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welcome back to harbor unboxed I hope you're all doing well and you're not sick of sick and Gen rising content just yet because today we have more hurt for you as the titles no doubt given away we are checking out the horizon five twenty six hundred and we'll be taking it for a spin on the impressive new a soos ROG crosshair seven hero it's a $300 us x4 seventy board with all the bells and whistles it has to be said though that the horizon 526 hour is probably better suited to something like the ROG strict x4 7f gaming or the prime X 470 Pro given that it is a $200 u.s. processor but 2600 is $30 cheaper than the 2600 X that we looked at last week and that 13% saving sees the operating clock speeds reduced by 6 to 7 percent while the box cooler has been downgraded from the array aspire to the dinky little ray of stealth and we'll check out how that performs later in the video the real competition though comes from the blue team's coffee-like core i5 range in particular the core i5 8400 which comes in almost twenty dollars or less I'm not a huge saving but does make it a little more affordable there are eyes in 520 600 does have two distinct advantages though firstly it can be overclocked and pushing all calls past four gigahertz shouldn't be a problem meanwhile the core i5 8400 is limited to an all core frequency of 3.8 gigahertz however perhaps the biggest advantage is the fact that 2600 is a six core 12 thread processor thanks to the inclusion of SMT support 3400 lacks Intel hyper-threading technology meaning it's a six-course 6 thread CPU and this will hand arisin a serious advantage in core heavy workloads AMD has really been aggressive for pricing on the second gen rising cpus last year the Rison 5 1600 launched at 220 dollars us though it has to be said for most of 2017 it did sell for less than that and then in early 2018 it was officially discounted to $190 us so that means when compared to the discounter price the 2600 is coming in at just a fraction more than the older 1600 apart from improved IPC performance greater efficiency reduced cache latency enhanced memory latency and frequency support the 2600 also comes clocked 6 to 8 at higher than the 1600 out of the box then like the rest of the horizon light the 2600 is also an unlocked CPU so reaching and even exceeding the stock 2600 X performance shouldn't be an issue so for our test setup just a quick recap on that in case you missed the last 32 minute long review on the 2600 X 120 700 X all data has been updated for the release of the second gen Rison CPUs this means all data is fresh and has been gathered in the past two weeks all testing was done with the latest drivers Windows updates motherboard BIOS updates game and application updates and security updates yes the latest specter and meltdown updates have been applied throughout the testing we're looking at stock out-of-the-box performance as well as overclocking the first generalising CPUs have been overclocked to 4 gigahertz while I was able to get the 2600 X stable at 4.1 gigahertz and the 2700 X at 4.2 gigahertz the non X 2600 though was able to boot in the windows and complete a number of tests including Cinebench r15 s multi-threaded test at 4.3 gigahertz using the same 1.37 5 volts that limited the 2600 extra just for point 1 gigahertz unfortunately though cranking the voltage right up still was enough to allow us to stabilize the overclock at four point three gigahertz particularly for our heavy blender workload and we were forced back down a 4.2 gigahertz something else worth noting was that the 2600 would suffer the dreaded blue screen of death when using our g.skill sniper X ddr4 3400 CL 16 memory the integrated controller just doesn't seem to be as good as what we found with the 2600 X and 2700 X therefore I switched to G skills flair exterior for 3200 CL 14 memory you don't really sacrifice much with this lower frequency memory due to the tighter timings this integrated memory controller issue could just be a problem with my chip or it could be more widespread with all of the non ex models time will tell anyway enough chitchat let's get to the good stuff first up here's a quick look at sustained memory performance and as you can see the lower latency CL 14 memory actually edges out the higher clock ddr4 3400 sells 16 memory used by the 2600 X so despite using lower clocked memory the Rison 5 2600 shouldn't be at a disadvantage with the bandwidth creeping just there were 39 gigabytes per second it's got plenty to play with moving on to Cinebench r15 we see the 2600 trails the 2600 x by six percent margin for both d single and multi threaded tests still out of the box that was able to mimic the core i7 7 or X and improved on the older Eisen 5 1600 single thread score by a 9% margin and the multi threads score by an impressive 12 percent margin overclocked it was able to edge out the slightly inferior 2600 X chip and I mean inferior in the sense that it only managed to get to 4.1 gigahertz I suspect though we did get a poor chip it seems like we have a similar situation to the 1600 and 1600 X with the new 2,600 and 2,650 Hertz next up we have the PC mark 10 video editing results and here we can see it these stock risin 5 2600 scores 4901 points which placed it only ahead of the r5 1600 but also just 2% behind these stock 2600 X and core i7 700 X overclocked to 4.2 gigahertz the score jumped up by 12% to reach 5,500 nine points and that's almost on par with the 330 dollar rise in 720 700 X so that's an exceptional result for the 2600 this time with the PC mark gaming test we see that when compared to the horizon 