AMD Ryzen 5 1600X and 1500X - light and shadow in duet | Page 10

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Summary

In the end, both CPUs could not be more different, so we want to separate our assessment for each CPU individually. The reason lies not so much in actual performance, but in the positioning of the price and the offered features in direct comparison to the competitor. But that is exactly where light and shadow meet hard, and we want to start with the dark side of power.

Ryzen 5 1500X: Neither fish nor meat

The verdict may sound harsh, but it should hit the point: too expensive as a "savings bun" and just too expensive as a challenger to Intel's Core i5 in direct comparison. The open multiplier for overclocking and SMT saves nothing, because the total performance of all tests is at the maximum level of an Intel Core i5-7500, often even a tick below it. The target group here is not the content-poduents and enthusiasts, as in the case of the eight-nucleus, but the normal average gamers and home users. You won't just encode media data or package files all day long.

However, the weaknesses in gaming as well as the low overclockability are an exclusion criterion for this target group and are not easy to discuss. For the current EIA, it will probably be tight for the Ryzen 5 1500X. It does not fill a gap in the market, nor is it the total price/performance hammer.

Ryzen 5 1600X: The Better Ryzen 7 1700

What sounded critical can be immediately reversed into the positive with only two more physical cores, a little more clock and an acceptable price point, because the Ryzen 5 1600X once again fills a real gap in the market. You get a real six-core with SMT and can also operate it without hesitation on a 100-euro motherboard, which makes it interesting even for very simple workstations. By the way, it is also much better suited for playing and is therefore the rounder package. But that's exactly what Intel can't offer at the moment.

There you prefer to pack consumer CPUs on enthusiast motherboards and play nonchalantly wrong world. Then AMD's approach of making the larger CPUs run on the cheaper platforms, including overclocking. And that's exactly what makes the Ryzen 5 1600X a little insider tip for those who not only daddle, but also. Even if the Ryzen 5 1600X is positioned slightly more expensive than the Intel Core i5 7600K – the displacement and the maximum speed are correct if you look at the part as a whole.

Conclusion

The Ryzen 5 1600X may please, the Ryzen 5 1500X rather not, because it is (still) too expensive for the bidding. If it were well below 200 euros, he would be in competition for the Core i5 7500 and that's where we see him. But the CPU is more likely to deter than excite.

Another advantage of the Ryzen 5 1600X: The chip quality seems to fluctuate significantly less than that of the Ryzen 5 1500X, because all three models could be overclocked to 4 GHz without resistance, while the Ryzen 5 1500X only up to 3.8 or 3.8. 3.9 GHz went overclocking. In addition, with a copy of the Ryzen 5 1500X, the memory ran only up to DDR4 2933 stable.

In conclusion, one can only state at the end that AMD's size is in size and that you always become really attractive, because you find a niche that the competitor cannot or does not want to occupy. In a direct four-eye comparison, on the other hand, one can only lose with the current price expectations. And that's where AMD should start as quickly as possible. AMD's optimism in all honors, but reality always wins in the end. Whether it's good or bad for business.

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