AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6-Core CPU Benchmarks Look Impressive For $259 Part

The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X is expected to be a 6-core, 12 thread processor that has a 3.3 GHz base clock, a 3.7 GHz boost clock and topped off with 16 MB of L3 cache and 3MB of L2 cache for around $259 USD. This is the fastest 6-core processor in AMD’s leaked Ryzen series lineup and it is likely to be a popular model due to the price point and the fact it’s a 6-core unlocked processor (x34 multiplier and 100 MHz bus clock). The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X also has a 95W TDP rating, which isn’t too shabby.

Some new benchmarks of this processor have surfaced online from Asia that have certainly gotten our attention that use CPU-Z v1.78.1 x64’s built-in benchmarking utility that show some rather fantastic numbers.

How does a single thread score of 1,888 points and a multi-thread score of 12,544 points sound to you? An Intel Core i5-6600K Processor (3.5GHz base / 3.9GHz boost) on our test system scored 1,981 points on the single-threaded test and 7,717 on the multi-threaded tests. The Intel Core i5-6600K is priced at $235.99 right now, so the single threaded-performance of these two processors are pretty close to one another. The multi-threaded score is actually more than 1,000 points higher than an Intel Core i7-7700K overclocked to 5.1 GHz with the DDR4 memory on that system running at 3,100MHz (our other Intel numbers below were with the memory kit at 2666MHz)!

The leaked AMD Ryzen 5 1600X numbers are mighty impressive for what could be around a $259 processor as the single-threaded performance isn’t half bad and the multi-threaded performance is pretty damn good. The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X numbers could be fake or done on an early engineering sample an run on a board that isn’t optimized yet, so these are all things that we need to keep in mind. The exact clock speeds for the leaked numbers is not known. It makes you wonder how the Ryzen 5 PRO 1600, Ryzen 5 1500, Ryzen 5 PRO 1500, Ryzen 5 1400X, Ryzen 5 PRO 1400, Ryzen 5 1300 and the Ryzen 5 PRO 1300 will perform as those are the other Ryzen 5 series processors that will be coming to market that cost less than the Ryzen 5 1600X. We’ve been hearing rumors that Ryzen’s SMT (simultaneous multi-threading) is turning out to be more efficient than Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology and this could very well be the case. That would be a big marketing bullet for AMD if they can manage to pull that off!

While writing this news story we got an e-mail that just moments ago CPUID released CPU-Z 1.78.3 that has improved Ryzen architecture support. We haven’t tried it yet, but that may drastically change the results for better or worse. We don’t have a Ryzen 5 1600X system here, so maybe the person that leaked the numbers can update and run the benchmark again!

In other news we ran across an AMD Ryzen part number decoder that looks to be close to being accurate on Reddit. The decoder doesn’t identify what the ‘I’ represents in the part number for the AMD Ryzen 5 1600X for example: ZD3301BBM6IF4_37/33.

The hype for AMD is building and the launch is rumored to be less than two weeks away. Let’s hope AMD Ryzen can live up to the hype!