AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and Ryzen 7 2700 Review

Test Setup

AMD Ryzen 5 2600
AMD Ryzen 7 2700
ASUS Prime X470-Pro
Corsair LPX 2666MHz
Corsair LPX 3200MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2
nVidia GTX 980
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H110i GT
Corsair ML Fans

 

Overclocking

Ryzen 5 2600

Such is the stern nature of our test suite that the difference between an overclock that will run a few of our benchmarks and an overclock that will happily pass them all is sometimes a little larger than you might imagine. As you can see the Ryzen 5 2600 tops out at 4.16 GHz for our fully stable test, but has the potential to hit 4.29 GHz even with 3200 MHz XMP memory installed. Not a bad effort at all.

  

  

Ryzen 7 2700

The Ryzen 7 2700 is even more impressive, particularly given the amount of cores and threads it’s having to handle. Our best stable overclock is 4.19 GHz, whilst if you’re less bothered about absolute stability we managed to pass a few benchmarks at a whopping 4.39 GHz with 3200 MHz DDR4. 16 threads of 4.2 GHz loveliness should see the Ryzen 7 2700 match up to its Ryzen 7 2700X counterpart.