The Ryzen 5 1600 is the obvious choice as suspected. Between its $220 asking price and bundled cooler, it presents too much of a value proposition to give the cooler-less 1600X much consideration ...

Ryzen 5 review vs. Core i5: Ryzen 5 1600X wins for best mainstream power CPU We test the best for $250, pitting the new Ryzen 5 1600X against Intel's vaunted Core i5-7600K. By Gordon Mah Ung ...

The Ryzen 5 1600 was tested on the MSI B450 Tomahawk using G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3200 CL15 memory. The Core i5-7600K was tested on the Asrock Z270 Taichi with the same G.Skill memory.

Meanwhile, the Ryzen 5 1600 represents the same workload running clock-for-clock between R5 and i5 though we do have a small memory bandwidth advantage on the AMD side. Elsewhere, however, the ...

The Ryzen 5 7600 comes bundled with AMD’s Wraith Stealth cooler, while the Ryzen 5 7600X doesn’t come with a cooler at all. That saves you around $50 on a CPU cooler, and even more if you want ...

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 are two popular CPUs in the budget mid-range category. The former offers more features and performance, so you would naturally assume it is better.

AMD's Ryzen 5 1600 is a solid performing 6 core 12 thread CPU at an affordable price point, and while the Ryzen 5 1400 might not have all the cores that Ryzen is known for, both are great value buys.

Asking for a friend... no really, I'm asking for my friend, as I want to get a second opinion to my own. He's wanting to build a brand new system for his ...

Across a wide range of tests, the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X is simply outright better than its Ryzen 5 7600X. For single-core scoring, it's not so clear cut, but for applications that can fully utilize ...