Best of AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Processor - YD260XBCAFBOX Full review

Best of AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Processor  - YD260XBCAFBOX Full review

Best of AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Processor  - YD260XBCAFBOX Full review

pros
Good multi-threaded performance
Higher clocks plus unlocked for overclocking
Attractively priced with cooler

cons
Slower at games than i5-8400 (with a fast GPU)
Limited overclocking, especially with Wraith Spire.

RYZEN 5 2600X SPECS


6-cores/12-threads
Boost Clock: 4.2GHz
Base Clock: 3.6GHz
L3 cache: 16MB
Wraith Spire cooler


AMD Ryzen reviews:
Ryzen 7 2700X
Ryzen 7 1800X/1700X/1700
Ryzen 5 1600X/1600/1500X/1400
Ryzen 3 1300X/1200
Ryzen Threadripper 1950X/1920X
Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G

 AMD has launched for news n processors they're all 2nd gen parts of the part numbers all begin with the 2 logically enough the first generation last year started with the 1 so we have the risin 720 700 X we reviewed there elsewhere the risin 720 700 without an X this is the risin 520 600 X and there's also a risin 520 600 let's just run Cinebench so you can see what it actually does 6 cores 12 threads all pounding way all doing good stuff called tear through that in no time and now the CPU cooler over there is spinning up in response will come to that little what so it's 

been a year since the original Zen's launched rise ins been very successful after rice & 7 came out we've got 5 & 3 now we've got some updates we already had Raven Ridge with integrated Vega graphics the family is getting quite extensive but these new parts will replace the originals so the Rison 720 700 X is going to replace the 1700 X there is not a 2800 X at the mumps that's the top-notch part and this rise in 520 600 X is going to replace the original 1600 X which was a 

6 called 12 thread processor that we liked a great deal this is actually a touch cheaper than the 1600 X started off when the 1600 X launched it was  this is 210 in the UK that's the list price any rate and you get that CPU cooler the Wraith spire as part of the package that's why the Fox is so large so if we say that coolers worth some money let's say it's  in a penny then that means that this CPU  which is pretty good you 

know you're looking at potentially a lot of hardware for your cash now the move from first gen rising to 2nd gen rising is a die shrink 14 nanometer goes to 12 nanometer which in and of itself is not very exciting you're thinking a little bit more efficiency a little bit more clock speed that's probably banking a lot there are actually a few other things going on happily otherwise this would be a terribly short review glancing down the specification of the new CPU throws up no surprises so 6 cores 12 threads base clock 3.60 gigahertz boost clock 4.2 gigahertz take both 

those speeds of the pinch of salt 3 megabytes of l2 cache that's because it's a 6 core if it was an 8 core be 4 megabytes 16 megabytes of l3 cache add those two together you get 19 Meg so you'll see some rise ins have 19 Meg and others have 20 the 12 nanometer FinFET process which realistically is the change inside precision boost to extended frequency range - that's xfr - you get the wraith spire cpu cooler it supports ddr4 memory that's faster than previous but there's 

supported and there's what works the sniper X from G scale run through the spec in a moment is 3400 with previous rise ins it was 32 hundred megahertz memory as as fast as it made any sense to go otherwise the system will get almost certainly unstable and we had to use flare X in the past from g.skill because that was a dedicated risin and thread Ripper memory and now suddenly were able to use more general-purpose ddr4 which is actually really encouraging it 

suggests that the wrinkles arising is that a rhyme it's or something the wrinkles are rising they're being sorted out I mean it's been a year and you'd expect this to be working through so the sight of that sniper X is actually very encouraging and 95 watt TDP just like the previous 1600 X now that business of precision boost to an extended frequency range of xf r to basically that means dynamic clock speed that's what that really boils down to provided the CPUs within its thermal envelope forget the exact number 95 watts because that's just an indication that 

means a fairly toasty desktop processor without being enormous ly toasty then provided it's got enough juice it's cool enough then the speed if the processor wants to go faster can go faster if on the other hand it'll get they're hot and getting a bit close to uncomfortable parts but it will slow down it's a hugely dynamic thing the speeds changing 25 megahertz bumps up and down like crazy the fact that this is a nominal maximum boost of 4.3 4.2 gigahertz that was not all the cause that's gonna be like when you start running a benchmark or something you're suddenly 

see the clock speeds flash up and then drop back down as more pause chime in it's the all core speed that we're really interested in the test system that we have here so we've got a gigabyte X 470 horas gaming seven Wi-Fi motherboard X 470 rather than 370 that significant new chipset and if you want your new second generation processor to work correctly with the dynamic speed increases then you require the 470 chipset 370 470 it's Intel's done similar things to us in 

