AMD Ryzen 5: Leaked Test Results Poses Good Competition Over Intel Counterpart
Other leaked test results show that the upcoming processor from Advanced Micro Devices, the Ryzen 5, has once again proven to be good competition over its pricier Intel counterpart.
The Spanish technology news site El Chapuzas Informatico recently revealed what they learned from test results comparing the upcoming Ryzen 5 1600 with other Intel CPUs.
To be clear, the Ryzen 5 is not officially out in the market yet, and reports say that El Chapuzas Informatico's tested products were not sent by AMD as well. They also did not have to sign a non-disclosure agreement so the test results were made public. Tech Report also assumes that the Spanish news outlet was able to acquire the Ryzen 5 1600 from a retail store that does "not respect AMD's sales date restrictions."
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The Ryzen 5 1600 promises to run at a base clock speed of 3.2-gigahertz and can also go as high as 3.6 GHz. However, since its product name does not sport the "X" mark, it means this particular chip is not equipped with the ability to automatically overclock when needed unlike its higher-end variant, the Ryzen 5 1600X.
For the test, El Chapuzas Informatico paired the Ryzen 5 1600 with memory only running at 2,400-megahertz with G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 since - as the report explained - going higher than that proved to be impossible even when manually done with the MSI A-XMP or AMP motherboards. The Ryzen 5 1600 was also assembled with a MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium motherboard and MSI GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card.
While the Intel i7-7700K had a slightly higher clock speed, the Ryzen product runs with a 6-core, 12-thread combination compared to Intel's 4-core, 8-thread. However, Digital Trends noted the fact that no available MSI firmware was available at the time of the said test since the Ryzens are not officially out yet, which means the world is still yet to experience the full capacity of the chip.
And what really sets the Ryzen ahead, apart from its competitive performance, is its much lower price. With that amount of core-thread set up, the Ryzen 5 1600 is expected to only cost $219 while Intel's i7-7700K is priced at $350.
The Ryzen 5 1600, along with other processors from the same product lineup, will be released on Tuesday, April 11.
