AMD's New $230 Ryzen 5 7600 CPU | Review & Benchmarks (ft. PBO)

AMD's new Ryzen 5 CPU is a 7600 non-X, which is cheaper than the 7600X, lower power, and basically has Eco Mode pre-applied. It gets most the performance of the 7600X, but for a lower cost. The closest competition is AMD's own 7600X, then Intel's 12600K, and on the higher side, the 13600K (but that's closer to the R7 7700 in price). We have two separate reviews coming up for the R7 7700 and R9 7900. Testing includes comparisons with PBO (Precision Boost Overdrive) on the 7600, making it similar to the 7600X.

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00:00 - AMD's Non-X CPUs
01:19 - Specs, Prices, & Competition
04:00 - Gaming Benchmarks: Far Cry 6 CPU Benchmarks
05:22 - CSGO CPU Benchmarks (AMD vs. Intel for Counter-Strike)
05:40 - Explaining Why The Change Isn't Bigger
07:04 - Final Fantasy XIV Benchmarks
07:48 - Rainbow Six Siege
08:25 - GPU Limitation Benchmark 7600 vs. 13600K
09:17 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider 7600 vs. 7600X
09:44 - AMD's Misleading Power Statements
11:57 - Power Consumption of AMD vs. Intel
13:37 - CPU Energy Efficiency Benchmarks
14:53 - Blender Rendering Benchmarks (Best CPUs)
16:17 - Chromium Code Compile
17:10 - Compression & Decompression Benchmarks
18:37 - Adobe Premiere Video Editing CPU Comparison
19:31 - Adobe Photoshop Best CPUs
20:02 - Talking About Value

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Host, Writing, Test Lead: Steve Burke
Testing: Patrick Lathan
Testing, Video Editing: Mike Gaglione
Writing: Jeremy Clayton
Camera, Video Editing: Vitalii Makhnovets

[jameserwin]

I truly think the price of the AM5 CPU has nothing to do with the poor sales. It's mostly the MB and RAM and well everything else overpriced to get an AM5 system. You can spend 50% on an AM4 system and get 90%+ of the performance. Once the MB and RAM come down in price to something reasonable they will start selling AM5 CPU at record numbers. It's that simple.

[thatboiswoy]

Biggest problem is the current price for mainboards. I mean back when I bought a new CPU for like 250$ you still only had to pay around 80$ for a decent motherboard.
Currently you can only expect double the price for the same spec motherboard and pretty expensive DDR5 RAM. So AM4 is still a better pick sometimes.

[falcie]

I appreciate GN putting the "expertise meter" before all videos like this. While years of experience don't always mean better quality reviews and content, that is the general trend. It adds a lot to credibility.

[GregSalazar]

I always love seeing the result of the time, effort, and thought you put into your videos. 🙌

[jasonjavelin]

“This quote is phenomenally stupid in so many ways”

This is why I love this channel. No sugarcoating and straight to the point data

Also your coasters are sick

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really respect how you're endlessly looking out for the consumer, even to the point of starting with the cheapest and most mass-market appealing cpu of this launch

[regeanewolfe]

About time something affordable and decent took the news, it's been overpriced stuff for a while

[Notrelevanthere]

Gonna sound weird... Lighting on this updated set looks a lot better than the previous videos!

Not saying that the previous videos were poorly lit; just that this one stands out much more.

[mangaas]

These PC tech channels are invaluable to consumers. I wish this stuff existed when I was younger, building PC's in the early 2000's. Back then, you were just listening to some old man in a PC parts store, and hoping they weren't lying or exaggerating, then going to another store and comparing prices, lol.

[leesanction]

Healthy competition between AMD and Intel made this possible. If only we can see this in the GPU market...

[MrCHUPN]

The commentary around TDP shenanigans is my biggest takeaway from this video--thank you Steve and team for the education as always. As a non-engineer and participant in computing and gadgets, I always assumed you could estimate the amount of wattage from TDP. (So many videos I see out there about the Steam Deck and handheld computing devices, which talk about TDP, use 15W TDP as a base to estimate battery life, before adding on the screen and fan consumption.)

[mikek]

Almost 10 months later since the posting of this video and motherboard prices are still outrageous.

[twincitiesberrycompany]

Glad to see the non x SKUs coming out, along with hopefully inevitable price drops. This at $200 within 6 months or so will be great.

[alexbenh]

Great video as always Steve. I would like to request one new chart(s) if possible for future cpu reviews. As you mentioned, gaming rarely maxes out cpu's but Id love to see the average watts per frame across some of your standard games to see gaming efficiency. Even though the 13600k clearly blows past the 7600 when looking at max wattage, Id love to see the actual wattage pulled when gaming and compare wattage to framerate.

[sevypleb]

Thanks for showing the Warhammer 3 chart, it's still helpful for us newbies or convince our friends why they don't need to spend more money on a certain CPU when they play certain games. Still useful! I wouldn't mind you guys showing us at least 1 game or scenario when there's a bottleneck elsewhere as it helps people like me understand more aspects.

[bzdtemp]

My current rig started life with a 3600 which I then upgraded 6 months ago to a 5800x3D. If I was to build a mid-range rig today I would absolutely go for the AM5 platform, being able to upgrade later on by swapping just the CPU is really nice (less ewaste, quick upgrade with no need to reinstall... and cheaper than swapping both mboard and CPU).

[randocrypto]

1:32 minor correction: The 7700 has 16 threads. Not 12. Even GNs stellar quality control isn’t airtight! Love the work you guys put out.

[jordanclock]

It's pretty impressive to see the 7600 so frequently match or come very close to the 5800X. That's a $230 CPU matching a $450 (MSRP at launch) CPU just one generation later while losing 2c/4t and using around 2/3 the power.

[madmatt]

I used the R5 7600 in my build a few weeks ago and have been nothing but happy with the way it performs. One thing I have to say is that if you do go with this CPU, absolutely run the curve optimizer in Ryzen Master. Running Cinebench R23 With PBO enabled, my 7600 was running at 81C at 4.9ghz all cores, and was at its power limit using a Thermalright Peerless Assassin cooler. I set the curve optimizer to "per core" and left the default -30mV offset in place. After it was done, it applied the maximum -30mV offset to all cores. I ran it again, this time with a -40mV offset, hoping to find the undervolting limit of this CPU, it set all of the cores to the limit again. With the -40mV curve applied in the BIOS, temps are now 65C at 5.1ghz on all cores, and it was using 15W less power. I also gained around 300 points in Cinebench. I could push it farther with a -60mV offset or up the boost frequency but I really don't see the need.

[gnovincejr]

Man!!! That background is Think I will buy something from your store just because of that! All it takes from me sometimes! 😁