![]() ![]() That's faster than even AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X, and it even beats Intel's Core i9-10900K. Assassin's Creed Odyssey has always been the great leveller in my CPU gaming benchmarks, but the other results speak for themselves, offering a 10% improvement in Shadow Of The Tomb Raider and Total War: Warhammer II and 15% in Forza Horizon 4. A frame or two here and there, perhaps, but no more, and certainly not enough to doubt its huge lead over the Core i5-10600K.Īs you can see from the graphs below, even with my RAM clocked at just 2133MHz, the Ryzen 5 5600X is miles out in front of the Core i5-10600K in three of my test games at 1920x1080, and pretty much level in the other. I do have a slightly different motherboard to my previous Ryzen 3000 reviews - Asus' ROG Crosshair VIII Hero, rather than Gigabyte's X570 Aorus Master - but as you'll see in my Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero review, there's really not much difference between them in terms of overall performance. As a result, getting a truly accurate picture of your CPU's performance is tricky, but I've done the best with the equipment available to me.Īs per my other recent CPU reviews, I've used Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti as my graphics card of choice, and 16GB of Corsair's Vengeance RGB Pro RAM, both at its default speed of 2133MHz to keep things in line with other historic results, and at its top speed of 4000MHz to see how much more you can get out of it (spoilers: not a lot). These include your graphics card, the type of RAM you've got installed, and even the kind of storage you use to install your games on. However, there are lots of other factors that can affect your CPU's gaming performance, too. PSU: CoolerMaster MasterWatt 750 TUF Gaming Edition RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB, 2133MHz / 4000MHz Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair Hero VIII Benchmarks are getting better in this respect, with the likes of Shadow Of The Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 4, Assassin's Creed Odyssey and the Total War series all providing a proper, in-depth look at your CPU's performance as well as your graphics card. Not that you'll notice once it's inside your PC, though, as the Ryzen 5 5600X beasted the Core i5-10600K in pretty much every test going.Īs I've mentioned in previous CPU reviews, assessing a processor's gaming performance is still quite a challenging task compared to other components inside your PC, as most built-in gaming benchmarks don't accurately reflect what your CPU's doing. ![]() ![]() It has a base clock speed of 3.7GHz and a max boost clock of 4.6GHz, putting its top speed 200MHz ahead of the 3600X, but 200MHz behind the Core i5-10600K. ![]() Like Intel's Core i5-10600K and the Ryzen 5 3600X before it, AMD's new Ryzen 5 5600X is a 6-core, 12-thread CPU. Whether the Ryzen 5 5600X will maintain its lead once Intel release their upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs by the end of March 2021 remains to be seen, of course, but if you're in the throes of upgrading your PC right now, the Ryzen 5 5600X makes a much better, not to mention more environmentally-friendly foundation for your new system than anything else at the moment. It's an incredible achievement considering the Ryzen 5 5600X's TDP (or thermal design power) is just 65W, and it very much sticks the needle into Intel's 125W Core i5-10600K, showing you don't actually need to throw lots of power at a problem to get better performance. It also costs more than Intel's monstrously powerful Core i5-10600K, which rather takes a sledgehammer to their previous value proposition.įortunately, the Ryzen 5 5600X isn't just faster than the Core i5-10600K, both in terms of its gaming prowess and its multitasking chops, but you also don't need ludicrously fast (and expensive) RAM or an equally beefy cooler and power supply to get the best out of it. The Ryzen 5 5600X, however, isn't just more expensive than its immediate predecessor, the Ryzen 5 3600X. While AMD's outgoing Ryzen 3000 CPUs weren't as quick as their Intel counterparts when it came to gaming performance, their lower prices (and bundled coolers) often made up for it, making them great value options in the face of their Intel competition. Alas, they're also coming at much higher than expected prices, with their mid-range Ryzen 5 5600X starting at a decidedly not-mid-range £280 / $299. When AMD first unveiled their Ryzen 5000 CPUs at the beginning of October, their new Zen 3 architecture hinted at several tantalising performance boosts, both in terms of power efficiency and overall gaming speeds. ![]()
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