AMD Ryzen 5 1500X and 1600X review
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vbetts
Moderator
I feel like I may have jumped the gun too quickly lmao.
lexer98
Nice review ! please if is possible upload some overclocked gaming results.
3200mhz memory not possible ?
Jagman
Great review as always Hilbert.
(you might want to correct the use of 7 instead of 5 in a lot of the tables, before anyone notices, oops!)
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Ahw frack!
schmidtbag
And just as I predicted - the 1500X has a nearly (but not literally) negligible performance difference compared to the 1700 in gaming performance.
Good to know - that's what I wanted to get all along, but I'm glad this proved my point that we don't need anything more for the time being. I couldn't care less about getting beyond 60FPS, so any latency issues are irrelevant to me.
Looks like I know what I'll be buying next!
AlmondMan
The R5 1600 (non-X) might be the best purchase for longevity. 4c8t is a bit old-ish atm.
Seikon
Why did you used Rise of the tombraider dx12 , when it's a known fact dx12+nvidia card's run bad on ryzen for some reasson , specialy RoTB
mattm4
The 1600x has killer performance for the price, but like before, bet the 1600 non x will yield the same performance once overclocked. AMD did great on that chip. My buddy wants to do a build, and is not wanting to spend a lot. 1600 is gold for him!
Cheers for great review Hilbert!
vbetts
Moderator
Looking at results though it's funny, only a few fps difference where real world you will not notice a difference and it's 4 threads less. So what does that saying about Ryzen 7 and application support...?
schmidtbag
Until consoles move beyond 8 cores, an 8-threaded CPU makes for a healthy minimum. When you go beyond 1080p, the GPU is the bottleneck, in which case having more cores still isn't going to help a whole lot. The 1600's lower clock speed currently puts it at a greater disadvantage for gaming purposes than the 1500X. By the time games can take advantage of 12 threads in a way that offers you performance you need, you'd be better off buying a new system anyway.
Of course, those who do stuff such as recording/streaming while gaming would have more of an interest in the 1600 or 1600X. I personally run little to nothing in the background (no music player, no AV, no recording stuff - nothing) so the 4c/8t is plenty sufficient for me. I won't be doing any production work on this PC either, so any non-gaming benefits are irrelevant to me.
EDIT:
I completely agree. In many cases, you can even remove another 4 threads and most games will still be playable. I have said from the very beginning that Ryzen 7 is not and wasn't intended to be for gamers. Though, it is undoubtedly the best-valued workstation CPU, if PCIe lanes and memory bandwidth aren't a top priority (obviously those are legitimate limiting factors to some people).
Bentez
An OC'd 1600X seems like such great value coupled with a B350 board. Its just a shame that DDR4 prices are where they are, especially for the higher frequencies that Ryzen loves.
You have to pry my R7 from my cold dead hands but R5 6 core looks like the sweet spot for an all-rounder system. I would avoid that quad core personally..
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Now what kind of **** reviewer would I be if I left out results just because they perform better or worse on Brand A versus B? Mate, the idea of a review is to provide you guys objective data and analysis so that you can see performance and features from many angles, hence you can make a decisive and informed purchase / decision.
SirDremor
Brasky
Why this site continues to thrive year after year.
Noisiv
And DX11+NV+Ryzen runs faster than DX11+AMD+Ryzen.
What now
DarkLiberator
1600X seems like insane value.
Valken
Like others have said OC 1600 looks like the killer value here, but that 1500x OC'ed is even better since the cpu + mb price is the same or less than a quad core Intel i7 cpu!!!
This just freaking amazing value for the kids or anyone who games and not need more than 4C/8T! It is totally overkill for bog office work too!
Just incredible! AMD is back big time!
I would have loved to see max OC for both 1500x/1600x on LCS for academic reasons.
Hilbert should just have a king of gaming shootout with Ryzen vs i7-7700k all OC'ed and valued on price.
PrMinisterGR
The 1600x looks like the "right" CPU for any person wanting to have a new and fast CPU without giving an arm and a leg. I can't believe it gives 12 threads and is basically priced as an i5. As an all-arounder is a no brainer.
I would still go for the 1600 and OC it, same for the 1700.
EDIT: When is AMD fixing the offset thing? It's really making these CPUs look worse, while they're actually extremely cold chips.
Loophole35
Damn pretty much 6850K performance for $400 less across the board.
vase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0SxpGzbw0
They OC'd it to 5.9Ghz on LN2 already.