the Bob recently actually were coffee-like said 270 going to 0-3 70 you look at the game but in what way is it different the layout and the construction of the current crop of motherboards definitely seem a notch above the previous why they have to have a different chips I think all it's something different that remains to be seen but it is still sake a.m. for so pin-compatible you can take a previous an original rise and drop it in this motherboard you can take this rise and

 drop it in an original motherboard and it will work provided the buyer supports it but you won't get all the features of the dynamic overclocking so we've got the rise in 520 600 X we've got 16 gigabytes of the sniper X from g.skill that's 3400 as I say an EVGA gtx 980ti graphics card there's a story there do have a benchmarking for this sort of launch the twin of this graphics card failed on me but it took a little while to fail so all I knew is something was wrong I assumed it's part of you know I was testing the CPUs and the motherboards and the memory 

I assumed that was unhappy the graphics cards barely doing any work in CPU testing the idea died on me it was just extraordinary the testing was actually done not with the air cooler is done with I'll reach across testing was done with this fractal designs Celsius s 24 which is an a stick to 40 mil and the reason I used it is because it has interchangeable mounts these mounting plates snap on and snap off and it fits just everything that I work with is absolutely is a good 

cooler and the mounting system is excellent there are plenty of liquid coolers on the market that do not support a m4 risin so if you want a liquid cooler just make sure that actually supports your a Chosen platform and the reason I'm even mentioning liquid colors is because that could've there it certainly works adequately when you stop clock speeds if you want to go for extra performance really a best off changing in cooler and frankly I find the fan noise a little bit annoying sitting here it's dead silent but as soon as it starts to work you can hear it getting fast

 and getting noisier whereas the liquid cooler it's just basically silent we can be related to his own devices so the a m4 socket that's a good thing but we've got a second generation of motherboards that's annoying on the plus side pricing is really good so as I said before this CPU package sells for  including the cooler see you can argue the processor itself is the original first gen 1600 X that sold but it gets better than that because if you look around now that that rise in five 1600 X that's  at launch you 

can now find for 175 that risin risin 5 600 X that's a good processor we liked it when it came out it's still good this is better but it's a marginal improvement and this takes us to the business about what is different inside the processor the die shrink from 14 nanometer to 12 nanometer it really is as it sounds you're basically looking at 10% in area you'd think everything gets 10% closer together which is worth having but the the processor has not been redesigned internally and that means you are looking at some gains about 5% we reckon on performance because

 everything's that bit smaller and close together and also boom Liam DS had the extra year to refine the design Tad's all people people the silicon fab have at any rate and in addition you've got this precision boost to an XF r2 which certainly helped this is where things get slightly amusing AMD is positioning the risin 720 700 X the new king of the heap the 8 core 16 thread directly against the Intel Core i7 8700 K coffee like that's the six core and 12 thread processor intel has better IPC than AMD so AMD's kind of got more cores and over what they're saying 

is in terms of gaming we're equal when it comes to content so video editing that sort of thing we're better cuz we've got more hardware cause and they're not wrong is is the truth of it you can certainly make the case that 2700 X is better than coffee like or if you're a dedicated gamer who does nothing but games you could say no coffee date works for me you can argue it both which ways curiously AMD's positioning this rise in 520 600 X against core i5 80 600 K which is a 6 core processor  so they're in the same ballpark in terms of pricing but 

it's a six-course 6 thread day it doesn't have hyper threading this is six core 12 thread now this is slightly slower in terms of clock speed than the Intel processor and in fact you can overclock the Intel processor to 5 gigahertz if you really want I mean it gets close to the limits of the package but it will go all the way to 5 gigahertz this will go to 4.2 gigahertz and frankly there's no point in doing it the the return on the overclocking was essentially zero so I would strongly recommend if you're buying this processor buy it just run it as it comes out the box let that 

dynamic overclocking work for you do not bother manually overclocking it total waste of time my recent experience to compare this rise in 520 600 X with the coffee leg core i5 technically on paper that there's just it's just not right on the other hand if you're looking at the price point which processors do I buy as well you can very easily make the case that this is the process to get but then we had this argument a year ago it was what core i5 is dead 

buy yourself a risin fire next move on why are we even having this conversation there was nothing to discuss and the fact is that quite clearly people are continuing to buy in till they're not ditched Intel in favor of AMD therefore you've still got the argument to have so this is a darn fine processor that runs basically at four gigahertz out of the box it's got six causes it's got 12 threads it's reasonable value for money it's good value for money it's good value for money I'm not mad keen on the cooler but it works and you know you can always replace it with a better thing that's quieter that's really the thing for me and gaming performance content 

creation as such like they weren't good they really are the real pain in the neck is that is not enough to buy the processor you also have to buy itself a motherboard so you really you can have to look at spending  that's quite a lot of cash to lay out but then we've had this so many times each new generation comes along and there we go so if you currently have a rise in first gen I can't believe you're gonna buy this and the 

motherboard I just find that hard to believe but if you do I think you'll be pleased if you don't yet have a rising but you've been considering horizon this is definitely way to be leaping in now tundra for the motherboard  for the processor.

