AMD Ryzen 5 7600, 6C/12T, 3.80-5.10GHz, boxed

AMD entwickelt seine Ryzen-7000-Familie von Desktop-Prozessoren stetig weiter. Mit der Einführung der Modelle Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700 und Ryzen 5 7600 erweitert der Chipriese das Lineup. Die genannten Ryzen-Prozessoren basieren auf der „Zen 4“-Architektur und verfügen über eine TDP von lediglich 65 Watt. Sie sind sowohl auf Effizienz als auch auf Leistung optimiert und werden mit einem AMD Wraith-Kühler geliefert, der die Optionen und Einstiegspunkte in das Sockel AM5-Ökosystem erweitert. Der hier und heute im Test befindliche AMD Ryzen 5 7600 bietet unterdessen sechs Kerne, 12 Threads, 32 MB L3-Cache und Turbo-Taktraten von bis zu 5,1 GHz. Außerdem beinhaltet der Prozessor eine integrierte Grafikeinheit („iGPU“) AMD Radeon Graphics, basierend auf der RDNA 2-Architektur. Über den Dual-Channel Speichercontroller können bis zu 192 GB DDR5-5200 Arbeitsspeicher in das System eingebunden werden. PCI Express 5.0 gehört ebenfalls zum Funktionsumfang, so dass aktuelle Grafikkarten und schnelle NVMe-SSDs bestmögliche Leistung erreichen.

Die meisten Prozessoren werden nicht im High-End-Segment, sondern im Preisbereich zwischen 150 und 250 Euro verkauft. Wir schauen, welche Modelle dort am sinnvollsten sind.

Zen für den Rest von uns. Die AMD Ryzen 5 7600 ist eine 65-Watt-Raphael-CPU, welche die Hürde für AAA-Spiele und Aufgaben zur Inhaltserstellung senken soll. In diesem Test prüfen wir AMDs Zen-4-Einstiegs-SKU und sehen, wie sie im Vergleich zur Konkurrenz abschneidet, einschließlich Intels Raptor Lake und Alder Lake sowie anderen Zen-3- und Zen-4-Angeboten. Wir bewerten auch, ob dies eine brauchbare CPU für Ihr nächstes Mainstream-Build sein kann.

Nachdem die X-Modelle der Ryzen-7000-Serie lange alleine ausharren mussten und die 65-W-Modelle weiterhin aus der Vorgänger-Generation bedient wurden, stellte AMD Anfang des Jahres die sparsameren Modelle der aktuellen Generation vor. Mit dem Ryzen 9 7900 hatten wir uns zum Start auch das Spitzenmodell mit 12 Kernen angeschaut und urteilten damals, dass dieser bereits mit dem Eco-Mode daherkommt und sich nicht vor der X-Variante verstecken muss. Nun werfen wir einen Blick auf die übrigen beiden Modelle: Den Ryzen 5 7600 und Ryzen 7 7600.

Bevor AMD die Spieler mit den interessanten 3D-Modellen beglückt, schicken sie am 10. Januar 2023 die ersten Non-X-Prozessoren ins Rennen. Ryzen 9 7900, 7 7700 und 5 7600 sollen insbesondere mit einer hohen Effizienz punkten und ermöglichen einen preisbewussten Einstieg in die neue AM5-Generation.

AMD Ryzen 7000 für Sockel AM5 gibt es ab sofort auch in den drei 65-Watt-TDP-Varianten Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700 und Ryzen 5 7600. Abseits der ab Werk reduzierten Verlustleistung und infolgedessen niedrigeren Taktraten entsprechen die drei CPUs den X-Varianten. Wie schnell sie in Anwendungen und Spielen sind, klärt der Test.

