AMD Ryzen 5 7600X CPU Review

Rating: 6.5.

Things are heating up in the more budget-friendly segment of the CPU market. Well, I say budget-friendly with trepidation as the circa-£400 and lower mid-range section is still pricey. Now though, we have the new Zen 4 AMD Ryzen 5 7600X that we will be looking at today. And it has tough competition from the slightly more expensive Intel Core i5-13600K Raptor Lake competitor. Plus, there are the old AMD Ryzen 5000 and Intel 12th Gen Core chips to deal with.

So, let’s jump into this review and see how the new six-core, £320 AMD Ryzen 5 7600X performs against the previous generation competitors, as well as the new Core i5-13600K that Leo has reviewed and given us test data for.

Ryzen 5 7600X has 6 cores and 12 threads with 38MB of total cache – 32MB of which is L3. The base clock of the new TSMC 5nm-fabbed chip is listed at 4.7GHz, and the maximum boost clock is 5.3GHz.

The 7600X’s TDP is 105W just like its Ryzen 7 sibling. And there is no boxed cooler, which is arguably sensible for use with AMD’s Precision Boost 2 algorithm. But in this market segment, we can also see some argument for including even a budget heatsink.

There is the integrated RDNA 2 iGPU with actually decent performance capabilities and solid media consumption support.

In the UK, the Ryzen 5 7600X is around £320-330. That puts it around £50-60 cheaper than Intel’s Core i5-13600K competitor and around £100 below the Ryzen 7 7700X.

There is, however, notable competition from Intel’s last-gen Core i5-12600K and the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X; both of those chips are cheaper than the new Ryzen 5. Plus, they can both run on considerably cheaper DDR4 platforms, which is worth bearing in mind. It is also worth noting that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has had a notable price drop in the last few days too.

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