AMD's "Ryzen 5" thoroughly benchmarks with Intel Core i 5, AMD or Intel to control the mainstream market?

AMD's new CPU "Ryzen" series that adopts the microarchitecture "Zen" is equipped with "Ryzen 5"Has appeared. It breaks with the equivalent performance at half the price of Intel's high-end CPU "Ryzen 7After Ryzen 5 can break Intel's stronghold,AnandTechIs doing thorough benchmark test.

The AMD Ryzen 5 1600 X vs Core i 5 Review: Twelve Threads vs Four at $ 250
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◆ What is Ryzen 5
The "Ryzen 7" series is 8 cores / 16 threads, whereas the "Ryzen 5" series has a lineup of models with 4 cores / 8 threads, including 16 cores of 6 cores / 12 threads. As you can see from the naming "Ryzen 5", Intel's Core i 5 series are rivals. However, since Intel Core i 5 is 4 cores / 4 threads, Ryzen 5 has a great advantage in terms of specifications, and it also has the largest volume CPU with the range of Core i 7 for mainstream such as Skylake and Kaby Lake as the range It is more accurate to say that products targeting the market. AMD, which succeeded in cutting in the high-end market with Ryzen 7, is Ryzen 5 that tried to cut off the mainstream market dominated by Intel. Incidentally, as with Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 does not have magnification locking, and overclocking is possible with all CPUs.


The Ryzen series CPU consists of "Core Complex (CCX)" which is a shared L3 cache with four cores combined, and the latency (delay) increases as it crosses CCX. The Ryzen 7 of the 8 cores and the Ryzen 5 of the 6 cores are also equipped with two CCXs, and in the case of 6 cores, 2 cores out of the 8 cores are invalidated.


The figure below shows the power consumption of each core of 1600X composed of 3 core + 3 core CCX. In the XFR state in which only one core is OC, 22.54 W and 22.91 W in total including the remaining 5 cores, 20.78 W and 20.67 W in 2 core full load XFR, including the remaining 4 cores total 41.91 W. If 3 cores or more are loaded fully, XFR will not work, and when 6 cores / 12 threads are used up it will be about 60 W.


Two kinds of AMD genuine CPU cooler "Wraith Spire" and "Wraith Stealth" are attached to Ryzen 5 series according to TDP respectively. By the way, unlike the Wraith Spire that comes with the Ryzen 7 1700, the Ryzen 5 CPU cooler does not have a ring shaped LED.


Ryzen series has memory limitations. Currently supported memory is 2667 MHz with 2 inserts for single rank memory, up to 2133 MHz with 4 inserts, 2400 MHz with 2 inserts for dual rank memory, up to 1886 MHz with 4 inserts. Both ECC and non-ECC memory are supported.


The power consumption when loading each CPU of Ryzen 5, Core i 5 is as follows. There seems to be a little step in Core i 5 for power saving performance.


◆ Comparison with Core i5
For comparison of Ryzen 5 1600 X, Core i 5-7600 K is chosen. The price is roughly equivalent to Ryzen 5 1600X for 249 dollars (about 27,300 yen), Core i 5-7600 K for $ 242 (about 26,500 yen). From the pricing it is clear that AMD stands for i5-7600K for virtual enemies with 1600 X.


Ryzen 5 1500X rivals are Core i 5-7500.1600X, 1500X slightly Ryzen 5 is more expensive than Core i5 It may be said that AMD's self-confidence appeared.


◆ Benchmark test
For benchmarking, the motherboard is ASUS "Crosshair VI Hero", the CPU cooler is Nocture "NH-U12S SE-AM 4", the power supply is Corsair "AX 860i", the memory is Corsair "Vengeance DDR4-3000 C15 8 GB" × 2 The graphics boards are GTX1080, GTX1060, R9 Fury, RX480, RX460 and other five typical models of NVIDIA and AMD, storage is Crucial MX 200 (1 TB), OS is Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. By the way, AnandTech implements completely scripted CPU benchmark software, and it is an environment that can measure various benchmarks with one button click.


AnandTech uses various benchmark software to compare Ryzen 5 versus Core i5. It seems that it took about 8 to 10 hours to produce about 100 data points using a script. Below is a selection of some of them, which should give you an approximate trend on the performance of Ryzen 5. The red graph shows Ryzen 5 1600X and 1500X.

