AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Performance Review – Alternative Medium Processor With 6 Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 is a CPU for several user segments. One of them, for those who plan to build for the first time a PC Gaming and or PC for professional purposes such as video editing and 3D images. This market was previously dominated by the lowest Intel core i7 series to Intel core i5 unlocked (K) version. Because of this, the price gap offered by AMD, especially for the Ryzen 5 1600, was “deliberately” set to disrupt the market. Then what will you get from Ryzen 5 1600 compared to the lowest caste core i7 or highest caste intel core i5?

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 . Specifications and Price

Looking at the specifications and price of the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 above, on paper, this CPU has advantages in the number of cores, namely 6 cores 12 threads, where even the Intel Core i7 7700K only offers 4 cores 8 threads. In addition, AMD Ryzen 5 1600 has L2 Cache 2X times the Intel core i7 7700K (16MB vs 8MB). But are these two advantages of Ryzen 5 really proven in the real world?

Supporting Specifications

Then how do you get the maximum performance of AMD Ryzen 5? Of course it requires other supporting hardware, especially RAM. The Ryzen 5 1600 supports dual-channel DDR4 up to a frequency of 2667MHz. Keep in mind, because AMD Ryzen 5 1600 is a new CPU, it takes the widest possible information to find suitable RAM. Then, in order to accelerate the “imagined” quite large CPU power, of course it takes a graphics chip that is also capable of making it the main brain of a Gaming PC. AMD Ryzen 5 1600 offers 24 lanes of PCI Express gen 3 which is allocated to 16 lanes for Graphics (PCI Express GPU Card), 4 lanes for chipsets, and 4 lanes that are flexible to be allocated as highspeed NVMe storage or external SATA.

Test Bad

MSI Radeon RX 570 Gaming X

Geil Evo X DDR 4 3000Mhz 16GB Kit

This time, of course, we used 2 RIG configurations. One for Intel testing, one for AMD Ryzen testing of course. First Aorus X370 motherboard, 16GB pc 3000MHz RAM and AMD Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 GPU for AMD side (Stock Cooling) and MSI Z270 motherboard, Geforce GTX 1070 GPU and 16GB RAM (Watercooling). Ignore the watercooling, because we only took quick samples, not endurance that was done for hours.

Performance Test AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Here AMD can applaud the Ryzen 5 1600’s transcoding capabilities that outperform the i7 7700K. When running standard or without increasing the clockspeed, the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 is able to match its performance against the i7 7700K.

– CineBench R15 Single Thread

AMD Ryzen 5’s lower clock speed makes it impossible to catch up with the performance of the i7 7700K in the single thread test of Cinebench R15. We’re not really good at overclocking, but if you’re brave, maybe you can still catch up a bit with the i7 7700K’s achievements as in the table above.

– CineBench R15 Multi Thread

The multi-thread Cinebench test applies the opposite, again showing the strength of this AMD Ryzen 5 1600 against the Core i7 7700K which is indeed losing in the number of cores and threads. Especially when the Ryzen 5 1600 runs at a base clock of 3.2GHz against 4.5GHz. But again, this has not been proven in its entirety. Let’s move on to the next benchmark.

– 3D Mark Vantage CPU

We usually use this subscription benchmark to take GPU performance scores only. But this time, we take it in terms of CPU performance only. Again, the red Ryzen 5 1600 is quite far ahead of the i7 7700K which has a price tag of 1.8 million more.

– 3D Mark Time Spy

Futuremark added Time Spy for trial use of dx12. Here the performance of Intel core i7 7700K is very well utilized. Mainly because of the high clockspeed.

3D Gaming Benchmark AMD Ryzen 5 1600

This time, we don’t use Resident Evil 6 to look for the gaming performance of these two CPUs. We will immediately use dx12-based games which are more suitable for use because the latest games will be dx12-based. Even though the GPU card that we use is AMD Radeon, which has been predicted to be even more optimal when running 3D instructions based on Vulkan Mantle.

– Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

– FALLOUT 4

The two games that we use above are not enough to issue a statement that AMD Ryzen 5 has a strong chance as an alternative CPU which is much cheaper than the Intel core i7 7700K. But at least, we can see that AMD has succeeded in making Ryzen, including this Ryzen 5 series, as an alternative processor that is very, very worthy of consideration.

Power Consumption

With the same fabrication, which is 14nm, AMD Ryzen also offers a more efficient IPC (Instruction per Clock). Here, we further test how much it consumes electrical power which results in overall power usage efficiency. With a higher number of cores, ensuring that this AMD Ryzen 5 1600 cannot possibly be more power efficient than the Intel core i7 7700K. Both when idle, and full load. For more details, check the table above.

Conclusion

Through this article, pemmzchannel tries to convey that AMD Ryzen 5 is already good enough for professional activities, also for gaming. We hope that the constraints on RAM support can be resolved as soon as possible by AMD if they still want special attention from motherboard manufacturers. As is known, AMD often patched, it also forced motherboard manufacturers to revise their products. In fear, they will have to do a mass recall if they finally find a problem that can’t be solved through the BIOS.

The power consumption is still good considering the number of cores offered. With the performance coming out, indeed, the heat from AMD Ryzen 5 is definitely higher than the Intel Core i7 7700K. But with the budget that you can save, we believe, it’s still enough to buy a standard water cooler like the many on offer today. So, if you really don’t need a lot of features that you don’t even use, it’s worth considering the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 as the CPU for your first workstation.

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