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 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 ...