AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

• 3DMark: 19483
• Unigine: 5521
• PCMark 10 (Express): 4909
• WPrime: 4.831/136.886
• CineBench R15: 160/1255
• Handbrake: 49.2

The Ryzen 5 series was always a strong contender, offering some pretty damn impressive performance and it looks like that hasn’t changed. Of course, the 2600X takes the lead, but given the drastically lower TDP and reduced clock speeds of the R5 2600, it’s hardly slacking when it comes to great scores here.

In 3DMark, it hit an impressive 19483, which is pretty much the same as the Intel Core i5 8400 which costs around the same too. Furthermore, Unigine performance is pretty tight too, showing that PCIe throughput isn’t an issue here, and again very similar to the Intel 8400. The Intel chip did pull ahead in PCMark 10, although that benchmark always favours Intel heavily, likely based on single core performance; the R5 2600 still put up a great score of 4909.

For the heavy duty testing of WPrime, CineBench and Handbrake, the extra core count of the Ryzen 5 did help a lot. With six cores and eight threads, it’s able to keep an impressive pace. Interestingly, the WPrime score of 136 seconds was just 2 seconds off of the 2600X time of 134 seconds. It’s also significantly faster than the Intel 7740X, 8600K and 8400 which are all 168 – 190 seconds. Cinibench shows that Intel still has the single core performance nailed down, but with a multi-core score of 1255, even the i5-8600K is left far behind at just 1035. That core count helps with 4K transcoding too, hitting an impressive 49.2 FPS, nicely ahead of the i5-8400 and 8600K which scored 42.6 and 45 FPS respectively.

3DMark Firestrike

Unigine Superposition

PCMark 10 Express

WPrime

Cinebench R15

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K