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a brand new product from AMD actually a couple new products from AMD this is their new line of ap use advanced processor units which means that it is a CPU with a built-in graphic solution actually we're using rx biga graphics here which is very exciting that that means we're gonna have some low powered but pretty powerful at the same time chips that don't need a discrete GPU to run 3d applications like your favorite video games for example of course it's not gonna be quite as powerful as a discrete graphics solution but these are much more cost effective and we're gonna take a closer look at them next week when the embargo for 

benchmarks actually lifts today the embargo is lifting just for the unboxing so we're gonna do an unboxing because we can not necessarily because we should it's just just an unboxing but we'll get to talk about the skis that are in here the different products and what they're made of in just a moment here I guess we could just sort of fire it off I'm gonna we've got some multicam setups going on today so we've got a top-down camera there let's go ahead and rip the velcro felt right now I got a level with you guys I've actually already kind of unboxed this 

because I've already started my testing testing is underway for this guy so guys apologies in advance if you see some of the packages have already been opened first off we've got some nice artwork rising powers right Radeon rains you prevail and it's showing us the two schemes that are included in this package we've got a risin 5 for 2400 G and an AMD risin 320 200 G we'll talk about the specs on those in just a moment this is again showing you that we've got Rison so 

we've got a Zen architecture here 14 nanometer FinFET process with Vega graphics built right in now this is not to be mistaken for rising 2nd generation these are still rising 1st gen chips however we are getting some some some nice features that aren't found on 1st gen rising that launched last year so for starters this is what we've got and let's let's start with let's start with this this is a motherboard the Gigabyte motherboard actually I'm gonna move this aside this is 

the a be 350 N gaming Wi-Fi let's take a look at the board really quick you know I mean they made an effort to to package it in here let's take a look clearly I've already unbought this this is actually the board that I used for my testing for the benchmark review you see next week it will be featuring this board it's a lovely board lovely little mini ITX guy it's black and red so hopefully that's that's a color scheme that you're into but we've got a Wi-Fi module it does have Wi-Fi which i think is very important for most mini ITX boards there's an m dot two slot on 

the back which I do appreciate so I mean really you can get a pretty darn small case to fit everything inside here with that m2 slot and having the graphic solution built right onto the chip you could actually have a pretty tiny little system whether it be an HT PC or light powered gaming rig does have a full eight pin CPU connector that's good looks like you might be able to do some some decent overclocking here looks like we've got one two three four five six MOSFETs there's a little heatsink over that and four SATA ports four SATA 6g parts a little 

light on the fan connectors we've got one two fan headers where's the second one second fan header right there could have could have used it a couple more fan headers there but what can you do rear i/o again we got the Wi-Fi which is lovely and six USB 3.0 ports no type-c or anything like that no type-c on the on the main mainboard either to DIMM slots and a full size by 16 PCIe slots so you can use these CPUs in tandem with the discrete GPU if you want to and we'll talk a little bit about the possibilities there later on but very nice motherboard but moving 

on here we have a lot more to unbox secondly memory ah the flare X the girl flare X clerics is known for having extreme solid guaranteed compatibility with the a m4 platform this is especially useful and important when the platform first launched last year because there weren't a lot of memory kits that were validated to work at the rated speeds but g-scale brought it home with the flare X this is a 16 gigabyte kit kats latency 14 and 34 1.35 bolts and we are rocking the 3200 megahertz frequency that is lovely lovely I actually memory is not cheap these 

days so I'm glad sometimes the manufacturers included with their packages and then we have a USB stick these aren't quite in high demand but us 2.0 AMD branded USB stick I'm not sure if there are drivers on it I don't think so I think it's probably just blank so I don't know you can do a make a bootable disk or something like that later and then we've got the good stuff our main event horizon 320 200 G and 2400 G horizon 5 I'm gonna I'm gonna unbox the Rison 320

