AMD Ryzen R5 1600X & 1500X Review - TechPowerUp

[PlayStation 2]

Guess who's gonna upgrade to the R5 1500X sooner or later?

I need it. I'm rocking a fucking FX-4100.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Where the hell are the 1400 and 1600 benchmarks tho . I wanna know how they OC so that we can see whether they're worth buying over the "X" variants...

Of course it is, who doesn't like RGB stock coolers? 

[Guest]

Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

Guess who's gonna upgrade to the R5 1500X sooner or later?

I need it. I'm rocking a fucking FX-4100.

Not me, I am broke af

[Okjoek]

Sweet! I wonder if I should compromise and get a 6 core...

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Morgan MLGman said:

I don't know why there's no 1600X & 1500X benchmarks thread but let's make one!

 

 

Battlefield 1:

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Tomshardware.com:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-5-1600x-cpu-review,5014.html

 

 

Sorry for not sniping will do later on pc. I thought BF1 utilizes more cores? 

[DocSwag]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Of course it is, who doesn't like RGB stock coolers? 

?

 

None of the R5 CPUs have rgb stock coolers  

[Guest]

Just now, DocSwag said:

?

 

None of the R5 CPUs have rgb stock coolers  

Craaap

[Mr.Meerkat]

29 minutes ago, Soonercoop21 said:

Wow those min fps counts are all over the place. I just hope r5 can claw back enough market share to get AMD back in the game. I suspect Intel will be hitting back hard next year so I'm not too hopeful it will work out in the end.

?? How are they all over the place?  

Ryzen>more cores=better minimums in games that can utilise more cores

Intel>faster cores=better minimums in games that like less cores. 

 

edit: This reminds me, as many people feel that once the avg is high enough, minimums become more important so can be debunk that AMD CPUs aren't as good as Intel's for gaming? Yes, they do worse in averages in basically everything but hey, better Minimums in half of the games TPU tested  (or at least OP posted 4 for intel, 4 for AMD). 

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Sorry for not sniping will do later on pc. I thought BF1 utilizes more cores? 

WHY ARE YOU QUOTING IN THE FIRST PLACE?  

[AresKrieger]

14 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Which is only happening thanks to AMD pushing the standard, if Intel could game alone we'd have flagship i7 on 4c/8t forever, so yes I'm very satisfied with these recent changes on the market.

Well to be fair to intel they had no reason to increase it since they didn't have much in terms of competition, increasing performance in that manner is more costly and limited (eventually adding more cores does nothing), and coders barely utilize their current CPUs fully. 

 

Basically until something changed intel had no reason to stop coasting.

[kalnick]

36 minutes ago, Urishima said:

I am still running a Phenom 2 X4 955 BE, so anything is an upgrade at this point

MY Phenom II 975BE is still getting the job done.

looks like there is no price break compared to intel

 

I was hopping ryzen 5 woud be my upgrade path also but early cnd pricing has me rethinking that. Amazon.ca has the 1400 at $304 cnd. You can get the 6600k and 7600k for 300-320 cnd lately even less then $300

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2017 by kalnick

[Herman Mcpootis]

i'll just add this here:

mostly on par, 1500x trades blows with the 7500 and the 1600x trades blows with the 7600k, but ryzen is better at multitasking.

 

with the prices:

1500X + cheapest am4 board:

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: ASRock AB350M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Other: R5 1500x ($189.99)
Total: $259.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-11 10:30 EDT-0400

1600(you can overclock it to 1600x speeds)+am4 board:

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: ASRock AB350M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Other: R5 1600 ($219.99)
Total: $289.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-11 10:30 EDT-0400

i5 7500+cheapest lga 1151 board:

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($188.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus H110M-E/M.2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($46.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $235.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-11 10:32 EDT-0400

i5 6600k(oc and should be the same as the 7600k)+ cheapest z170 board:

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($219.98 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock Z170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($92.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $312.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-11 10:34 EDT-0400

so, compared to the 1500x and 7500, the 7500 combo will be around $20-30 cheaper compared to the 1500x while the 1600 would cheaper than the 6600k by $20-30 and you still have to factor in a cooler for the 6600k. it's the end for the 6600k and 7600k, but if you can't spend abit more for the 1500x the 7500 is still okay, just that you lose out on overclocking and the much better multitasking.

[Morgan MLGman]

2 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

SNIP

It's posted in the original post, I said that I'll be updating it Many more sources added.

[Herman Mcpootis]

5 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

It's posted in the original post, I said that I'll be updating it Many more sources added.

saw it, i just took forever to type in that post 

[MyName13]

Amazing, everyone is benchmarking r5 1400 and 1500x with 32000mhz memory and i5 7500 with 2400mhz memory, so fair.

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, MyName13 said:

Amazing, everyone is benchmarking r5 1400 and 1500x with 32000mhz memory and i5 7500 with 2400mhz memory, so fair.

Yeah, because it's completely legit to benchmark the i5-7500 with 3200MHz RAM if only Z270 chipset supports it and nobody pairs a locked i5 with Z270 chipset (because those motherboards are a lot more expensive than B250/H270 ones)...

 

And since highest RAM speed that B250 and H270 chipsets support is 2400MHz, why wouldn't it be what they pair locked i5s with?

