A review of AMD's upcoming mid-range Ryzen CPU, the 1600, has been published by a website which somehow managed to avoid signing a non-disclosure agreement with AMD. Originally published on Spanish site ElChapuzas (via Hexus), the review paints the chip as rather impressive, keeping pace with its bigger, more expensive brothers and comparably priced Intel hardware too.
The hardware used for testing was:
- MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium
- G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 3600MHz @ 2400MHz
- MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming Z
- be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 1200W
- SSD Kingston SSDNow KC400 128GB
- SSD Corsair LX 512GB
There is a caveat with the results, in that the motherboard used for the purpose of testing has not received expected optimizations for this particular CPU. While that does mean that these results are not entirely accurate, it is encouraging to think that this Ryzen CPU should end up more effective when officially released.
Although El Chapuzas sounds like it has its legal bases covered because of its lack of an NDA, it has guaranteed it won't be getting any hardware from AMD pre-release or likely post, in the future, as AMD has shown itself to be pretty vindictive of sites that it feels have snubbed it in some way.
The Ryzen 5 1600 will launch on April 11, the same date as the other chips in its range, with a price tag of $220.