 200 G first because I actually haven't unboxed it yet you can see that I've already broken the seal on the 2400 G this is the one that I have tested so far and I can't say anything else about that but stay tuned for actual benchmarking I keep saying that I need a razor I'll be right back I am so unprepared for this unboxing I don't even have a razor what am i doing I am a professional it's okay and do I even do I even own a razor where did the razor go I have a saw okay we're gonna use we're gonna use Chris's student ID I will make sure not to show them 

your picture even though you look perfectly fine and we're gonna open it oh wow but just slice right through there thank you very much Chris fun fact you can open CPU boxes with credit cards and your student ID multi-tool that's technically a multi-tool alright so let's open up this guy so Rison 320 200 G all right we've got a fork or four thread part here so no SMT again this is retailing I don't have to mention this very attractive price point for four cores and four threads based on boost clock of 3.5 and 3.7 gigahertz respectively as far as cash goes we 

have two megabytes of l2 cache and four megabytes of l3 cache and as far as the graphics solution the 2200 G is fitted with Radian Vega 8 graphics and the 8 also indicates the number of GPU cores we have 8 GPU cores on this guy on this little guy there he is the IHS looks pretty much identical to first generalise and chips that are already available alrighty and additionally we've got a clock speed a graphics frequency of 1100 megahertz and another thing is that we have an included Wraith stealth I think this is the stone I'll put an annotation if I'm wrong it's 

confusing but this is the little one a little guy will race stealth here he's adorable and looks exactly the same as the existing units that shipped with other select rising CPUs this is not the one with the RGB ring and it's a very important thing to point out for some of you it does have a nice black braided cable for pete 4 pin pwm connector at the end and pre-applied thermal paste so you can choose to use that for wipe it off and use your own up to you but the other 

thing this also brings up a good point is that this as well as the resin fiber about to look at have a 65 watt TDP so very power efficient and they're not gonna really expel much heat which means something like this is gonna do just a fine job at cooling it the other great thing about these ap use is that they're fully unlocked the multiplier is fully unlocked and you can actually overclock both the CPU and GPU portions of these units which is fantastic you can do that within rising master the rising master software from AMD I'm pretty sure you could also 

overclock the CPU side straight from the UAF I like you would a traditional processor and that's the Rison 320 200 G this is gonna be really great for 4 HT pcs where gaming might not be a central focus because the the graphic solution on here is not quite as powerful as the one found in the Rison 520 400 G ,so I'm gonna go ahead and open up this guy and I've placed the CPU back inside of the box to simulate a authentic and pure unboxing I don't really need to check out the race pyre again and honestly it's kind of a moot 

point to show the CPU here because it looks exactly the same as the one we just looked at but let's talk about this one what do you get for  more over the horizon 320 200 G well for starters you still have the same four cores but now we've got SMT so we're getting eight threads which means this is gonna do a finer job at multi-threaded tasks perhaps games that can leverage multiple course and maybe a bit of light encoding as well so for course eight threads higher clock speeds out of the box as well with a base in boost clock 3.6 and 3.9 gigahertz 

respectively and we've also got again 65 watt TDP the graphic solution is probably the thing that's going to sell a lot of people on this as well is that we're moving up from 8 to 11 GPU cores so this is using Vega 11 graphics and with that you also get a higher clock speed on the graphics core at twelve hundred and fifty megahertz and again these are these are overclockable figures guys we can push this even further AMD was showing us some pretty impressive numbers at their press event few weeks back during CES and that's it that's the chip I mean so I mean you 

know pairing that with a board like the one we have here you can have a pretty compact little system they didn't say they didn't say we couldn't mount the CPU into the socket the Embargo does not specify that CPU mounting was was illegal so guys finally for the very first time we're gonna be able to start using the video outputs on these am4 motherboards all of us reviewers kind of already knew that AMD was gonna release ap use for this platform because when the am4 boards first launched we saw you know hdmi and displayport outs and since there's no 

integrated graphics solution on the first gen rising chips that launched last year we all kind of figured okay they've clearly got some plans to make some AP use and here they are finally ready for launch it'll be interesting come review day to see just how capable these processors are first off for starters I really want to see the difference in graphical performance between the Rison 3 and Rison 5 chips here and secondly with GPU prices so high right now people are gonna consider buying these as a temporary stopgap for for gaming purposes mostly I would 

imagine until GPU prices come back down but are these things going to be able to handle any sort of gaming experience at an adequate and enjoyable level in the first place you guys will just have to wait for my review and many others coming soon and yeah very exciting stuff I love APU I love small form-factor mini ITX builds as most of you guys know so rest assured we will be doing some major testing with these some overclocking with these and definitely some builds as well so stay tuned for all that guys that's gonna pretty much wrap it up that's all I can really 
say AMD will cut me off there .

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