The best AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor - amazing review

The best AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor - amazing review

The best AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor - amazing review

 I hope you're all doing well and you're not sick of sick and Gen rising content just yet because today we have more hurt for you as the titles no doubt given away we are checking out the horizon five twenty six hundred and we'll be taking it for a spin on the impressive new a soos ROG crosshair seven hero it's a x4 seventy board with all the bells and whistles it has to be said though that the horizon 526 hour is probably better suited to something like the ROG strict x4 7f gaming or the prime X 470 Pro given that it is a processor but 2600 is 

a cheaper than the 2600 X that we looked at last week and that 13% saving sees the operating clock speeds reduced by 6 to 7 percent while the Box cooler has been downgraded from the array aspire to the dinky little ray of stealth and we'll check out how that performs later in the video the real competition though comes from the blue team's coffee-like core i5 range in particular the Core i5 8400 I'm not a huge saving but does make it a little more affordable there are eyes in 520 600 does have two distinct 

advantages though firstly it can be overclocked and pushing all calls past four gigahertz shouldn't be a problem meanwhile the core i5 8400 is limited to an all-call frequency of 3.8 gigahertz however perhaps the biggest advantage is the fact that 2600 is a six core 12 thread processor thanks to the inclusion of SMT support 3400 lacks Intel's hyper-threading technology meaning it's a six-course 6 thread CPU and this will hand arisin a serious advantage in core heavy workloads AMD has really been aggressive for pricing on the second gen rising CPUs 

last year the rise in 5 1600 launched at though it has to be said for most of 2017 it did sell for less than that and then in early 2018 it was officially discounted to that means when compared to the discounted price the 2600 is coming in at just a fraction more than the older 1600 apart from improved IPC performance greater efficiency reduced cache latency enhanced memory latency and frequency support the 2600 also comes clocked 6 to 8 at 

higher than the 1600 out of the box then like the rest of the horizon light the 2600 is also an unlocked CPU so reaching and even exceeding the stock 2600 X performance shouldn't be an issue so for our test setup just a quick recap on that in case you missed the last 32 minute long review on the 2600 X 120 700 X all data has been updated for the release of the second gen Rison CPUs this means all data is fresh and has been gathered in the past two weeks all testing was done with the latest drivers Windows updates motherboard BIOS updates game and 

application updates and security updates yes the latest specter and meltdown updates have been applied throughout the testing we're looking at stock out-of-the-box performance as well as overclocking the first generalising CPUs have been overclocked to 4 gigahertz while I was able to get the 2600 X stable at 4.1 gigahertz and the 2700 X at 4.2 gigahertz the non X 2600 though was able to boot in the windows and complete a number of tests including Cinebench 


r15 s multi-threaded test at 4.3 gigahertz using the same 1.37 5 volts that limited the 2600 extra just for point 1 gigahertz unfortunately though cranking the voltage right up still was enough to allow us to stabilize the overclock at four point three gigahertz particularly for our heavy blender workload and we were forced back down a 4.2 gigahertz something else worth noting was that the 2600 would suffer the dreaded blue screen of death when using our g.skill sniper X ddr4 3400 CL 16 memory the integrated controller just doesn't seem to be as good as what we 

found with the 2600 X and 2700 X therefore I switched to G skills flair exterior for 3200 CL 14 memory you don't really sacrifice much with this lower frequency memory due to the tighter timings this integrated memory controller issue could just be a problem with my chip or it could be more widespread with all of the non ex models time will tell anyway enough chitchat let's get to the good stuff first up here's a quick look at sustained memory performance and as you can see the lower latency CL 14 memory actually edges out the higher clock ddr4 3400 sells 

