According to leak from the Chinese forum tieda.baidu, there are what appear to be the first benchmarks on the upcoming AMD Ryzen 5 CPUs which should become available next month. The forum post shows the performance of the hexa core CPU in CPU-Z and Cinebench R15 benchmarks. According to what we have heard so far, AMD will introduce four different CPUs, including two six-cores and two quad-cores. This way AMD is planning to attack Intel's Core i5 CPU series lineup.


So far AMD's Ryzen CPU lineup includes 3 eight-core processors and the pack is led by the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, followed by the Ryzen 7 1700X and the Ryzen 7 1700. The base clock frequency ranges from 3.0 GHz to 3.6 GHz and all CPUs feature SMT, enabling 16 logical CPUs.

Thanks to a leak from Guru3D, we also know that AMD is going to introduce four additional models featuring six-core and quad-core CPUs. The hexa-core chips are going to be called AMD Ryzen 5 1600X and Ryzen 5 1600. Both models feature a TDP of 95W, six-cores and SMT enabling 12 threads. The base clock frequency ranges from 3.2 GHz to 3.6 GHz and the boost clock range is 400 MHz. After that we find the AMD Ryzen 5 1500X and the AMD Ryzen 5 1400. These two quad-core processors feature eight logical threads and a base clock that ranges between 3.2 GHz and 3.5 GHz. The boost clock is set to 3.4 GHz for the first model and to 3.7 GHz for the second one. Both models feature a TDP of 65W.

Last but not least, AMD will round the lineup off with two Ryzen 3 CPUs, the Ryzen 3 1400 and the Ryzen 3 1200. Both these chips will feature base clock speeds in the region of 3.2GHz, and boost clocks around 3.4GHz. Like all Ryzen CPUs these models will support overclocking, which could turn these CPUs into great budget performers.

Having all those new chips in the lineup soon AMD is planning to attack Intel's Core i5 and i3 series models. Meanwhile, thanks to a leak from tieda.baidu, there are finally some first performance numbers floating around regarding the upcoming 6-core models. Since the chip that has allegedly been tested might be an Engineering Sample, we are not sure about the frequency on this model and it’s also not certain whether this values are actually really representative for the final performance.

Having a look at the CPU-Z benchmark, the upcoming AMD hexa-core chip is supposed to be as fast as an Intel Core i7-5960X processor in both the single core and the multithreaded testing routine. In the case of Cinebench R15 the performance is not on the same level. With a stock speed of 3.3 GHz and with a boost clock set to 3.7 GHz, the AMD chip is not able to outperform the Intel Core i7-3930K which is quite an old six-core CPU. Overclocking the Ryzen 5 CPU to 4.0 GHz finally makes the AMD Ryzen 5 competitive with the Sandy Bridge-E CPUs. If those results are actually true, then they are a little bit disappointing.







Source: Baidu