Today we have another performance test of AMD Ryzen 5 1600X in the Cinebench R15 which continues to confirm recent rumors we have seen so far, the Ryzen 5 1600X is faster than the Core i7-6800K with all cores active.
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Beat Core i7-6800K in Cinebench
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With the 1,136 points in the Cinebench benchmarking tool obtained by the Ryzen 1600X, we see how its 6 cores and 12 threads with a TDP of 95W beat the Core i7-6800K (TDP 140W. Also, you can see from the below screenshot that Core i7-6850K is just 18 points ahead. The most surprising thing is that the Ryzen 5-1600K CPU will cost about $260, while the Core i7-6800K costs almost $430 and a $590 for Core i7-6850K , not to mention that Ryzen platform is way cheaper when you add motherboard price starting from 150 euros with a powerful VRM for Overclocking with two M.2 ports and support for Multi-GPU @ x16 / x16 configurations.
It is expected that we will see a massive drop in prices from Intel side, or step might launch new processors Core i7-7740K and Core i5-7640K to face AMD Ryzen.
AMD Ryzen Specifications and Price:
| Processor | Cores/Threads | L3 | TDP | Base | Turbo | XFR | Overclocking Unlocked |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 7 1800X | 8/16 | 16MB | 95W | 3.6GHz | 4.0GHz | 4.0GHz+ | Yes | $499 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 1700X | 8/16 | 16MB | 95W | 3.4GHz | 3.8GHz | 3.8GHz+ | Yes | $389 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 1700 | 8/16 | 16MB | 65W | 3.0GHz | 3.7GHz | N/A | Yes | $319 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 1600X | 6/12 | 16MB | 95W | 3.3GHz | 3.7GHz | 3.7GHz+ | Yes | $259 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 1500 | 6/12 | 16MB | 65W | 3.2GHz | 3.5GHz | N/A | Yes | $229 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 1400X | 4/8 | 8MB | 65W | 3.5GHz | 3.9GHz | 3.9GHz+ | Yes | $199 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 1300 | 4/8 | 8MB | 65W | 3.2GHz | 3.5GHz | N/A | Yes | $175 |
| AMD Ryzen 3 1200X | 4/4 | 8MB | 65W | 3.4GHz | 3.8GHz | 3.8GHz+ | Yes | $149 |
| AMD Ryzen 3 1100 | 4/4 | 8MB | 65W | 3.2GHz | 3.5GHz | N/A | Yes | $129 |
