Product Comparison: Intel Core i7-5960X vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
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Intel Core i7-5960X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Intel Core i7-5960X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
- This chip is firmly fixed in the motherboard, good socket.
- I'm happy with how easy it is to install it. Nice processor, seriously.
- I installed it in about 10 minutes, I guess. Very easy.
- It was easy to install. I've done this before.
- Before installing, it's better to read the instructions so that you don't make mistakes like me.
- The performance is much better even for multitasking, and gaming, and I use the same motherboard Socket AM4, which is very nice indeed.
- This is my first CPU on the AM4 platform, it offers great performance in apps running Win 10.
- Ryzen uses an all new architecture and requires an AM4 motherboard. Good.
- Great value for the money. Great AM4 socket.
- Has AM4 socket for my case. I like it.
Intel Core i7-5960X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Intel Core i7-5960X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Intel Core i7-5960X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Intel Core i7-5960X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Intel Core i7-5960X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
- Fantastic speed, easy overclock to 4.9Ghz with no more than 63C, very happy with this processor.
- Absolute beast of a CPU. I can play games with higher settings.
- Very easy to overclock to 4.5GHz. Really super processor.
- 8 cores accomplishes a lot of work, and does so with no lag at all.
- Great CPU overall. Extremely fast with those 8 cores and 16 threads.
- Speed and quality is absolutely astounding.
- The burst clock ups the processor speed to 4.2 Ghz.
- Great price and performance. Snappy speeds.
- Good processor with great boost clock speeds.
- Clock speeds, wattage and temperatures are right where they should be.
Intel Core i7-5960X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Intel Core i7-5960X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
- I can work simultaneously in Photoshop, Illustrator and the processor does a great job. Cool cache.
- The memory cache and the cores is amazing.
- One of the top performing processors, with 20MB of cache and 8 cores.
- This powerful processor works great with 32GB of RAM.
- The memory bandwidth is incredible. Very fast.
- Great gaming CPU. Great memory.
- Amazing processor for the money. Good memory speed.
- Has great DDR4 memory type!
- The little engine that could, AMD does! Massive cache!
- I like this CPU for my build. Memory is great.
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