In today's DIY hardware market, the Ryzen 5 5600X processor and B550 chipset motherboard have become the first choice for many players to save the machine, especially for the players who love "League of Legends", "CS:GO", "PUBG", "Forever Doom" these online games, the Ryzen 5 5600X not only has excellent game performance, but also saves the cost performance of the 12th generation Core i5 platform, which is still sharp in 2022!
This time, the author will pass the comparison test to show players the excellent online game performance of the Ryzen 5 5600X. The competitor is the 12th generation Core i5, the strongest representative of the Core i5-12600K, which is a 6+4 core 16-thread processor.
Don't look at the core number and number of threads of the Core i5-12600K are much more than the Ryzen 5600X, but in the performance of online games, the strength of the Ryzen 5600X is not to be underestimated! The results of the next esports online game showdown will be known to players at a glance.
Introduction to the test platform
In the memory part, this time for the Ryzen 5 5600X platform is a set of 2×8GB DDR4-3600 CL16 memory set. At present, DDR4 memory is generally very cheap, like 2×8GB DDR4-3600 CL16 such a set of memory is currently more than 500 yuan.
The Core i5-12600K platform is paired with a D5 version of the Z690 motherboard and a 2×8GB DDR5-4800 CL40 memory set. At present, the price of DDR5 memory has been reduced by a large margin, and sales have also increased, so the author directly matched DDR5 memory for the Core i5-12600K with the times.
The graphics card selection is the RTX3070. At present, the use of Ryzen™ 5 or Core i5 such a mid-range CPU to match a 4, 5,000 yuan graphics card, this kind of saving scheme is very common, very representative.
Since the current Intel 12th generation Core processor with NVIDIA graphics use supports Re-Size BAR Support technology, in order to test fairness, in the later testing session of the article, Re-Size BAR Support is turned off.
Mainstream esports online game showdown
Popular online game test - "Forever Doomed"
"Forever Doom" is a multiplayer action competitive game developed by NetEase's "24 Entertainment Studio". The game is set in a fictional fantasy world where the gods of yin and yang kill each other, causing the world to be in eternal doom. Players play as a hero, collect various resources in the map, compete against other players, and survive to the end.
"Forever Doom" this game, Ryzen™ 5 5600X performance advantages are very obvious!
Popular online game test - "League of Legends"
League of Legends is currently the number one esports game in the world! It is developed by Riot Games in the United States and operated Chinese mainland Tencent Game Agency. In 2018, League of Legends became a competition item at the Asian Games.
"League of Legends" game, both sets of test platforms can achieve a high game frame rate. The performance gap of 7 frames, it can be said that their performance gap is actually very small.
Popular online game test - "CS:GO"
CS:GO is a first-person shooter team competitive game developed by Valve and represented by Perfect World, and is the canonical sequel to the world-renowned CS. It inherits the classic, and players can compete to become the battlefield elite in the rain of bullets.
"CS:GO" is a game that can achieve high game frame rates on both test platforms. The performance gap of 7 frames, it can be said that their performance gap is also very small.
Popular online game test - "PUBG"
PUBG is a tactical competitive shooter sandbox game developed by Blue Hole, which mainly refers to chicken eating chicken. In this game, players need to collect various resources on the game map and fight other players in a shrinking safe area to survive to the end.
PuBG is a game where the two processors are at almost the same level of performance.
Popular online game test - "Overwatch"
Overwatch is a first-person shooter developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released worldwide on May 24, 2016, Chinese mainland represented by NetEase. Set against the backdrop of a futuristic Earth, the game tells the story of the entanglement of humans, Overwatch members, and intelligent machines. Each hero has their own signature weapons and skills.
Overwatch is a game with a clear advantage over the Core i5-12600K.
Popular online game test - "Fortnite"
Fortnite is a 100-player PvP competitive shooter in which players will play as a young man who participates in the selection, competes with other opponents, determines the final winner, and leads everyone to save the village and defend the homeland. In PVE mode, players can team up to explore the world, rescue survivors, and face incoming monsters at night.
Fortnite is a game where the two processors are at almost the same level of performance.
Game test summary: Of the above 6 e-sports online games, the Ryzen™ 5 5600X won 4 games, especially "Forever Doom" has a very large advantage. The Core i5-12600K won in 2 games, but the gap is still very small, and it is obvious that the performance of the Ryzen 5600X in online games is small.
Why does the Core i5-12600K have so many more cores and threads than the Ryzen 5600X, but in the actual game, there is no Ryzen 5600X better? In the author's opinion, if you play games, the 12th generation Core is mainly a performance core (commonly known as a large core) at work, so for the Core i5-12600K, a 6+4 core 16-thread processor, the game mainly relies on its 6 performance cores. The Ryzen 5 5600X is a real 6 core, and the performance optimization is better, so the gaming performance of the Ryzen 5600X is excellent.
CPU power consumption test
I continued to test the AIDA64 FPU grill to test the full-load power performance of the Ryzen™ 5600X and Core i5-12600K processors.
Test Summary: With a proven 7nm process, the AMD Ryzen™ 5600X has a much lower full-load power performance than the Core i5-12600K.
Although the Core i5-12600K uses the new Intel 7 process, it is essentially Intel's 10nm process, so it is still a lot behind AMD 7nm in terms of process.
Compete to save the cost of the machine, the AMD platform is still excellent!
AMD has been known for its high cost performance for many years, which is the main reason why the word "AMD YES" has become popular in the global computer circle.
Next, the author lists the cost of the two sets of test platforms, and everyone can feel amD's outstanding advantages in terms of cost performance!
In the case of better performance of e-sports online games, the amD Ryzen™ 5600X platform saves more than 2,000 yuan compared with the Core i5-12600K platform, and in all fairness, this cost gap is really not small. Investing more than 2,000 yuan in this savings on the graphics card to buy a higher-end graphics card, the Ryzen™ 5600X platform will undoubtedly have more powerful game performance.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that although the Ryzen 5 5600X platform selected this time saves a lot of costs compared with the Core i5-12600K platform, the author did not deliberately save in order to save in terms of configuration. For example, the Asus ROG B550 snow blowing motherboard selected this time is already a very high-end B550 motherboard, WITH ATX standard form factor design, rich interfaces, excellent overclocking capabilities, and can provide a very good performance experience for amD Ryzen™ platform.
Summary of the full text
Since the release of the AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X in November 2020, this Ryzen™ 5 has competed in the 10th, 11th, and 12th generations of Intel Core i5. The still powerful gaming performance proves once again the power of the Ryzen™ 5000 series desktop processors. For the Ryzen 5 5600X, a high-quality and inexpensive mid-range CPU fighter, the author pushes all mainstream players.
For players looking to build a 3A gaming platform, pairing the Ryzen™ 5600X with the RX 6700 XT graphics card is also a good choice. At present, the RX 6700 XT graphics card has dropped to a price of more than 4,000 yuan, the performance is not lost to RTX3070, and with its own Ryzen 5000 series processors, it can also achieve better game performance with the help of SAM technology, and the strength helps you play 2022!