Testseek.co.uk have collected 348 expert reviews of the AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 3.6GHz Socket AM4 and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 3.6GHz Socket AM4.
April 2017
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The editors liked
Best price vs performance Ryzen chip to date
6-Core w/ 12 Threads
AM4 Platform and features
XFR overclocking
Easy to manually overclock
Beats out many more expensive Intel products
Great for gaming/streaming
Strength in heavily threaded workloads
Superior pricetoperformance ratio for budget workstations
Unlocked ratio multiplier
Awesome multi-core performance
Strong gaming performance
Cool running chip
Superb multi-threaded computational performance that obliterates the Core i5-7600K
Multi-threaded performance makes the i7-7700K and i7-6800K look like poor value for money
Plenty of spare computational capacity for game streamers
Power consumption num
Cheapest six-core chip available
Competitive gaming performance
Strong productivity value
Intuitive overclocking software
The editors didn't like
None
Neutral
Memory latency is still a little high but it has improved since Ryzen launched
“If you’re eager to invest in Ryzen but don’t need the more expensive 8-Core R7 chips
Then the 1600X is the best that R5 has to offer. It’s perfectly suited to
High price relative to Core i57600K
Lower overclocking headroom
Tricky overclocking
Gaming performance is not as strong as Intel's competition
Which is disappointing for this market segment
Kaby Lake competition has significantly better single-threaded performance
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Performance, B350 platform, Single threaded performance, Better than FX
Overclocking limited to 4.0GHz
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Solid Multi-Core performance, 1600X is close to 1700 in performance, Both are suitable for gaming, 1600X is also a good option for content creation, New AM4 platform, wide range of motherboards available, Great Value for money at the current prices, Good
Overclocking with the Wraith coolers was limited
Ryzen 5 exceeded my expectations and the 6 core/12 thread 1600X presents a real dilemma for enthusiast gamers given how closely it performs to the Ryzen 7 1700. The 1600X will almost certainly fill the requirements of an enthusiast who games 70% of the ti...
The Ryzen 5 CPUs are pretty much what we expected; slight enhancements in software/microcode with similar multi-core performance that scales with core count and frequency compared to Ryzen 7. At similar price points to Intel's offerings, the multi-threade...
