Guru3D Content Review: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X - Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X processors

Well, in what way does the price make sense?

 

Yup, like I was saying, the 5600X is more than good enough, for now. Though, if you're looking for the best bang-for-buck for today's games (especially if you expect to overclock), the 10600K is actually the best choice. But key word there is today's games.
IIRC, the 10700K is also a better value than the 5800X for gaming purposes. But, that's why I want to wait for the 5700(X) since I think that will be a better value. If I end up getting an RX 6000 GPU, a Ryzen 5000 is the more obvious choice due to the improved memory access and PCIe 4.0.

Yeah, I really don't see a point in the 5900X if all you care about is gaming.

 

The 5600X is looking real boxing clever. Cannot wait for the 6 series GPU's to come out. Then 5600X will be able to get access to the GDDR. For bigger FPS scores.

 

Competition my friends, that's good to all of us. Now more than ever we all have solid options in any category of CPUs.

 

I think the new pricing is disappointing, but not entirely unexpected. If I recall, the rationale behind AMD's previous, cheaper pricing was that they wanted to increase market share at the expense of revenue so that consumers and app developers would notice and adopt them.

As such, it was inevitable that they would increase prices once that objective was achieved. After all, even the Steam Survey is now showing good gains for AMD so market share is no longer a problem. They can now focus on revenue and making a good profit.

 

Got one

Geekbench5

3600:

1246
Single-Core Score
7545
Multi-Core Score

5600x:

1560
Single-Core Score
8227
Multi-Core Score

AIDA64 latency test. 70.1 vs 63ns

 

I find the comment in pricing really wrong.
They are higher than before but saying `Why so high` seems just wrong.
How would you make coexist 2 series of CPUs, without completely loosing margin and without raising the price of the newer one?
You perfectly know that if you want to buy it cheaper, you have just to wait.

 

Again, would love to buy one of these, but can't find any that aren't scalped on ebay for 1 grand plus....this again...really has to stop.

 

I hope people stop buying things for outrageous prices. Who really needs this CPU so much?

 

The normal MSRP for the CPU is fine. And I want the CPU. I'd like to hit that magic 144hz on my 2k monitor. This cpu coupled with the right card can do that.

If you mean the scalper prices then I agree. I will never give in to those scalpers buying a 499-549 USD CPU and selling it for 1k+.

Plus some of us sell our old hardware, help a friend out and buy new half off.

 

You did it AMD. My next cpu will not be Intel. Take my money!

 

Surprised you're bitter... Zen 2 costs less now and remains very competitive.

 

Or...it will as with any previous generation and new memory will be initially slower than the old one because of lower clocks and much worse timings.
I happened with DDR2, DDR3, and DDR4 as well.

 

Prices are higher than MSRP here but that to be expected...
What i was shocked a bit(just a bit) is that out of all the Zen 3 cpus the 5950X is the one that sold out almost entirely, i managed to place an order probably on the last stock for now.
Hopefully it will be here in the next 2 days

 

My entire life, since my first PC, 486 DXII @80Mhz was Intel and then added Nvidia ( 5700 ) GPU with a Pentium. Since then I'm hardcore of this duo, never have had any AMD except one time that I got a 7950.

For first time if I was in the market for PC right now, best perf/value ever 5600X CPU and the equivalent of RDNA2 5600 AMD GPU ( assuming this is gonna be the name that will compete with Nvidia's 3060 GPU. An entirely AMD PC with a Gigabyte Aorus Pro M/B. I would be happy as hell, but the games I play and my 9700K & 1660 Super GPU is more than enough for my 75Hz display. Both never exceed 50-55% CPU/GPU utilization and the GPU especially with FPS Limiter and VSync, never goes above 1200Mhz ( 1935 max ).

P.S. I truly think the AMD's partnership with Microsoft's XBOX will do wonders for PC, too.

 

I watched situation here, and 5600X/5800X were sold out in almost same time. Then after few hours 5900X. And only after that 5950X.
But 5600X and 5800X are again available.

 

Thinking more about smart access memory, it's genius move by AMD cause SAM is like bringing PS5 optimizations to PC hardware. PS5 has large pool of GDDR6 as it's combined system memory plus graphical memory, so all games are designed from ground up to utilize this large pool of unified GDDR6 memory. Makes you wonder once games roll out with full optimisations to that approach, the kind of performance uplift could be greater than already shown so far.

 

That's a good sign.
I was suppose to buy the 5950X at 8am on Friday but someone managed to snag it before me.

 

i have my 5950xt on order. got a bundle w/msi meg unify x570.

i'm super tempted to buy that new EK am4 block but it's so freaking expensive... like 3/4 the cost of a kick ass loop by itself so for now i'll continue to use my Phanteks glacier block.

this system is going to look like a model airplane missing parts for a bit until the gpu is available more widely. i was torn between an rtx 3080 and rtx 3070 but now i'm glad to wait for the RX 6800XT for less money and better performance. that will have to wait as i blew my wad on the mobo/5950xt.

 

All of a sudden the core i9 10900k is running to and fro within the table, is it afraid of the new comers? And ryzen 9 5950x is always sitting at the top. It is just simply put, amazing, how a single cpu can be the best at everything. The review was about the 5600x but my eyes were always seeking for the 5950x position... And there it was, always comfy at the top. Single core, multi core, gaming, even temperatures relative to core count. I like it.