[Scionyde]

Not bad. I'll still probably get a 7700k for myself, but the PC parts I'll be buying for my little brother might have a 1600x

[MyName13]

1 minute ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Yeah, because it's completely legit to benchmark the i5-7500 with 3200MHz RAM if only Z270 chipset supports it and nobody pairs a locked i5 with Z270 chipset (because those motherboards are a lot more expensive than B250/H270 ones)...

 

And since highest RAM speed that B250 and H270 chipsets support is 2400MHz, why wouldn't it be what they pair locked i5s with?

Because 1400 and 7400 have similar price and these benchmarks don't tell the truth, do you really think that people who buy these CPUs can afford super fast ram?

[ivan134]

1 hour ago, Castdeath97 said:

Okay one thread says they are terrible another says they are good. I'm getting confused....

Look who made the other thread

[Gaming_Groove]

19 minutes ago, MyName13 said:

Because 1400 and 7400 have similar price and these benchmarks don't tell the truth, do you really think that people who buy these CPUs can afford super fast ram?

The price is the same for a 16GB kit of corsair lpx 2400 and 3000 on Amazon US. 3200 is about $15 more. Compared to the cost of a board that can support those memory speeds on the Intel side, the price difference is negligible. The ability to support higher speed memory on lower cost boards is an advantage of the platform that should be factored in to reviews. 

[Castdeath97]

33 minutes ago, MyName13 said:

Because 1400 and 7400 have similar price and these benchmarks don't tell the truth, do you really think that people who buy these CPUs can afford super fast ram?

The cheapest 3200MHz 4GB*2 kit costs 17 more USD than the cheapest 2400MHz kit 4GB*2 in the US.

The cheapest 3200MHz 4GB*2 kit costs 14 more GBP than the cheapest 2400MHz kit 4GB*2 in the UK.

 

That is basically nothing!

[ivryk]

1 hour ago, Morgan MLGman said:

I don't know why there's no 1600X & 1500X benchmarks thread but let's make one!

 

I won't describe what those CPUs are, I think all of us know it... For clarity:

Ryzen R5 1500X - 4 Cores / 8 Threads, 3,5GHz Base / 3,7GHz Boost clocks, 189$ MSRP

Ryzen R5 1600X - 6 Cores / 12 Threads, 3,6GHz Base / 4,0GHz Boost clocks, 249$ MSRP

 

Techpowerup released reviews of both of those, full links:

1600X : https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Ryzen_5_1600X/

1500X : https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Ryzen_5_1500X/

 

 

Taught by my previous thread with 1800X benchmarks, I'll just get straight to the point, GAMING!

 

Battlefield 1:

Civilization VI:

Hitman:

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided:

Rise of the Tomb Raider:

Fallout 4:

The Witcher 3:

Sniper Elite 4:

 

 

And very interesting results here with Minimum FPS charts:

There are games in which the R5 lineup offers A LOT better minimum framerates compared to the competition, however there are games in which it isn't as good:

 

And now, performance summary at different resolutions:

CPU Tests:

 

1080p:

 

1440p:

 

4K:

 

 

TPU's opinion:

 

Personal opinion:

Value for money of those CPUs is just incredible. Judging from this review, i5s are a terrible purchase at their current prices right now...

I agree with everything quoted right above.

 

This is what most people have been waiting for, not the R7 lineup.

 

Sadly, platform setup issues are still present and configuring an AM4 platform properly is still too complicated for what it should be...

 

P.S. Post other benchmarks here as well! I will keep the original post updated.

 

UPDATE:

LTT's Ryzen 5 video:

Hardware Unboxed:

Hardware Canucks:

Paul's Hardware:

Gamer's Nexus:

Joker Productions:

Anandtech:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11244/the-amd-ryzen-5-1600x-vs-core-i5-review-twelve-threads-vs-four

 

Tomshardware.com:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-5-1600x-cpu-review,5014.html

 

pclab.pl (in Polish):

http://pclab.pl/art73682.html

 

Glad there's competition but this ( Techpower up's ) review of the R5 lineup seems a bit shady to me, just look at Linuses review, the i7 beats all the Ryzen chips and all of the sudden here, the i7 gets smoked? same goes for the minimums just check Gamer Nexus, he shows the lows and are NO way near the numbers showed here.

[TorqueS]

USE SNIP FFS. 

 

EDIT:on topic.

---Still watching reviews---

[Castdeath97]

2 minutes ago, ivryk said:

Glad there's competition but this ( Techpower up's ) review of the R5 lineup seems a bit shady to me, just look at Linuses review, the i7 beats all the Ryzen chips and all of the sudden here, the i7 gets smoked? same goes for the minimums just check Gamer Nexus, he shows the lows and are NO way near the numbers showed here.

Remove the images and videos from the qoute or just don't qoute the OP, he is following the thread so he gets the notification anyway.

 

You are killing people with shitty internet and mobile phones (think of the scrolling!).

[Mr.Dingle]

Hmm .. is it worth selling a 4690k ( and mobo + ram ) , for a 1600/X / 1700/X + motherboard ( and ram ) ? Gaming primary , but could use them extra threads ..