AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU Review Published

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A couple days ago we told you about a YouTuber that published a review on an AMD Ryzen 5 series CPU, the Ryzen 5 1400. Today, a review of the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 processor has been published online by a Spanish language site called El Chapuzas. The site claims they are not under and embargo and can publish all the data that they want.

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Processor

The AMD Ryzen 5 1600 is a 6-core, 12-thread 65W processor with a base frequency of 3.20 GHz and tops out at 3.60 GHz when running in Turbo mode. The site tested the Ryzen 5 1600 with the following hardware:

  • MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium
  • G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 3600MHz @ 2400MHz
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming Z
  • be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 1200W
  • SSD Kingston SSDNow KC400 128GB
  • SSD Corsair LX 512GB

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 x264 Benchmark

In the x264 benchmark the site was getting 35.84 FPS on the second pass and that was just ahead of the Intel Core i7-7700K processor and behind the Intel Core i7-5930K.

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Cinebench R15 Benchmark

In Cinebench R15 the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 scored 1123 points in the multi-CPU benchmark and that was enough to put it ahead of the Intel Core i7-7700K processor in this particular benchmark.

Ryzen 5 1080P Gaming Benchmarks

When it comes to 1080P Full HD gaming benchmarks the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 did pretty good on the 5 game titles the site tested and the Ryzen 5 processor was pretty competitive with the Intel Core i7-7700K as you can see in the chart above.

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Overclock

The site was also able to overclock the Ryzen 5 1600 up to 3.9GHz.

AMD Ryzen 5 Processor Pricing

The AMD Ryzen 5 1600 is priced at $219 and will be released on April 11th, 2017. El Chapuzas has benchmark results on CPU-Z, wPrime, Cinebench, x264 encoding, AIDA64 and a number of game titles, so grab yours translator and head on over if you want to see more!