16 memory used by the 2600 X so despite using lower clocked memory the Rison 5 2600 shouldn't be at a disadvantage with the bandwidth creeping just there were 39 gigabytes per second it's got plenty to play with moving on to Cinebench r15 we see the 2600 trails the 2600 x by six percent margin for both d single and multi threaded tests still out of the box that was able to mimic the core i7 7 or X and improved on the older Eisen 5 1600 single thread score by a 9% margin and the multi threads score by an impressive 12 percent margin overclocked it was able to edge out the slightly inferior 2600 X chip and I mean inferior in the sense that it only 

managed to get to 4.1 gigahertz I suspect though we did get a poor chip it seems like we have a similar situation to the 1600 and 1600 X with the new 2,600 and 2,650 Hertz next up we have the PC mark 10 video editing results and here we can see it these stock risin 5 2600 scores 4901 points which placed it only ahead of the r5 1600 but also just 2% behind these stock 2600 X and core i7 700 X overclocked to 4.2 gigahertz the score jumped up by 12% to reach 5,500 nine points and that's almost on par with the rise in 720 700 X so that's an exceptional 

result for the 2600 this time with the PC mark gaming test we see that when compared to the horizon 5 1600 the 2600 was 8% faster a litter box and 7% faster once both CPUs were overclocked to the max overclocked the 2600 also matched the horizon 7 1800 X though doodle reduction in cause was 9% slower than the 2,700 X firing up Excel for some spreadsheet action we see the 2600 took just 3.1 seconds to complete the workload when stock and just 2.6 seconds once overclocked that means with both these 1600 and 2600 overclocked to the max the new 

second journal completed the workload 11% quicker for compression and decompression work for 2600 is 11% fast and the 1600 which is a seriously impressive improvement this puts it almost on par with the core i7 700 X a CPU that costs almost twice as much then moving on we find the 2600 deep trail the 700 it's by a rather large margin for our handbrake test though once overclocked if you rapidly close in of course you can still overclock for similar X and look at those results in a future review overall though this is still a great result for AMD and we see 

the 2600 is easily able to beat the 77 and Kate clocked at 5 gigahertz running the corona benchmark we see that out of the box the risin 5 2600 and core i7 700 X are comparable which again bodes well for this significantly more affordable AMD CPU moving on to the blender results and we see here that the 2600 needs to be clocked at 4.2 gigahertz in order to beat the stock core i7 a 1700 X still it is worth noting that before overclocking the 2600 is still fast in the core i7 7700 K which was clocked at 5 gigahertz so in terms of value it is still very impressive 

the v-ray benchmark shows the stock risin 520 600 shaving 11% off the render time when compared to the r5 1600 in fact overclocked to the max the r5 1600 is able to roughly match the stock 2600 meanwhile overclocking the second gen rising CP reduced the render time by a further 13% allowing it to complete the test in 89 seconds for content creators on a budget the horizon 520 600 should it be a hot item as you can achieve 8600 K light performance at a more affordable price even at 5.20 gigahertz the 8600 K is only a fraction faster not this frequency 

does require expensive cooling and addy lid though please note our chip hasn't been deleted and therefore does run extremely hot I was really impressed to see that even when editing the 2600 is comparable to the higher clocked 8600 K so appears to have no real weakness and is considerably better than the first generalising v 1600 for these types of lightly threaded workloads and of course that is down to the fact that it runs at a higher frequency when only using one or two cause okay so now it's time to do some gaming and first that we have ashes of the singularity running with the DirectX 12 API the rise in cpus would fare a lot better in this 

title with a radio and GPU as we've shown a number of times in the past unfortunately though right now AMD just doesn't have anything competitive in the high end so it makes more since the test with the GT x 1080 TI of course we would like to test with both it's just not possible due to time and all that sort of stuff anyway in the case of the horizon 520 600 it's still very respectable and overclocked edges at the stock 77 okay and 78 her ex it's also not a great deal slower than the eight core 1800 X and 2700 X moving on to Assassin's Creed origins using the higher quality preset and we see at the 2600 is only slightly faster than the 1600 out of the box 

that said unlike the 1600 it does see a decent performance bump once overclocked though something is limiting the AMD CPUs to around 98 fps in this title perhaps that could be the Nvidia display driver not a hundred percent sure on that one it's something I'll have to look into overclocked the Rison 5 2600 is able to roughly match the horizon 720 700 X in battlefield 1 and that meant that it was 8 percent faster than the 1600 maxed out at 4 gigahertz so a decent step forward here for AMD especially at the  price point reducing the GPU bottleneck by reducing the battlefield one quality preset to the medium setting and does allow the overclocked 

