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AMD Ryzen 5 1500X performance. Even if we're looking at the R5 1500X purely in the context of how it performs up against the Core i3 7350K it ends up looking a little muddled, more so if you bring ...
AMD’s Ryzen 1600X is also in the same league, and it turns out to be the 1500X’s biggest problem. Though it costs $60 more, the 1600X adds two extra cores, which means it significantly beats ...
AMD today takes the covers off its next two Ryzen processors, the 1600X and 1500X. These cheaper CPUs still manage to pack a fairly good punch.
With the Ryzen 5 1500X and Radeon RX 480, it's finally possible to build a compelling all-AMD gaming PC—and a 4-core, 8-thread computer that doesn't break the bank.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is down to the lowest price of the year, and Newegg is also adding a free 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD with ...
Five weeks ago, AMD blew a hole in Intel's high-end desktop pricing with the launch of Ryzen 7. Today, Ryzen 5 is hoping to do the same thing to Intel's Core i5 / i7 market.
There are cheaper Ryzen CPUs on the horizon, though, and these are where AMD will really eat into Intel's market share. The Ryzen 5 series is widely expected to do battle with Intel's mid-range ...
AMD’s Ryzen 5 series of processors should be available soon after you read this, and we’ve got the company’s top 6 and 4-core versions on the test bench, the Ryzen 5 1600X and Ryzen 5 1500X ...
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X on Newegg That concludes our release day coverage of Ryzen 5, but we'll be back soon enough with results for the 1600 and 1400, which should deliver an even greater value than we ...
Across the Ryzen 5 line, AMD believes that 3.9GHz / 4.0GHz overclocks will be common (and that’s on all cores, to be clear). AMD talked quite a bit about gaming with its Ryzen 7 series, but the ...
Here we have two SKUs of Ryzen 5 CPUs for review: the 1600X and 1500X, which retail for $249 USD and $189 USD, respectively. In terms of pricing, these CPUs are intended to compete with Intel’s ...
The 1500X improved by slightly larger margin: 10 percent in Pass 1 and 17 percent in Pass 2. Conclusion. Both the Ryzen 5 1600X and 1500X perform admirably for their price, $249 and $189 ...