Today we're checking out the $200 Ryzen five 2600 and nosotros'll be taking information technology for a spin on the impressive new Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero, a $300 AMD X470 motherboard with all the bells and whistles you can imagine. Even though the Ryzen v 2600 is better suited to more affordable motherboards like the ROG Strix X470-F Gaming or the Prime X470-Pro because its toll, the motherboard choice shouldn't affect performance while we go the opportunity to showcase this ROG board, in what is another of the multiple different tests we've planned for the coming weeks.

The R5 2600 is $30 cheaper than the 2600X we tested on 2nd-gen Ryzen'south launch day. That xiii% saving sees operating clock speeds reduced past vi-seven%, while the box libation has been downgraded from the Wraith Spire to the dinky lilliputian Wraith Stealth. We'll check out how that performs later on on.

The real competition though comes from the blue team'south Coffee Lake Core i5 range, in particular the Core i5-8400 which is a little more affordable at $179. The Ryzen 5 2600 does accept ii distinct advantages though: first, it can be overclocked and push button all cores past 4 GHz, meanwhile the i5-8400 is limited to an all core frequency of 3.8 GHz.

Second, and peradventure the biggest advantage is that the Ryzen R5 2600 is a 6-core/12-thread processor. The 8400 lacks Hyper-Threading meaning information technology'south a 6-core/6-thread CPU and this will paw Ryzen a serious advantage in cadre heavy workloads.

AMD has stayed on an ambitious annotation when pricing 2nd-gen Ryzen CPUs. Last twelvemonth the Ryzen 5 1600 launched at $220, though information technology eventually was sold for a bit less until it was officially discounted to $190 early this twelvemonth. The 2600 is coming in at just a fraction more than the older and discounted 1600. Apart from improved IPC performance, greater power efficiency, reduced enshroud latency, enhanced retentivity latency and frequency support, the 2600 also comes clocked 6-8% higher than the 1600 out of the box. Then like the rest of the Ryzen lineup the 2600 is likewise an unlocked CPU, so reaching and exceeding stock 2600X operation shouldn't be an event.

Earlier the testing, but a quick epitomize in case you missed last week thorough review of the 2600X and 2700X. All the information has been updated for the release of the second-gen Ryzen CPUs, this ways information technology's all fresh and has been gathered in the by ii weeks. All testing was washed with the latest drivers, Windows updates, motherboard BIOS updates, game and application updates and security updates. Yes, the latest Spectre and Meltdown patches have been practical.

Throughout the testing we'll exist looking at stock out of the box performance likewise as overclocking. The 1st gen Ryzen CPUs have been overclocked to 4 GHz while I was able to get the 2600X stable at 4.1 GHz and the 2700X at 4.two GHz. The vanilla 2600 was able to kick into Windows and complete a number of tests at iv.3 GHz using the aforementioned one.375 volts that limited the 2600X to but 4.1 GHz. Unfortunately though cranking the voltage right up didn't allow us to stabilize the overclock for our heavy Blender workload, so nosotros were forced down to 4.2 GHz.

Something else worth noting was that the 2600 would suffer the dreaded blueish screen of death when using our G.Skill Sniper X DDR4-3400 CL16 memory, the integrated retentiveness controller doesn't seem to be as good as what we plant with the 2600X and 2700X. Therefore I switched to Chiliad.Skill'south FlareX DDR4-3200 CL14 retention, you don't really cede much with this lower frequency memory due to the tighter timings.

This could but be an issue with my fleck or it could be more widespread with the non-X models, time will tell. Anyway enough chit conversation, allow'southward get to the good stuff.

Benchmark Time

Kickoff upward hither's a quick look at sustained memory performance and equally you can see with lower latency CL14 memory actually edges out the higher clocked DDR4-3400 CL16 retention used by the 2600X. So despite using lower clocked retention the Ryzen v 2600 shouldn't exist at a disadvantage, with a bandwidth of just over 39 GB/s it's got enough to play with.

Moving to Cinebench R15 we see that the 2600 trails the 2600X past a vi% margin for both the single and multi-threaded tests. Still out of the box information technology'southward able to mimic the Core i7-7800X and improves on the older Ryzen 5 1600's single thread score by a 9% margin and the multi-threaded score by an impressive 12% margin.

Overclocked though information technology edges out the slightly inferior 2600X fleck which managed just 4.ane GHz, I suspect we got a poor fleck. It seems like we have a like state of affairs to the 1600 and 1600X with the new 2600 and 2600X, both should be practiced for around the same overclock, this fourth dimension 4.1 - 4.2 GHz.

Next up we take the PCMark 10 video editing results and here the stock Ryzen five 2600 scores 4901 pts which placed it only just ahead of the R5 1600 simply also simply 2% behind the stock 2600X and Core i7-7800X.

Overclocked to iv.2 GHz the score jumped upwardly by 12% to reach 5509 pts and that's almost on par with what the $330 Ryzen vii 2700X offers out of the box, so that's an exceptional event for the 2600.

This fourth dimension when compared to the Ryzen 5 1600 the 2600 was eight% faster out of the box and 7% faster once both CPUs are overclocked to the max. Overclocked the 2600 likewise matched the Ryzen 7 1800X though due to a reduction in cores was 9% slower than the 2700X.