1500x vs 1600

[lacrosse903]

I have both a 1500x and a 1600 right now. I can either return the 1600 which I bought yesterday for trouble shooting or try and sell 1500x on Craigslist or somewhere. Which one should I keep?

I do video editing and some other coy intensive stuff just wondering if it's worth the extra $50 or so

[just_dave]

1600

[pelark]

1600 if you're doing anything at all outside games. 

[Thinkfreely]

1600, the whole X (extended frequency range) technology is not worth it in the slightest.

[RileyTheFox]

4 minutes ago, Thinkfreely said:

1600, the whole X (extended frequency range) technology is not worth it in the slightest.

XFR is on all chips. The X is just a different SKU.

[AnalogCanavity]

1600

[Thinkfreely]

1 minute ago, EvilCat70 said:

XFR is on all chips. The X is just a different SKU.

Please link source material for that, because XFR is what the x stands for for 1800x, 1700x, 1600x, etc. 1600, 1400, 1200  don't have that enabled. They all have boost, but XFR is not boost.

[Columbo]

1 minute ago, Thinkfreely said:

Please link source material for that, because XFR is what the x stands for for 1800x, 1700x, 1600x, etc. 1600, 1400, 1200  don't have that enabled. They all have boost, but XFR is not boost.

takes too long to find source material for XFR. Basically you get an extra 100mhz if the AMD processor detects exotic cooling such as liquid cooling. 

[Thinkfreely]

2 minutes ago, Columbo said:

takes too long to find source material for XFR. Basically you get an extra 100mhz if the AMD processor detects exotic cooling such as liquid cooling. 

I know, I am agreeing with you. I was telling Evilcat that not all Ryzen CPU's have XFR. XFR is not "boost" its a different technology that takes advantage of temps, and I think he thinks XFR and boost are the same. So I was asking if he has any source material saying all Ryzen CPU's have XFR, because they don't, just X models.

[just_dave]

@Columbo @Thinkfreely @EvilCat70

Afaik, the precision boost or how is it called is present everywhere and if it detects a proper cooling, it will push the chip high, thats how my R5 1600 is getting 3700 MHz dual core and 3.4GHz all cores. The XFR will push it even higher, usually the -Xs are higher binned

[RileyTheFox]

6 minutes ago, Thinkfreely said:

Please link source material for that, because XFR is what the x stands for for 1800x, 1700x, 1600x, etc. 1600, 1400, 1200  don't have that enabled. They all have boost, but XFR is not boost.

 

1 minute ago, Thinkfreely said:

I know, I am agreeing with you. I was telling Evilcat that not all Ryzen CPU's have XFR. XFR is not "boost" its a different technology that takes advantage of temps, and I think he thinks XFR and boost are the same. So I was asking if he has any source material saying all Ryzen CPU's have XFR, because they don't, just X models.

 

[Guest]

51 minutes ago, pelark said:

1600 if you're doing anything at all outside games. 

Even gaming there is a boost from going with the 1600 as many titles use 6 cores now most just don't notice on graphs cause Intel's per core performance is 15% higher and often running at a much higher clock speed making the 1600 look like its only using 4 cores or less. 

[Thinkfreely]

57 minutes ago, EvilCat70 said:

 

 

Thank you, this is what I needed

[SlaughterSmurf]

3 hours ago, lacrosse903 said:

I have both a 1500x and a 1600 right now. I can either return the 1600 which I bought yesterday for trouble shooting or try and sell 1500x on Craigslist or somewhere. Which one should I keep?

I do video editing and some other coy intensive stuff just wondering if it's worth the extra $50 or so

Keep the 1600. 2 cores and 4 threads extra is worth the slight tradeoff in clockspeeds even if you aren't overclocking. 

[pelark]

13 hours ago, jdwii said:

Even gaming there is a boost from going with the 1600 as many titles use 6 cores now most just don't notice on graphs cause Intel's per core performance is 15% higher and often running at a much higher clock speed making the 1600 look like its only using 4 cores or less. 

PUBG is the only title I know of that officially has support and optimizations for 6 core CPUs

[Guest]

9 hours ago, pelark said:

PUBG is the only title I know of that officially has support and optimizations for 6 core CPUs

BF1, BF4 has even supported 6 cores i tested this myself by using process lasso performance goes down when i lock it to 4 cores instead of 6. Also even gta5 will use the extra cores not saying it uses them well. Watch dogs 2, Mafia 3 and many more i even think a lot of RTS games started using more then 4 cores. 

 

Reason people don't notice is over IPC+frequency being so good on Intel so having the extra cores only gets Amd closer and they beat the I5 for now. 

[PhaseShift]

Keep the 1600. It's a great value chip the likes of which we have not seen in years  .