The official launch date of the Ryzen is upon us (11th April). The team over at Techpowerup have just published a review on the AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 3.6 GHz. By the looks of it … I’m thinking of getting one myself!
The Ryzen 5 1600X is AMD’s flagship Ryzen 5 processor model. It comes at an affordable $250, with a base clock of 3.6 GHz. Thanks to AMD XFR it will boost up to 4.1 GHz, which helps gain single-threaded performance over Intel’s offerings. In our testing the Intel Core i5-7600K looks defeated.
… Should you pick the Ryzen 5 1600X over Intel’s offerings? Most definitely. The similarly-priced Core i5-7600K is convincingly beaten by the 1600X across the board, and the 1600X even registers wins against the much costlier i7-7700K in some tests.
Source: Techpowerup
