AMD Ryzen 5 7600 processor review
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vestibule
Single thread performance looks pretty darn good.
Valken
Not a bad 4K game CPU actually...
Horus-Anhur
AMD should have released these parts months ago. But greed is a cruel mistress.
Now even the old Zen3 CPUs are outselling Zen4, several times over.
toffty
Horus-Anhur
Undying
Performance is superb for the price. I was thinking getting one with some b650 board. Ram prices have gone down as well
H83
Undying
GamerNerves
I think these non-X CPUs are great, quite efficient. The platform cost is closing an appealing price range. This year many R5 3600 and lower tier CPU owners will upgrade to the R5 7600, which seems to be the best gaming CPU given the upgradability, since i5-13400 doesn't equal same greatness as i5-12400 this time, because all locked chips below the i5-13600 have less cache and not that high clocks, and some say they are actually Alder Lake parts, though can anyone confirm this?
i5-13400 will rock as the i5-12600K, which is still a true beast, but alas, it won't be that exciting if you really don't yearn for the four E-cores - there is simply no reason to choose it over R5 7600 at this point. Heck, for builders of a new PC, even if it would be 50 € cheaper, would you really choose it over R5 7600, since you will be stuck on that LGA1700. I'm not sure what I would choose in such scenario, but in any case the R5 7600 seems to be the workhorse of value oriented PCs of this year, far into the future.
allesclar
Really impressive results.
Yes I am happy with my Ryzen 5600 and for only £130. But the 7600 really does give a good solid ground maybe for a next build on a budget?
sykozis
cucaulay malkin
sykozis
cucaulay malkin
the pro-p is very good for the money.
GamerNerves
@sykozis I actually referred to new system builders in my post, so please read carefully, but even if considering just upgraders, here are my calculations (Prices from Finnish shop Jimm's, 11.01.2023. There are often slightly better deals in other stores, but the mentioned is the most popular):
Acceptable motherboards with eight USB slots:
Gigabyte B650M DS3H - 199,90 €
Gigabyte B660M GAMING X DDR4 - 171,00 €
A decent DDR5 memory kit:
Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) FURY Beast, DDR5 5200MHz, CL40, 1.25V - 91,00 €
CPUs, though the other one without iGPU:
Ryzen 5 7600 - 279,90 €
Intel i5-13400F - 254,90 €
For resale reference, you can get 30 € for a common kit below:
Corsair 16GB (2 x 8GB) Vengeance LPX, DDR4 3200MHz, CL16, 1.35V - 57,90 € (new)
199,90 + 91 + 279,90 - 30 = 540,80
A tad steep, mostly because of the motherboard, and the CPU could be cheaper too, but the upgradability is a major factor in this comparison, because we can assume that six-core CPUs of later generations will be blazing fast in games, while Raptor Lake, no matter how many cores you get, will not keep up, though they are fast enough far into the future as said, just like even an R5 5600 will be, so why not buy that if budget is tight?
171 + 254,90 = 425,90 | The difference: 540,80 - 425,90 = 114,90
Your argument is quite valid here, but this general calculation here shows that your numbers are still quite far off from reality even without resale, I dare say wherever you live. This more realistic price difference is certainly something one could consider to pay to get that greater platform and of course DDR5 RAM, since Raptor Lake tests are usually done with DDR5, which means they are not as fast with DDR4 as in the benches.
Certainly not an obvious decision, but R5 7600 is not out of the question even for upgraders who mainly game on their machine. With 60 € less costs, the R5 7600 would be in my opinion clearly the more appealing choice, again, for gamers.
sykozis
Airbud
Undying
Why would anyone buy a dead platform? Slapping a 13900k in the future compared 7800x3d or even 8800x is not even close. AM5 will last much longer.
Im just about to build new amd system and i dont even see another option tbh.
Airbud
Undying