8700 KNAT 600 K to run away with it it's still before we overclock the 2600 allowed for over 100 FPS at all times anyway playing far cry 5 the overclocked 2600 basically matched the overclocked 2700 X and this made it one of the fastest rising CPUs we've ever tested in this title although it does trail the coffee lake and KB lag CPUs with a hundred fps or more it's still getting the job done nicely interestingly the six core eyes and CPUs do lag behind a little for the one percent low result in our 12 player bot match and while overclocking the 2600 does help here it still reaches the overwatch frame cap moving on we have vermintide 2 and here we see 

with the extreme quality preset at Tony peeve the horizon 5 2600 can almost get the most out of the GTX 1080i overclocked it was just 12 percent solid nearly 700 K 9600 K both of which were overclocked to 5.2 gigahertz reducing the GPU bottleneck with the medium quality preset does once again allow the Intel CPUs to run away with it making them a better for high refresh rate gaming as I've noted in the past then moving on to power consumption here we're measuring the peak total system consumption using the Quebec power mode like the core i5 8400 and rise and 5 1600 the 2600 sips of very little power in our ashes of the singularity benchmark and 

nearly drove total system consumption to just 370 watts overclocked we see an 11% increase to 411 watts which is really a great result for AMD for 2600 again matched the risin 5 1600 this time during 345 watts and we see a 12% increase once overclocked which is still less than the amount of power a stock 7800 extras here we see with the blender workload the 2600 draws less power than the 1600 and again overclocked still consumes less power than a stock core i7 7800 X the handbreak results they were a bit of an eye-opener honestly I was expecting to see more results that looked a bit like this when overclocking because usually we see overclocking just 

throwing efficiency out the window prior to any overclocking the 2600 is extremely efficient however once we overclock it for this benchmark total system consumption climbed by 88% and the only chance we might have ever seen a worse result here would be if I overclocked the 7800 X finally we have the Premier encode results and here the overclocked 2600 increased total system consumption by just 28% considering the 8600 case or a 32% increase once overclocked that's a decent result for the second gen rise in CPU now let's talk temperatures for testing we maintained an ambient air temperature of 21 to 22 degrees and the azuz ROG 

crosshair 7 hero along with the risin v 2600 and its box cooler were placed in our coarser crystal 570 X ATX test system under these conditions the Wraith stealth kept the r5 2600 74 degrees our blender stress test moving on to gaming we found under heavy load with utilization hovering between 80 and 90% the temperatures peaked at just 63 degrees and during more typical loads drop down to 59 degrees so for stock performance the little wraith stealth does quite a good job it's also very quiet for our 4.2 gigahertz overclock we did strap on the Corsair 

H 150 I Pro and this saw a pic temperature when running an hour long blender workload reach to 67 degrees then when gaming we saw temperatures peak at 56 degrees but it is worth noting that for the most part they were below 50 degrees as for overclocking with the Box cooler I was able to reach 4 gigahertz using one point to 3 volts but did hit a temperature of 87 degrees in our blender stress test after an hour for gaming you could afford to push things a little further but if you're doing any kind of heavy workloads 4 gigahertz is probably the limit here finally 

for those of you wondering stock the risin 5 2600 holds on all core clock speed of 3 point 6 5 gigahertz using the wraith stealth box cooler then upgrading to the h 150 i pro saw the all call frequency jump up to three point seven five gigahertz for the intense hour-long stress test we found the same 100 megahertz increase for the 2600 X and 2700 X when upgrading from the included box coolers last year I declared the risin 5 1600 as the best value CP on the market 

now whether you're a gamer or you've actually got some real work to do if you rivaled what the 1600 had to offer at the price point of course the core i5 8400 is an attractive option and arguably the better gaming CPU certainly for today's games but when it comes to core heavy workloads the 1600 just ran away with it and for that reason I really felt that it was the better all-rounder now we have the horizon 520 600 and it's offering I suppose what you could call it incremental upgrade to the previous model and really that's probably all it had to do for 

those that bought a rise in 5 1600 earlier this year or last year well they're not going to be upgrading to the 2600 they'll probably even hold off on jumping to the 2700 X but for those of you who are building a new PC now you have the choice between a coffee like Core i5 or a second-generation 5 processor and this incremental update has really helped make horizon are more attractive than it was previously the 2600 is also a nice upgrade option for those who purchased a quad core first generation processor the only disappointing aspect of the rival 520 