5 1600 the 2600 was 8% faster a litter box and 7% faster once both CPUs were overclocked to the max overclocked the 2600 also matched the horizon 7 1800 X though doodle reduction in cause was 9% slower than the 2,700 X firing up Excel for some spreadsheet action we see the 2600 took just 3.1 seconds to complete the workload when stock and just 2.6 seconds once overclocked that means with both these 1600 and 2600 overclocked to the max the new second journal completed the workload 11% quicker for compression and decompression work for 2600 is 11% fast and the 1600 which is a seriously impressive improvement this puts it almost on par with the core i7 700 X a CPU that costs almost twice as much then moving on we find the 2600 deep trail the 700 it's by a rather large margin for our handbrake test though once overclocked if you rapidly close in of course you can still overclock for similar X and look at those results in a future video overall though this is still a great result for AMD and we see the 2600 is easily able to beat the 77 and Kate clocked at 5 gigahertz running the corona benchmark we see that out of the box the risin 5 2600 and core i7 700 X are comparable which again bodes well for this significantly more affordable AMD CPU moving on to the blender results and we see here that the 2600 needs to be clocked at 4.2 gigahertz in order to beat the stock core i7 a 1700 X still it is worth noting that before overclocking the 2600 is still fast in the core i7 7700 K which was clocked at 5 gigahertz so in terms of value it is still very impressive the v-ray benchmark shows the stock risin 520 600 shaving 11% off the render time when compared to the r5 1600 in fact overclocked to the max the r5 1600 is able to roughly match the stock 2600 meanwhile overclocking the second gen rising CP reduced the render time by a further 13% allowing it to complete the test in 89 seconds for content creators on a budget the horizon 520 600 should it be a hot item as you can achieve 8600 K light performance at a more affordable price even at 5.20 gigahertz the 8600 K is only a fraction faster not this frequency does require expensive cooling and addy lid though please note our chip hasn't been deleted and therefore does run extremely hot I was really impressed to see that even when editing the 2600 is comparable to the higher clocked 8600 K so appears to have no real weakness and is considerably better than the first generalising v 1600 for these types of lightly threaded workloads and of course that is down to the fact that it runs at a higher frequency when only using one or two cause okay so now it's time to do some gaming and first that we have ashes of the singularity running with the DirectX 12 API the rise in cpus would fare a lot better in this title with a radio and GPU as we've shown a number of times in the past unfortunately though right now AMD just doesn't have anything competitive in the high end so it makes more since the test with the GT x 1080 TI of course we would like to test with both it's just not possible due to time and all that sort of stuff anyway in the case of the horizon 520 600 it's still very respectable and overclocked edges at the stock 77 okay and 78 her ex it's also not a great deal slower than the eight core 1800 X and 2700 X moving on to Assassin's Creed origins using the higher quality preset and we see at the 2600 is only slightly faster than the 1600 out of the box that said unlike the 1600 it does see a decent performance bump once overclocked though something is limiting the AMD CPUs to around 98 fps in this title perhaps that could be the envy display driver not a hundred percent sure on that one it's something I'll have to look into overclocked the Rison v 2600 is able to roughly match the horizon 720 700 X in battlefield one and that meant that it was eight percent faster than the 1600 maxed out at four gigahertz so a decent step forward here for AMD especially at the $200 price point reducing the GPU bottleneck by reducing the battlefield one quality preset to the medium setting and does allow the overclocked 8700 KNAT 600 K to run away with it it's still before we overclock the 2600 allowed for over 100 FPS at all times anyway playing far cry 5 the overclocked 2600 basically matched the overclocked 2700 X and this made it one of the fastest rising CPUs we've ever tested in this title although it does trail the coffee lake and KB lag CPUs with a hundred fps or more it's still getting the job done nicely interestingly the six core eyes and CPUs do lag behind a little for the one percent low result in our 12 player bot match and while overclocking the 2600 does help here it still reaches the overwatch frame cap moving on we have vermintide 2 and here we see with the extreme quality preset at Tony peeve the horizon 5 2600 can almost get the most out of the GTX 1080i overclocked it was just 12 percent so old nearly 700 K 9600 K both of which were overclocked to 5.2 gigahertz reducing the GPU bottleneck with the medium quality preset does once again allow the Intel CPUs to run away with it making them a better for high refresh rate gaming as I've noted in the past then moving on to power consumption here we're measuring the peak total system consumption using the Quebec power mode like the core i5 8400 and rise and 5 1600 the 2600 sips of very little power in our ashes of the singularity benchmark and nearly drove total system consumption to just 370 watts overclocked we see an 11% increase to 411 watts which is really a great result for AMD for 2600 again matched the risin 5 1600 this time during 345 watts and we see a 12% increase once overclocked which is still