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An accidental leak, just a day shy of the actual announcement, has revealed AMD's plans for its Ryzen R5 CPU line-up. According to a post on Guru3D.com (now removed), AMD Ryzen R5 CPUs will come in four different flavours – two hexacores and two quadcores – with a clear assault on Intel's Core i5 range of CPUs.
At the top the R5 food chain is the $249 Ryzen R5 1600X 6-core/12-thread, which clocks in the highest at 3.6GHz base clock. It is followed by its non-X brethren, the $219 Ryzen R5 1600, at 3.2GHz base clock. Both have a 400MHz boost clock. The hexacores are carved out of two CCX complexes operating the full 16MB of cache, connected by AMD's Infinity Fabric – essentially your standard Summit Ridge design, only with two cores disabled. These come with a 95W TDP rating.
The bottom-half of the R5 line-up is populated by the $189 R5 1500X 3.5GHz (3.7GHz boost) quadcore and the $169 Ryzen R5 1400 at 3.2GHz (3.4GHz boost), also a quadcore. These SKUs are single CCX modules rated at 65W TDP.
All the CPUs in the R5 line-up feature SMT and are unlocked for overclocking.
Here's a handy list of the upcoming SKUs as leaked:
- AMD Ryzen R5 1600X, 6C/12T, 3MB L2, 16MB L3, Base 3.6GHz/Boost 4GHz, 95W TDP, $249
- AMD Ryzen R5 1600, 6C/12T, 3MB L2, 16MB L3, Base 3.2GHz/Boost 3.6GHz, 95W TDP, $219
- AMD Ryzen R5 1500X, 4C/8T, 2MB L2, 8MB L3, Base 3.5GHz/Boost 3.7GHz, 65W TDP, $189
- AMD Ryzen R5 1400, 4C/8T, 2MB L2, 8MB L3, Base 3.2GHz/Boost 3.4GHz, 65W TDP, $169
According to the post, AMD is promising a hard launch, similar to R7, with units being available for shipment on the 11th of April just four weeks from now.
While the R5 1600X seems to offer killer value with higher clocks, more cores and bigger cache (we'd chance saying it could potentially rival an R7 1800X at half the price), benchmarking of the R7 has highlighted some shortcomings of the Infinity Fabric and the dual CCX design. Putting it another way, the R5 1500X single-CCX might be the AMD dark horse you've been looking for if you're a gamer.
KitGuru says: Ryzen R5 has the potential to further shake up the status quo, provided motherboard partners are getting their kit to stores. Intel's Core i5 line-up is dead centre in AMD's sights with this launch and this may trigger another wave of price cuts on Intel's side. More to come in R5 coverage… stay tuned.
I would love to comment on the actual quality of these CPUs especially the Ryzen 1800X I bought at the beginning of this month but motherboards seem to be in short supply (Promised it will be here tomorrow – Fingers crossed). I would love to know the actual reason behind this.
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Actually the 1600 has 65W TDP, also i’d like to know if they come with any decent cooling.
When mobo OEMs got RYZEN engineering samples to test and build the Mobos around by AMD they still weren’t particularly great as they were still quite early samples. Which in turn made OEMs think that when the CPU is released it would be another case of AMD the bulldozer debacle. Where the CPUs weren’t all they cracked up to be leaving a lot of Mobo OEMs with spare boards that they wanted to ship and get rid of.
Between the time the OEMs received their samples and official release of RYZEN to the public AMD had made some significant improvements to RYZEN but OEMs didn’t realise until it was too late how good/popular RYZEN would end up being.
So hence the Shortages at the moment 🙂
I had assumed that was at least part of story just with a unhealthy dose of competitor intervention thrown in for good measure. Either way, I received my motherboard today, just waiting on adapter for CPU cooler. Cheap capable cooler on the way while I wait the extra two weeks. It is all very strange and something I have only witnessed once before in the last 25 years. On that occasion there was much talk about competitor intervention. Maybe its just the secrecy within the tech industry?