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https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2017/04/16/amds-ryzen-5-launches-to-predominantly-positive-reviews/#f5a1ebc49226

APR 16, 2017 @ 07:39 PM

AMD's Ryzen 5 Launches To Predominantly Positive Reviews

Patrick Moorhead , CONTRIBUTOR

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Generally speaking, the reviewers said the types of highly-threaded applications that Ryzen 5 performed well in were:

lossless video transcoding applications
physical rendering
bulk image converters
computational fluid dynamics
megatasking, or running many applications at the same time
ray tracers
common file compression
encryption and decryption
application compiling
gaming while streaming

When it came to other use cases, it’s really a push or AMD won some and Intel won others in:

newer higher-resolution games and games in very high resolution
office productivity
most java-based web browsing


When it comes to applications that favor higher IP and frequency and in some cases, special code paths for Intel processors, in general reviewers showed that Intel performed better. These workloads could be:


MP3 encoding
lower-quality video transcoding
1080P or lower and low settings gaming