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Ryzen 5 1600

HeX said:
Quite the opposite. Memory speed has a decent effect on Ryzen performance.
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The web site report you quote is a typical example of being careful with reviews and real world performance and balancing a reviewers findings with ones own goals. The test rig pairs a Ryzen 5 1600 cpu with a GTX 1080 which I just can't see happening in the real world as I assume people spending £500 on a graphics card are unlikely to use a £200 processor. A Ryzen 5 class processor is more likely to be paired with a 1060 or 1070 if using an Nvidia GPU or a R480/R580 if staying with AMD. This review (like many others) shows a fall off in the incremental percentage gains above DDR 2666, which although they exist, probably won't make much difference and the gains would likely be less if using a GTX 1060 as I do - does anyone really notice a few frames per second when focused on gaming? It is also based on 1980x1080 monitor which is what the majority of people seem to use just now but my particular system has a 2560x1440 setup which is much more dependent upon the GPU. So I accept that memory speed affects performance - but not necessarily by anything like as much as shown in many of the test rigs used by reviewers and that for people on a budget looking to get best value there is always a sweet spot beyond which gains are still possible but at a price.
 
So is ryzen not for high end builds who want high performance. So if wanted to play games at max settings on a high Res like 3440x1440 or 4k, ryzen ain't the way to go?
 
bakes0310 said:
So is ryzen not for high end builds who want high performance. So if wanted to play games at max settings on a high Res like 3440x1440 or 4k, ryzen ain't the way to go?
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Quite the opposite, at 4k gaming the ryzen pulls ahead. Not by much but it is ahead, of course most CPU's would be just fine at 4k as the onus is on the GPU.
 
gavinh87 said:
Quite the opposite, at 4k gaming the ryzen pulls ahead. Not by much but it is ahead, of course most CPU's would be just fine at 4k as the onus is on the GPU.
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Really that's quite interesting. So then it really wouldn't be wasted if I got a 1600 and put it with a 1080ti then. Shame I didn't wait 3 months as I upgraded to a itx 6700k build. Love it but I would have been able to save some pennies and got a 1080ti instead of a 1080.
 
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What this doesn't show is the minimums on the ryzen which are usually a fair bit higher. I'm not saying you should swap out your 6700k but for a new buyer my money would be on the 1600 over the 7700.
 
Don't let the exceptional price of Ryzen cpus distract from the performance they give. The market for cpus have been at intel's mercy until now.

I see no reason to not pair a Ryzen 1600 with a 1080ti especially when using a monitor higher than 1080p. I would do that or a gtx 1080 at 1440p without question.

It's also true that a few graphs don't really show the smoothness on a Ryzen cpu. I have noticed the difference going from a 2600k at 4.5 Ghz to the R5 1600 at 3.9 GHz in gaming and desktop use while gaming.
 
Davanius said:
Don't let the exceptional price of Ryzen cpus distract from the performance they give. The market for cpus have been at intel's mercy until now.

I see no reason to not pair a Ryzen 1600 with a 1080ti especially when using a monitor higher than 1080p. I would do that or a gtx 1080 at 1440p without question.

It's also true that a few graphs don't really show the smoothness on a Ryzen cpu. I have noticed the difference going from a 2600k at 4.5 Ghz to the R5 1600 at 3.9 GHz in gaming and desktop use while gaming.
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Likewise GPU prices seem heavily inflated without AMD really being able to compete.

Almost every day I'm reminded what terrible situation we'd be in regarding PC's if we didn't have AMD at all.

We really need them to do well. I'll support them where I can - and Ryzen, despite it's issues, represents such exceptional value for money, I didn't think twice.
 
Been playing around with the BIOS settings a bit and got memory speed up to 1464MHz (clock doubled to 2928DDR) at stock voltage of 1.2v. I can't get it up to 3200 and assume that is because the memory is at command rate of 1T as reported by CPU-Z and I can't see anywhere in the BIOS to change the command rate. Does anyone know how to change the command rate to Corsair's recommended setting of 2T or is this why others are struggling to get their memory to run at the correct overclocked speeds?
 
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