AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 8 / Mar 2017
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3300 MHz / Cores: 6 / Jun 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    120%
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    100%
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    131%
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 31% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 20% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

None

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 7 1800XAMD Ryzen 5 1600X
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
XFR

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 7 1800XAMD Ryzen 5 1600X
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsAMD Zen
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsZen
Release DateMar 2017vsJun 2017

Cores

AMD Ryzen 7 1800XAMD Ryzen 5 1600X
Cores8vs6
Threads16vs12
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 7 1800XAMD Ryzen 5 1600X
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs512 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KBvs16384 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 7 1800XAMD Ryzen 5 1600X
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket AM4
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvsuPGA
Die Size192mm²vs192mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 7 1800XAMD Ryzen 5 1600X
Cpu Frequency3600 MHzvs3300 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvs3700 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP95 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    4400 points
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    4070 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    38649 points
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    26571 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Rendering: POV-Ray 3.7

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    3404
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    2545

points per second - higher is better

7-zip

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    39406
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    31310

MIPS - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Single Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    103.7
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    104

points - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Multi Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    1160.2
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    860.58

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    162
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    161

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
    1619
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    1245

points - higher is better