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Rison five many of you have been waiting patiently hurt impatiently for its big debut something which we are what up you're gonna get rekt look at these comments what is this who are you huh I'm I'm you from the future if you release this simulation of AMD rise and performance everybody's going to hate you simulation what simulation I've got rising five right here no you don't understand I just wait this is the review Great Scott I've gotta go I set the dial wrong welcome then to our risin 5 review we're opening up a new merch store you can check out some of our new gear today at the link in the video description as we've mentioned before AMD is aggressively targeting Intel in terms of core count and pricing packing enthusiast features into their CPUs in order to undercut Intel's Core i5 and core i7 with them appropriately named Rison 5 and rise in 7 CPUs whether they succeeded or not will address a little bit later because first we need some boring technical details both rise in seven and rise in 5 which launches today come with 2 of what AMD calls CPU complex or CC X's which is for processing course attached to 8 Meg's of high-speed cache these CCX units communicate with each other over an all-new bus that AMD calls infinity fabric the difference between them is that Rison v comes with two or four individual course disabled through a process called binning whereby faulty or underperforming cores are shut off then the chip is sold at a lower price so if we line up our rise in 5 and rise in 7 CPUs we can see that our 1600 X is basically a cut-down 1800 X while our 1500 X is probably a cut-down 1700 with tweak'd clock speeds what's unusual about AMD's approach here though is that they've disabled the course symmetrically to make hex core and quad core models the disadvantage is that the quad core model may suffer some performance penalty for not having all of its course on the same CC X but the advantage is that every Rison 5 gets a sit sixteen megabytes of cash and all the other features are there to precision boost xfr simultaneous multithreading neural net inspired branch prediction so when you start to think about it then how many cores do you really need and if the answer is any fewer than eight then rise in five starts to sound like a really good way to save a few bucks let's talk about the test AMD included an msi be 350 12 other board in our testing kit but we used our crosshair 6 hero instead for the sake of consistency and on that subject we actually retested all of our AMD chips with the latest bios revision and a new kit of g skill flare x ram which means that we are finally able to give you guys results at ddr4 3200 speeds this along with the rest of our tests table should give us a great picture of how rise in 5 stacks up for extra credit we also tested our rise in 5s with a 4 gigahertz overclock the best that we could achieve on both of the chips with air cooling oh and by the way our simulated 1600 X we threw that in there too let's kick things off with gaming thanks to their native overclocking support both of our rise in 5 chips managed to pull off some impressive numbers next to their team blue competitors although it is worth noting that the 7600 K can overclock to games like rise of the Tomb Raider and doom in OpenGL mode tend to devour instructions per clock giving our Intel benches a lead unless we overclock on Rison which sometimes actually accounts for some major gains in performance here now that's weird what gives with Team Blue your cache is generally going to remain at the same speed unless you overclock it separately but as it turns out rise ins cash just loves getting as much CPU time as it can which favors their infinity fabric connected CCX architecture along with their high core counts so with many cores and higher clock speeds AMD's cache actually becomes more efficient how do we know because when we compared cache benchmarks between our stock and overclocked chips we found major improvements thanks to our over clocks that look in line with the differences between the two chips core counts I mean overclocking our 7700 K we saw performance fluctuate a bit but nowhere near this much so this seems to explain some of what we're seeing here in these gaming tests good news for AMD fans looking to overclock then because overclocking adds to multiple performance metrics speaking of which in our synthetic tests we can see that Rison continues to dominate intel's mainstream platforms when it comes to multi-threaded performance what's even more interesting about these results however is that the rise in seven 1,700 frequently ends up matched by our overclocked 1600 X which becomes all the more impressive when you consider the performance per dollar that this translates to thanks to the $80 price difference between the two chips speaking of performance per dollar team red and team blue are neck and neck in this all-important metric a small aside here by the way if you've been paying attention our simulated risin 5 1600 X has also kept up very well with our real 1600 X finally let's talk about thermals something we weren't able to simulate now that we're equipped with AMD's Wraith Max and Wraith spire coolers we can test our risin 5 chips with both stock and aftermarket cooling so for giggles we threw our I are on our overclock 1600 X and managed to maintain our performance at reasonable if unexceptional temperatures so aftermarket cooling is still recommended for overclocking even on rise ins four and six core variants which leads us to our conclusion then since its launch AMD's new platform has been changing almost daily we're constantly learning new things about how it does perform how its supposed to perform and why and with Rison five ambhi's future becomes much clearer thanks to software and firmware updates that continue to improve rise ins performance and stability with these numbers and pricing Intel may be starting to sweat a little bit remember too that we used an X 370 board but you could save a fair bit on the platform overall by stepping down to be 350 if you don't need SLI or even lower if you don't plan to overclock now to be clear Rison doesn't overclock like crazy the platform bugs aren't quite fully ironed out and it still isn't that clear of far and away performance King that a lot of people wanted it to be but what they have done when you factor in the entire suite of tests is deliver just as much bang for the buck as team blue right now and that is a very good thing do you have two computers do you have two keyboards and two mice all over your desk so that you can actually use a four mention two computers well that's dumb because synergy exists and it allows you to share one Mouse and one keyboard seamlessly between two or more computers so you'll no longer confuse which one is for which and which one goes with what one it's awesome they've got a basic and pro version with a one-time payment for lifetime access and the features include clipboard sharing in the computers dragging and dropping files between the computers the ability to set up hotkeys and more it even works on Windows Mac and Linux and you can use our link in the video description to save 25% on synergy today so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our t-shirt store which you should totally check out and our community forum which you should totally join