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For Zen 2 owners running something like the Ryzen 5 3600, it’s less obvious what you should do though, and in many instances the upgrade for the 5600 isn’t worth it. But again, that will depend on the games you’re playing and how you play them, so that will be for you to work out.

Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 (2021) review: Affordable power

published 29 March 2021

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Tom’s Guide Verdict

The Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 (2021) has good gaming performance for the price, but its design could be better.

Pros

• + Good AMD components
• + Reasonable price
• + Solid gaming performance

Cons

• — Very loud
• — Inconvenient design
• — So-so software

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Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 (2021): Specs

Price: $2,640
Processor: Up to AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM: Up to 128 GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Storage: Up to 2 TB SSD + 2 TB HDD
Accessories: Dell Multi-Media Keyboard, Dell Optical Mouse MS116AW
Ports: USB-A, USB-C, 3.5 mm audio, optical audio, DisplayPort, HDMI
Size: 18.9 x 17.0 x 8.8 inches
Weight: 39 pounds

The Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 (2021) tells you everything you need to know about the product right in the name. It’s an Alienware Aurora gaming rig, which means you’re going to get a distinctive chassis, packed full of powerful, customizable hardware. It also tells you that it contains AMD components rather than Intel/Nvidia gear, and that it’s based on the slightly older R10 build.

The Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 performs comparably to its Intel/Nvidia counterpart. That means you can run the best PC games at QHD resolutions easily, and in 4K with only mild compromises. Still, there’s a general sense that AMD software is harder to navigate than it needs to be, and that means you’ll need to spend a lot of time fine-tuning game settings. The problems that exist in the standard R10 and R11 — the loud fans, the odd chassis, the unnecessary Dell software — are still present here.

Still, the Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 offers good performance for a reasonable price, and if you’re just getting started in the world of PC gaming, it may be one of the best gaming PCs for your purposes. Read our full Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 (2021) review to learn more.

Benchmarks

Starting with Fortnite we see that although the Ryzen 5 3600 is plenty fast, the 5600 is much faster, boosting performance with the 6950 XT at 1080p by a whopping 56% at 1080p.

Even with the 6600 XT, the R5 5600 was 47% faster than the 3600 at 1080p, though that margin was reduced to 16% at 1440p. Still, for Fortnite players it looks like Zen 2 is fast enough, pushing frame rates well over 250 fps on average with 1% lows of over 160 fps.

Next up we have Assetto Corsa Competizione and here the 3600 performs really well, boosting average frame rate performance over the original 1600 by up to 52%. Moreover, it was just 15% slower than the 5600 when paired with the 6950 XT at 1080p.

Big gains for Zen 2 over Zen here, while Zen 3 was up to 18% faster which admittedly is still a reasonable performance advantage, but might not warrant the $175 investment in the 5600.

The Ryzen 3600 performed even better in Cyberpunk 2077 relative to the 5600, typically trailing by a 7% margin. That means it was significantly faster than the 1600 when more CPU-limited with the 6950 XT. Another impressive result that shouldn’t see 3600 owners in need of a 5600 upgrade.

As we’ve found previously Dying Light 2 isn’t a heavy CPU user and as a result even the Ryzen 5 1600 does well here. That said, the 3600 was better when paired with high-end GPUs as it was able to match the 5600 at both 1440p and 1080p using the 6950 XT.

Moving on, we have F1 2021 and this is a game that despite running at much lower frame rates with the Ryzen 5 1600, it was very playable with well over 100 fps at all times. That being the case, 3600 owners who predominantly play F1 2021 won’t feel the need to upgrade given performance here has been boosted by up to 37% over the 1600. The fact that it’s still 32% slower than the 5600 is of no consequence given we’re talking about average frame rates in excess of 200 fps.

The Far Cry 6 results are interesting as they become GPU bound quickly using the high quality preset, yet there’s no performance difference between the 3600 and 5600, which is odd, but the performance of Far Cry games has always been a bit strange and don’t utilize CPUs very well. But when compared to the 1600, the Ryzen 3600 is up to 57% faster, which is a sizable improvement.

The Forza Horizon 5 results are more typical. Using the 6950 XT at 1080p, the 3600 was 46% faster than the 1600 and 16% slower than the 5600. That margin is reduced to just 11% at 1440p and although that still makes the 5600 a good bit faster, the 3600 is still averaging over 200 fps which is plenty fast.

Then with the 6600 XT, the Ryzen 3600 and 5600 are evenly matched due to the GPU limitation, though at 1080p the 3600 was 26% faster than the 1600. For those wanting to push over 144 fps, the 3600 is more than capable of that in Forza.

Moving on to Hitman 3, we find that the Ryzen 3600 is able to match the 5600 for the most part, with the exception of the 1080p data with the 6950 XT where it was 13% faster. For most playing Hitman 3 the performance difference between the 3600 and 5600 will be minimal, but from the 1600 to the 3600, well, that’s a huge upgrade netting players up to 53% more performance.

The Riftbreaker was a game that really broke the Ryzen 5 1600, leading to stuttery gameplay that wasn’t at all enjoyable. The Ryzen 5 3600 is a big step up with far fewer frame pacing issues but the up to 36% better 1% low performance you’ll receive from the 5600 was noticeable. The Zen 3 part delivered perfectly smooth performance so this is an example where the upgrade from the 3600 to the 5600 would be worth it.