600 is the fact AMD downgraded the bundle to only include the Wraith stealth cooler if only the Wraith spire was included but for that you will need to pony up an extra money for the 2600 X model AMD has been a bit smarter this time around with the ex models still the 2600 is 13% cheaper and was at most 7 percent slower so in terms of value it is still the more cost effective option as for the Isuzu ROG cross s7 hero it's a seriously nice X 470 motherboard and with the latest bios version 509 I worked like a charm of course as I said earlier in the review it's better suited to use with sake Rison 7 models for the 2600 i'd recommend something like the Isuzu 

prime x4 70 pro or the tough x4 70 + gaming hopefully I can check those board out for you guys in a future review at the time of putting this review together the horizon 520 600 sat in 23rd position on Amazon's bestseller list while the horizon 720 700 exclaimed second spot behind the 8700 K and the r5 1600 was 1 position from standing on the podium in 4th it's pretty shocking to see how far back the r5 2600 currently is but that might have to do with AMD refusing to supply samples or even let retailers hand them over to us under embargo ahead of the release 

they obviously wanted their more expensive EX models front and center personally though I do prefer the cheaper Rison 5 2600 to the more expensive 2600 X as I'd be upgrading the cooler regardless of which version I purchased and the low latency ddr4 3200 memory seems like the way to go but let me hand this one over to you guys which model appears to be best for you the 2600 or the 2600 X please let me know in the comments below .


 a basic installing the AMD risin 520 600 that's what I've got right here I have two affiliate links check those out in the description so I've got Pro XP in and I got two buddy both of them on the old if you decide to click on them and give my try alright so let's get onto the install okay so we've got our rising 520 600 here I've got my test bench with my motherboard on it from the last review in case you're interested so getting it out of the box here comes in a little package like this and the actual CPU comes on a little small box just like that and of course as your host 

sticker you wanna put that on your case so that's all there is you've got the cooler here the Wraiths cooler and you got your CPU so getting the rest of it out of the box you just got the cover here okay and we're just gonna lift it off no you'll see if it was pre applied with thermal paste nice even spread like hey you can see you got your little screws so those are gonna go on your motherboard just like I'm gonna show you so the first thing you want to look for is a little triangle so I don't know if you can see it but it's right down here see ya little triangle it just kind 

of sticks out away from it okay that tells you where your triangle on your CPU is gonna go so now when you look at your CPU you can see that triangle now make sure you hold it by the edges okay don't touch anything here and all you're simply gonna do is release this mechanism here okay just pull it out oh don't lift it up and you're gonna set this one inside so just gently place it in there and it'll just pop on down and then that's it so now you can take the same bar push it back down underneath make sure it goes underneath this little tab that's all - putting your CPU in so once you've got it underneath that tab that's all there is to it so just make sure

 this arm goes underneath this little tab right here so the next thing I'm gonna do is you're gonna remove the four screws both sides and you're gonna take these little brackets off there's once I've got those screws out as you can see it just comes loose and you just take it off and you do the same thing on the other side but what you can see now is you've got your where your screws are going to go into on your board so these are just going to screw into these on this side same on the other side once you take that bracket off and it's gonna go on pretty simple and 

that came out so we're just going to lift it off now then of you notice just now see your four little things you're gonna put your screws into it pop down now sometimes there's an adhesive on this that holds it to the motherboard and sometimes not so I'm going to show you what happens if that takes place so being on a test bed all you guys reach my hand underneath and I looked at it back up so you can see yeah okay so now while I hold it I'm gonna line this with those four screws now if I was to let go that would fall back down so first thing I'm gonna do is secure it to 