less than the amount of power a stock 7800 extras here we see with the blender workload the 2600 draws less power than the 1600 and again overclocked still consumes less power than a stock core i7 7800 X the handbreak results they were a bit of an eye-opener honestly I was expecting to see more results that looked a bit like this when overclocking because usually we see overclocking just throwing efficiency out the window prior to any overclocking the 2600 is extremely efficient however once we overclock it for this benchmark total system consumption climbed by 88% and the only chance we might have ever seen a worse result here would be if I overclocked the 7800 X finally we have the Premier encode results and here the overclocked 2600 increased total system consumption by just 28% considering the 8600 case or a 32% increase once overclocked that's a decent result for the second gen rise in CPU now let's talk temperatures for testing we maintained an ambient air temperature of 21 to 22 degrees and the azuz ROG crosshair 7 hero along with the risin v 2600 and its box cooler were placed in our coarser crystal 570 X ATX test system under these conditions the Wraith stealth kept the r5 2600 74 degrees our blender stress test moving on to gaming we found under heavy load with utilization hovering between 80 and 90% the temperatures peaked at just 63 degrees and during more typical loads drop down to 59 degrees so for stock performance the little wraith stealth does quite a good job it's also very quiet for our 4.2 gigahertz overclock we did strap on the Corsair H 150 I Pro and this saw a pic temperature when running an hour long blender workload reach to 67 degrees then when gaming we saw temperatures peak at 56 degrees but it is worth noting that for the most part they were below 50 degrees as for overclocking with the Box cooler I was able to reach 4 gigahertz using one point to 3 volts but did hit a temperature of 87 degrees in our blender stress test after an hour for gaming you could afford to push things a little further but if you're doing any kind of heavy workloads 4 gigahertz is probably the limit here finally for those of you wondering stock the risin 5 2600 holds on all core clock speed of 3 point 6 5 gigahertz using the wraith stealth box cooler then upgrading to the h 150 i pro saw the all call frequency jump up to three point seven five gigahertz for the intense hour-long stress test we found the same 100 megahertz increase for the 2600 X and 2700 X when upgrading from the included box coolers last year I declared the risin 5 1600 as the best value CP on the market now whether you're a gamer or you've actually got some real work to do if you rivaled what the 1600 had to offer at the $200 u.s. price point of course the core i5 8400 is an attractive option and arguably the better gaming CPU certainly for today's games but when it comes to core heavy workloads the 1600 just ran away with it and for that reason I really felt that it was the better all-rounder now we have the horizon 520 600 and it's offering I suppose what you could call it incremental upgrade to the previous model and really that's probably all it had to do for those that bought a rise in 5 1600 earlier this year or last year well they're not going to be upgrading to the 2600 they'll probably even hold off on jumping to the 2700 X but for those of you who are building a new PC now you have the choice between a coffee like Core i5 or a second-generation 5 processor and this incremental update has really helped make horizon are more attractive than it was previously the 2600 is also a nice upgrade option for those who purchased a quad core first generation processor the only disappointing aspect of the rival 520 600 is the fact AMD downgraded the bundle to only include the Wraith stealth cooler if only the Wraith spire was included but for that you will need to pony up an extra $30 us for the 2600 X model AMD has been a bit smarter this time around with the ex models still the 2600 is 13% cheaper and was at most 7 percent slower so in terms of value it is still the more cost effective option as for the Isuzu ROG cross s7 hero it's a seriously nice X 470 motherboard and with the latest bios version 509 I worked like a charm of course as I said earlier in the review it's better suited to use with sake Rison 7 models for the 2600 i'd recommend something like the Isuzu prime x4 70 pro or the tough x4 70 + gaming hopefully I can check those board out for you guys in a future video at the time of putting this video together the horizon 520 600 sat in 23rd position on Amazon's bestseller list while the horizon 720 700 exclaimed second spot behind the 8700 K and the r5 1600 was one position from standing on the podium in fourth it's pretty shocking to see how far back the r5 2600 currently is but that might have to do with AMD refusing to supply samples or even let retailers hand them over to us under embargo ahead of the release they obviously wanted their more expensive EX models front and center personally though I do prefer the cheaper Rison 5 2600 to the more expensive 2600 X as I'd be upgrading the cooler regardless of which version I purchased and the low latency ddr4 3200 memory seems like the way to go but let me hand this one over to you guys which model appears to be best for you the 2600 or the 2600 X please let me know in the comments below and that is going to do it for this one if you enjoyed the video please hit the like button subscribe for more content if you appreciate the work we do here at our unbox then consider supporting us on patreon you'll gain 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