We said in our introduction about the importance of being honest with yourself about your usage, but it also behoves you to remember how our graphs work. If you merely glanced at our graphs rather than study them, you might come away from today's review with the impression that the Ryzen 5 7600 isn't all that. It was nearly at the bottom until we hit the games where it absolutely romped home. Bear in mind that our graphs: 1) don't include the old stuff because technology moves so quickly that anything more than about 3 or 4 years old will be way below. For example the Intel Core i9-10900K, a super CPU, matches the Ryzen 5 7600 in Cinebench, whilst the Ryzen 7 3800XT is behind it in the same test and the gaming behemoth of the last generation, the Intel Core i5-12400, is nowhere close. 2) We try and include most of the current stuff you can buy that's also close in a price bracket to the chosen product. So at the other end of the scale the Ryzen 9 7950X or Intel Core i9-13900K would trounce this in rendering tasks, but aren't remotely within budget of people who stretch their budget too far to reach the next model up. Lastly, or 3) many of our tests respond to massive core counts, something the Ryzen 5 7600, whilst still a Hexcore, doesn't offer in the way the aforementioned pair of flagship models do. Which returns us to the discussion about being honest with yourself. As you could see the Ryzen 5 7600is more than good enough to handle some decent light rendering tasks, or even heavy ones if you're patient. Rendering of video and 3D models is unbelievably taxing and the law of diminishing returns is probably never highlighted better than in these tasks. To render at speeds you can really utilise required Pixar to build a 14000 sq.ft building housing 5000 or more CPUs. By that margin taking 30 minutes to blam out a 4K single frame on a CPU costing under 300 notes isn't all that bad. Let's not kid ourselves though. Nobody is expecting a CPU in this sector of the market to let you produce 10 minute 3D short films, or edit your next 90 minute colour-graded blockbuster. The Ryzen 5 7600 is a CPU built for gaming and saving every spare penny to get a better GPU, and in this regard it plays an absolute blinder. In three of our four gaming benchmarks it topped the graph and, this bears highlighting, would have topped those graphs regardless of what we included. Stick in the Core i9 and Ryzen 9 CPUs and the Ryzen 5 7600 is still sitting at the top. The only one it didn't is Watch Dogs: Legion, and if our GPU testing is anything to go by that particular title has all the consistency of cottage cheese. All of which means that, at the time of writing, if you want a gaming processor the Ryzen 5 7600 is the one to buy, almost regardless of budget. Naturally if you spend 50% of your time editing videos for YT or whatever then look elsewhere, but be honest with yourself. Particularly as AMD have been ultra-aggressive with the pricing of the Ryzen 5 7600. £230 is really low for a 6/12 CPU of this capability. If you're either browsing or gaming, why spend more? It's enough to win the AMD Ryzen 5 7600 our OC3D Gamers Choice and Value For Money Awards.

Adding 65W Ryzen CPU SKUs, AMD has furthered the availability and reach of it new AM5 platform.

AMD today expanded its Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" desktop processor lineup with three new affordable models that are designed to take the fight to Intel's expanded 13th Gen 65 W "Raptor Lake" series. In this review we take a closer look at the Ryzen 5 7600 6-core processor, the company's most affordable addition, which has the potential to become its most important one. Historically, Ryzen 5 non-X SKUs such as the 2600 and 3600, ended up being best-selling processors for AMD, as they struck incredible levels of value, competing very well with Intel's popular Core i5 65 W SKUs. With Zen 4, AMD is standardizing integrated graphics, and so a whole new market for AMD has opened up—businesses that buy 65 W Core i5 and Core i7 processors for their offices, and only need integrated graphics. The company's APUs from the past had been novelty products that compromised on CPU features in favor of strong iGPUs—not really something businesses need. With the new 65 W processors reviewed today, the company also includes a cooler in the box, which improves its value-proposition.

What's clear is that AMD Zen 4's position has been strengthened since our launch reviews. The more affordable 65w parts are also more sensible out of the box, and with much more affordable B650 motherboards it means the platform is now viable and in our opinion the obvious choice over AM4 for new system builders, outside of budget builds. This was already true before the arrival of these non-X 65w parts as AMD had cut pricing aggressively over the past few months, but the new CPUs make it all official. There's a chance the original X-parts head back towards their respective MSRPs (and become more expensive), but at that point we'd simply ignore them and just go for the non-X 65w models instead.