the board now when I put those on how to secure them a little bit one side is always gonna be a little bit more off than the other so I'm just gonna bring this up you can see that a little bit better that all I'm doing is taking the screws so there's one more here and again I put my hand underneath under here to hold that up and that's gonna be the same as if it was on the back plate of your motherboard just to hold it in place so u.s. make sure you tighten each corner double check it it will only tighten a little bit still check make sure they're taking down once it stops that's pretty much it you have for all four corners and with that you're done and the only 

thing left is take this which is a four pen for you CPU pen on your motherboard and then just plug it in on this motherboard I'll show you where that's up so a couple of things to point out if you can look here you can see where one says CPU fan which is going to be the white one right here on the edge and the CPU optional is the other fan so you can use that as just a normal system fan so we're just gonna plug it in to the white one here take your little notch make sure that goes down with the little notches on the outside here and just plug it in and it just goes in 

like that now you can tuck that keyboard or the way you can just move another way you can twist tie it again later on now remember I did say the thermal pace was pre applied so once you put this down everything is good to go there's no LED on this fan whatsoever but it is a good fan it'll keep respectable temperatures if you're going to overclock then I suggest switching it up and either using a water cooler or a really good air core and if you want to see that I did a video on that girl here as well so you can go back and have a look at it so it's just the case 

anybody was interested inside this little box other than your sticker you've got your little installation manual so if you ever curious of how to do it certificate of authenticity and in here yeah detailed instructions on how to put everything together as I like to do I like to give you a little bit of information on it so again it's risin 5 2600 this is a 6 core 12th red processor then we'll get up to 3.9 gigahertz max and boost with a base of 3 point 4 gigahertz you will need a discreet graphics with this CPU because it does not have built-in graphics on this particular model okay so getting this on to the test bench I can show you the voltages okay and you look 

further down you see the temperature running it right now 28 degrees which is pretty good for standard cooler fan CPU is running at 1250 rpm to a max of 1544 now there's no fans so because it's not any case it's on my test bench and the horizon 520 600 voltages you see down below that and the temperature package node is at 27 degrees Celsius and then of course you see the cores all doing everything down below and I will just scroll down a little more and you can see the CPU utilization clocks which of course not very much because there's nothing really 

going on I hope that tells you what you need to know alright everybody so that's it you like that video hit that like if you don't you know what to do think about subscribing hit that Bell for future notifications and basically what I did and you can see here I got my test bench everything's fired up on it running installed everything you use for the drivers and all this stuff for aurorus on the DVD it's an external DVD drive and that was it allowed me to show you all the temperatures all that kind of good stuff.

The best AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor - amazing review

we're opening up a new merch store you can check out some of our new gear today at the link in the review description as we've mentioned before AMD is aggressively targeting Intel in terms of core count and pricing packing enthusiast features into their CPUs in order to undercut Intel's Core i5 and core i7 with them appropriately named Rison 5 and rise in 7 CPUs whether they succeeded or not will address a little bit later because first we need some boring technical details both rise in seven and rise in 5 which launches today come with 2 of what 

AMD calls CPU complex or CC X's which is for processing course attached to 8 Meg's of high-speed cache these CCX units communicate with each other over an all-new bus that AMD calls infinity fabric the difference between them is that Rison v comes with two or four individual course disabled through a process called binning whereby faulty or underperforming cores are shut off then the chip is sold at a lower price so if we line up our rise in 5 and rise in 7 CPUs we can see that our 1600 X is basically a cut-down 1800 X while our 1500 X is probably a cut-down 