◆ CPU system test
· Adobe Reader DC
Benchmark to open high resolution PDF file. The average time obtained by repeating the test ten times is graphed, indicating that the graph is shorter (lower numerical value), the better the performance. The work of opening PDF is single-threaded operation, so Core i 5 with higher frequency is the dominant result.


· 3D Particle Movement v 2.1
Ryzen 5's victory in 3D Particle Movement.


· DigiCortex 1.20
Ryzen 5 1600X / 1500X is better than Core i5 7600K even in DigiCortex which visualizes neurons and synapse activity in the brain.


· Agisoft Photoscan 1.0
In Agisoft Photoscan, which converts 2D images to 3D models, 1600X exceeds 7600K, but 1500X is almost equal.


◆ Rendering software
· Corona 1.3
In the rendering software Corona, Ryzen 5 wins the game.


· Blender 2.78
Blender also has a better score than Ryzen 5.


· POV-Ray 3.7.1
In POV - Ray 1600X is a good result, but 1500X is losing to 7600 · 7600K. Since POV - Ray is updated frequently after releasing Ryzen, it is pointed out that the score may change in the future.


· Cinebench R15
Cinebench which is representative as benchmark software showing single thread performance. In Cinebench where Many-core is disadvantaged, Core i 5 dominates single thread performance as expected.


In multithreading on the other hand, Ryzen 5 is overwhelming Core i 5.


◆ Web test
· SunSpider 1.0.2
In the test using SunSpider of JavaScript algorithm tool, 7600K slightly exceeds 1600X.


· Mozilla Kraken 1.1
Java processing based benchmarks such as audio processing and image filters closer to actual use Kraken has 7600K predominance. In addition, the result that 1500X exceeds 1600X has come out.


· Google Octane 2.0
Core i 5 exceeds Ryzen 5 in Octane for smart phones, tablet and other devices with limited power consumption.


· WebXPRT
7600 K leads financial software WebXPRT. However, Ryzen 5 is doing equal game as well.


◆ Encoding test
· 7-Zip
Compression decompression tool 7 - Zip won the Ryzen 5 victory. 1600X has almost double score on 7600K.


· AES encoding
Even in AES coding Ryzen 5 overwhelm Core i 5.


· HandBrake
In H.264 encoding using the encoding software HandBrake, 1600 X is out of the head, and it demonstrates the performance of 6 cores / 12 threads.


Even with HEVC encoding of 4K quality, 1600X predominates at 7600K.


◆ CPU integrated test
· PCMark 8
In PCMark 8, 1600X is higher than 7600, 1500X exceeds 7500.


· Chromium Compile (v 56)
In the compile test of the nightly build of Chromium, Ryzen 5 dominates.


· 3DPM v1
3DPM single thread performance. A CPU with a smaller number of cores still has a dominant score.


With multi-threading performance Ryzen 5 is a complete win.


· Cine Bench 10
CineBench has the same tendency. Single thread


Multithread


◆ GPU test
In the GPU test to confirm the game performance, we use five kinds of graphic boards to measure the benchmark in the game.

· Civilization 6
Average frame rate with full HD (1080p) using Civilization 6 with GTX 1080. Ryzen 5 exceeds Core i 5.


Ryzen 5 also has higher performance than Core i 5 in 4K image quality.


In the middle range class graphic board GTX 1060, almost the same score.


AMD's high-end graphic board R9 Fury has overwhelmed 7600 with 1600X.


The same result with AMD's middle range graphic board RX 480.


· Rise of the Tomb Raider
In Rise of the Tomb Raider, Core i 5 is winning.


· Rocket League DX 9
Rocket League also Core i 5 greatly exceeds Ryzen 5.


· Grand Theft Auto V DX 11
Grand Theft Auto V slightly exceeds 7600 x over 7600.


· 8K test
Comparison with 8K image quality using Civilization 6. Somewhat Core i 5 is dominant.


From various benchmark results, you can see that Ryzen 5 has performance equal to or better than that of rival Core i5. In the game, Core i 5 with a high frequency is often advantageous, but Ryzen 5 1600 X with 6 cores / 12 threads and Core i 5 that is more than 50% in terms of the number of cores and 200% more than the number of threads is also advantageous, and in the same price range The Ryzen 5 that appeared seems to be a powerful opposing horse of the Intel CPU whose price has remained high despite the absence of rival and poor performance evolution. AMD plans to release Ryzen 3 which is even lower price in 2017 and APU "Raven Ridge" with built-in GPU with Zen architecture.