped by the Ryzen 5-1500X, priced at $189. In addition to XFR, you get clock speeds of 3.50 GHz core, with 3.70 GHz TurboCore. The most affordable Ryzen part for now, will be the Ryzen 5-1400, priced at $169. You get clock speeds of 3.20 GHz core, with 3.40 GHz TurboCore. The entire AMD Ryzen lineup, including each of the four SKUs being launched later today, will feature unlocked base-clock multipliers, making overclocking a breeze.
The Ryzen 5-1600X, Ryzen 5-1600, Ryzen 5-1500X, and Ryzen 5-1400 will be available in stores from April 11, 2017.
Source:
Guru3D
The Ryzen 5 series is topped by the Ryzen 5-1600X, priced at USD $249. This 6-core/12-thread chip features the full 16 MB of L3 cache available on the 14 nm "Summit Ridge" silicon, and backs it with clock speeds of 3.60 GHz core and 4.00 GHz TurboCore, with the XFR (extended frequency range) feature enabling higher clocks depending on the effectiveness of your CPU cooling. This chip could be AMD's power move against the Intel Core i5-7600K. Next up, is the Ryzen 5-1600 (non-X), priced at $219. This chip lacks the XFR feature, and comes with slightly lower clocks out of the box, with 3.20 GHz core, and 3.60 GHz TurboCore. You still get an unlocked base-clock multiplier, which Intel's $220-ish competitor to this chip, the Core i5-7500, sorely lacks.
The Ryzen 5-1600X, Ryzen 5-1600, Ryzen 5-1500X, and Ryzen 5-1400 will be available in stores from April 11, 2017.
64 Comments on AMD Ryzen 5 Series Lineup Leaked
lot of them (people with 7/6700K and sub gtx 1080) could go from GTX 1070 to GTX 1080 not spending a extra $ (some even from GTX 1060 /RX 480 straight to the GTX 1080... they easily wasted +300$ on top of the shelf "gaming" Mobos, "Gaming" ddr4's and what not, not to mention that i7 K to begin with) ... and their framerates (that they care about sooo much in forums and reviews) would increase like +30% on everything in a heartbeat. Prior this they could say - "well I need my i7-6700K for CPU work stuff too"... I wonder what now they will say (because that R5 will smoke that core i7 K in CPU workloads)
Try your exercise at lower price points and see what you get, with the optimum Kabylake and Ryzen and GPU. CPU + GPU budget of $100, $200, $300, $400, etc. Where does Ryzen win? If ever.
Oh well, I guess we'll see what this proves out to be in performance terms then.
www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-and-Windows-10-Scheduler-No-Silver-Bullet
But really I agree; there is still some people that like to defend Intel and just let them and ignore them because everyone (including them) knows that their arguments are getting less and less valid. This is not a religion war-starter it just can be denied what a great value for money a 1600-1700X CPU is to ALOT of people! (ALOT) Some will want the highest clock OC and some will need or "feel" they need that. (IMO alot of people seek comfort in knowing they get the extra eventhough it is simply not rational proportional to the price / situation that they are in.)
One of my mates have a 6700K clocked at 5,0 Ghz for gaming. (we game Rocket league and CS:GO); granted he gets 1600 fps instead of 1400 something FPS in csgo, but that is what we are talking about here. In new games in resolution higher than 1080p; the CPU is increasingly irrelevant as long as it does not bottleneck the GPU. In the future a 7600K will bottleneck the CPU before a 1600 so alot of people are just seing this wrong :)
Again im not trying to provoke anyone here but acknowledge your needs and others needs and one day we might come to accept that those two CAN differ and that its okay that x has a 6950X (but that y would be better of with a 1600X given his needs.)
These days there is a casual old school desktop PC user that buys an OEM rig and doesn't OC, doesn't even care what CPU is inside for that matter... and then there is everyone else who builds their own rigs as a workstation, gaming rig or something in between. The rest of the populace uses a tablet or mobile for their computer needs and doesn't even touch Intel or AMD anymore.
The casual desktop users buy CPU WITH IGP, for them Ryzen isn't even in the picture anyway.
So the primary 'mainstream' market for PC is self built or shop-built PCs and those people will definitely look at CPUs and consider whether or not an OC is worthwhile and doable for them. Ryzen won't score points there, while it is its primary target market and allows overclocking on all models...
But we're not talking about about such LCD being a good choice for gaming (that depends).
Basically, sometimes it's good to think twice about what you've put in the comment box, before you post. The remark about 5-yo $120 LCDs was a bit brave. :)
Look at GPU - there are NO OEM versions for GPUs above a GTX x60 and there haven't been since Kepler. The 70% OEM market coverage tells us very little about the high end segment.