1700 with tweak'd clock speeds what's unusual about AMD's approach here though is that they've disabled the course symmetrically to make hex core and quad core models the disadvantage is that the quad core model may suffer some performance penalty for not having all of its course on the same CC X but the advantage is that every Rison 5 gets a sit sixteen megabytes of cash and all the other features are there to precision boost xfr simultaneous multithreading neural net inspired branch prediction so when you start to think about it then 

how many cores do you really need and if the answer is any fewer than eight then rise in five starts to sound like a really good way to save a few bucks let's talk about the test AMD included an msi be 350 12 other board in our testing kit but we used our crosshair 6 hero instead for the sake of consistency and on that subject we actually retested all of our AMD chips with the latest bios revision and a new kit of g skill flare x ram which means that we are finally able to give you guys results at ddr4 3200 speeds this along with the rest of our tests table should give us a great picture of how rise in 5 stacks up for extra credit we also tested our rise in 5s with a 4 

gigahertz overclock the best that we could achieve on both of the chips with air cooling oh and by the way our simulated 1600 X we threw that in there too let's kick things off with gaming thanks to their native overclocking support both of our rise in 5 chips managed to pull off some impressive numbers next to their team blue competitors although it is worth noting that the 7600 K can overclock to games like rise of the Tomb Raider and doom in OpenGL mode tend to devour instructions per clock giving our Intel benches a lead unless we overclock on Rison 

which sometimes actually accounts for some major gains in performance here now that's weird what gives with Team Blue your cache is generally going to remain at the same speed unless you overclock it separately but as it turns out rise ins cash just loves getting as much CPU time as it can which favors their infinity fabric connected CCX architecture along with their high core counts so with many cores and higher clock speeds AMD's cache actually becomes more efficient how do we know because when we compared cache benchmarks between our stock and overclocked chips we found major improvements thanks to our over clocks that look in line 

with the differences between the two chips core counts I mean overclocking our 7700 K we saw performance fluctuate a bit but nowhere near this much so this seems to explain some of what we're seeing here in these gaming tests good news for AMD fans looking to overclock then because overclocking adds to multiple performance metrics speaking of which in our synthetic tests we can see that Rison continues to dominate intel's mainstream platforms when it comes to multi-threaded performance what's even more interesting about these results however is that the rise in seven 1,700 frequently ends up matched by our overclocked 1600 X which becomes 

all the more impressive when you consider the performance per dollar that this translates to thanks to the  price difference between the two chips speaking of performance per dollar team red and team blue are neck and neck in this all-important metric a small aside here by the way if you've been paying attention our simulated risin 5 1600 X has also kept up very well with our real 1600 X finally let's talk about thermals something we weren't able to simulate now that we're equipped with AMD's Wraith Max and Wraith spire coolers we can test our risin 5 chips with both stock and aftermarket cooling so for giggles we threw our I are on our overclock 1600 


X and managed to maintain our performance at reasonable if unexceptional temperatures so aftermarket cooling is still recommended for overclocking even on rise ins four and six core variants which leads us to our conclusion then since its launch AMD's new platform has been changing almost daily we're constantly learning new things about how it does perform how its supposed to perform and why and with Rison five ambhi's future becomes much clearer thanks to software and firmware updates that continue to improve rise ins performance and stability with these numbers and pricing Intel may be starting to sweat a little bit remember too that we

 used an X 370 board but you could save a fair bit on the platform overall by stepping down to be 350 if you don't need SLI or even lower if you don't plan to overclock now to be clear Rison doesn't overclock like crazy the platform bugs aren't quite fully ironed out and it still isn't that clear of far and away performance King that a lot of people wanted it to be but what they have done when you factor in the entire suite of tests is deliver just as much bang for the buck as team blue right now and that is a very good thing do you have two computers do you have two keyboards and two mice all over your desk so that you can actually use a four mention two 

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Learn more about Ryzen 5 2600

ModelBrandAMDProcessors TypeDesktopSeriesRyzen 5 2nd GenNameRyzen 5 2600ModelYD2600BBAFBOX
DetailsCPU Socket TypeSocket AM4Core NamePinnacle Ridge# of Cores6-Core# of Threads12Operating Frequency3.4 GHzMax Turbo Frequency3.9 GHzL1 Cache576KBL2 Cache3MBL3 Cache16MBManufacturing Tech12nm64-Bit SupportYesHyper-Threading SupportYesMemory TypesDDR4 2933Memory Channel2PCI Express Revision3.0Max Number of PCI Express Lanes16Thermal Design Power65WCooling DeviceHeatsink and fan included.

The best AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor - amazing review

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