Tuesday, April 4th 2017
Full Review of AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Surfaces
Ahead of its April 11th launch - and before the NDA lifting - AMD's Ryzen 5 1600 has already been put through its paces in a review, courtesy of website ElChapuzasInformatico.
Some memory compatibility problems seemed to surface during the review (the website used a MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium paired with four modules of G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 3600 MHz @ 2400 MHz.) Other specs for the test system include a Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 1200W PSU, a Kingston SSDNow KC400 128 GB SSD, another SSD in the form of a Corsair LX 512 GB, and a 64-bit version of Windows 10. The six-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 1600 acts as was already being predicted - namely, as an equivalent to the more expensive, media-powerhouse Ryzen 7 1800X and the other 8-core, 16-thread processors in the AMD lineup. Other workloads will, however, be affected, due to the 2 less physical (and 4 logical) cores grunting away at any given task. I'll leave you with the pretty pictures, so you can get an early impression for yourselves.
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ElChapuzasInformatico
Some memory compatibility problems seemed to surface during the review (the website used a MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium paired with four modules of G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 3600 MHz @ 2400 MHz.) Other specs for the test system include a Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 1200W PSU, a Kingston SSDNow KC400 128 GB SSD, another SSD in the form of a Corsair LX 512 GB, and a 64-bit version of Windows 10. The six-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 1600 acts as was already being predicted - namely, as an equivalent to the more expensive, media-powerhouse Ryzen 7 1800X and the other 8-core, 16-thread processors in the AMD lineup. Other workloads will, however, be affected, due to the 2 less physical (and 4 logical) cores grunting away at any given task. I'll leave you with the pretty pictures, so you can get an early impression for yourselves.
30 Comments on Full Review of AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Surfaces
I also added my personal comment :
that killed BD for me, the lack of any decent microATX boards. Zen, ATM, is suffering from the same issue. Where are the 8 phase VRM micro boards, like the sniper M or the asus gene boards?
OOT: some of the images above are double
Just to add.
If it could hit 4.5 Ghz with reasonable vcore and power that would have been best thing ever.
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Adored TV had a comparison of Ryzen vs Kaby using nvidia's vs cross fire 480.
AMD's seems to NOT rely on single core performance as much as nVidia does, so for those with Vega/Polaris gap between Intel / AMD would be smaller (like 10% vs 30%) or in AMD's favor.
Sorry just getting so much annoyed by those who call others stupid for not buying an i5. It is starting to sound like if they are getting paid if someone goes for intel stuff...You are right, you can oc these chips up to the max advertised XFR rage (on all cores). with careful tweaking you can get from 3.9Ghz - 4.1Ghz( if you are lucky).
At 3.8Ghz you can easily under-volt the default voltages and run it really cool. It does really seem that Ryzen design is not meant to go higher than 4.1Ghz at all, and somehow it gives me the feeling that it has nothing to do with the voltage for some reasons.
When you hit the 4.0GHz the more voltage you add the more unstable it becomes regardless of how many Mhz you wanna push to.
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Link something that has some actual weight, not this junk. He's grasping at straws to say good stuff about Ryzen gaming benchmarks when the platform has far from matured, and gaming results are literally all over the place. He's just throwing random thoughts out there to score clicks.
Hoping for "insert arbitrary clock speed here" when the limits are well known already is just foolish. If they were making a different processor entirely then nobody would know what it was capable of, but it is the same chip with 1 or 2 cores disabled per CCX.
@ratirt Respectfully, if you are hoping for 4.5ghz you've set yourself up for ~400mhz of disappointment :/
Then again, you could always invest in phase change cooling, that would actually be pretty interesting.
There's been many intel lovers triggered by his vids.