A simulation shows us the performance of ryzen 5 in games

As we know, all Ryzen processors will start from the same die in which cores will be deactivated in order to offer a vast catalog of models to users. All of them will start from the same design of the Ryzen 7 1800X so having one of these we can make a good approximation to what the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 will be.

Ryzen 5 maintains exceptional gaming performance

Techspot has taken its Ryzen 7 1800X and deactivated two cores to simulate a simpler Ryzen 5 1600X, which will be the most interesting model for players with its six physical cores. They have also disabled four cores to simulate the Ryzen 5 1500X although in this case it is less accurate since the exact cores that are disabled cannot be specified and this affects the cache, AMD will disable a complete CCX unit to leave the chip with 4 cores physical and 8 MB of L3 cache. By disabling four cores on the Ryzen 7 1800X we still have 16MB of L3 cache.

After that the processors have been tested in Mafia 3, Far Cry Primal and Battlefield 1. The simulated Ryzen 5 1600X hardly loses performance compared to its big brother, which shows that current games are unable to take advantage of 8-core processors. The Ryzen 5 1500X loses a little more performance but is still extremely competitive, Mafia 3 is the most accused case with a loss of 12.8% although we remember that we went from a processor of $ 499 to one of $ 189, so the balance between Price and performance is exceptional in the smallest of chips.

If we look at Intel we see how the change from a Core i7-7700K to a Core i3-7350K represents a loss of performance of 35% and the reduction in price is much less, we went from a cost of $ 329 to a cost of $ 189 so the balance between price and benefits is much less.

Source: techpowerup