Next we have Rainbow Six Extraction and here the Ryzen 5 1600 had no issue providing smooth playable performance, with at least 170 fps on average when paired with a high-end GPU. Needless to say, the 3600 was fine, generally matching the 5600 with the biggest margin seen at 1080p with the 6950 XT where the Zen 2 part was 8% slower.

The last game we’re going to look at the individual results for is Watch Dogs Legion. This is a CPU demanding game that tended to overwhelm the Ryzen 5 1600. The Ryzen 3600 had no issue though, keeping frame rates above 60 fps when performance was CPU limited and was never more than 12% slower than the 5600.

CPU Performance Comparison

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Versus

That’s how the Ryzen 5 5600 and Core i5-12400F compare across 9 games at 1080p and 1440p using four tiers of GeForce GPUs. As you might expect, they’re evenly matched for the most part, though the Intel CPU is a tad faster, and it’s worth noting that of the 9 games tested, AMD hit the lead in just Horizon Zero Dawn.

The 12400F dominated on games that lean heavily on the primary thread and that doesn’t just mean games like Far Cry 6. The Riftbreaker, for example, heavily utilizes modern CPUs, spreading the load across many cores, but like most games, it still heavily relies on single core performance as the primary thread is hit the hardest, and this can give the 12400F a substantial performance advantage.

Typically, a best case result for the Ryzen 5 5600 will be the same or similar performance, like what was seen in Rainbow Six Extraction and God of War. Of course, how much of a performance difference will depend on the game and the quality settings used. If you’re going to be using the highest quality settings your GPU can handle with a 60-90 fps target, then there’s going to be no noticeable difference between these CPUs, and that will likely be the case well into the future.

However, if you’re more interested in high refresh rate gaming – 144+ fps – then the 12400F will often prove to be the better option, delivering up to 33% stronger performance, seen in The Riftbreaker in the most extreme of cases.

In short, for casual gamers it won’t matter which one of these CPUs you go with. For competitive gamers, we suggest the Core i5-12400F. but before we go too deep into recommendations, let’s check out pricing.

As noted earlier, the Ryzen 5 5600 goes for $200, while the Core i5-12400F is slightly more affordable at $180. The other factor to consider is the motherboard price.

The best value B660 board in my opinion is the MSI B660M-A Pro, which currently costs $150 for the WiFi version, $140 for the non-WiFi model, and the equivalent AMD B550 board would be the B550-A Pro which also costs $150, though that board doesn’t come with a WiFi option. That means that if you’re looking at pairing either of these processors with a decent spec board, pricing is about the same at ~$150.

If you want the absolute cheapest motherboard available for the corresponding platforms, on the B660 front we’d buy the MSI B660M-A Pro for $140. For AMD B550, however, you could go as low as the Gigabyte B550M DS3H for $100. It’s certainly not a great board, but it works. The MSI B550M Pro-VDH WiFi is also decent at $120. Those small savings mean going Intel or AMD at this price segment will cost you relatively the same.

In that scenario, for those upgrading their platform or building a new PC, the Core i5-12400F with a decent B660 board seems like the way to go. The most ideal path for the Ryzen 5 5600 would be if you already have a solid AM4 board, meaning the 5600 would be a drop-in CPU upgrade.

The advantage of Intel LGA 1700 platform is that it will support another CPU generation, so if you were to buy the 12400F now, it’s conceivable that upgrading to a Raptor Lake Core i7 in the future would be of benefit, provided you got a decent B660 board now. The R5 5600 is limited this generation to the Zen 3 CPUs we already have, and the upcoming Ryzen 5 5800X3D.

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The Non-X Factor

• Page 1: The Non-X Factor
• Page 2: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Power Consumption, Efficiency and Test Setup
• Page 3: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Gaming Benchmarks
• Page 4: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Application Benchmarks
• Page 5: Zen 3 Enters the Budget Arena

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Intel’s competitive Alder Lake chips have upset AMD’s dominance with its Ryzen processors, particularly in the lower price ranges, but the new $199 six-core 12-thread Ryzen 5 5600 and $159 Ryzen 5 5500 are designed to plug key gaps in the company’s portfolio. These new chips come as part of AMD’s broader launch of seven new Ryzen 5000 models that aim to shore up the company’s rankings in CPU benchmarks and retake its position on the Best CPUs for gaming list.

AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips fully eclipsed Intel’s performance lead in desktop PCs when they launched back in 2020, but the company has long neglected to launch any sub-$250 chips with the potent Zen 3 architecture. That’s kept the bar for entry unattainably high for value seekers.

AMD’s new chips are long overdue, arriving a year and a half after the first wave of Ryzen 5000 chips, but they’re badly needed. Intel’s Alder Lake launch caught AMD uncharacteristically flat-footed, wresting away AMD’s performance lead. Intel’s aggressive pricing also brought superior value in every price range while exploiting AMD’s glaring lack of any sub-$250 Zen 3 chips.

AMD’s solution is pretty simple: The company is bringing back its non-X models, but with a twist. As a reminder, AMD’s non-X models are the lower-cost and lower-performing versions of the ‘X’ models (like the Ryzen 5 5600X), but they have historically offered nearly the same performance as their counterparts, particularly after overclocking. AMD is also putting a new spin on the practice: Some of these new models, like the Ryzen 5 5500, are repurposed APUs with a disabled integrated GPU.

• AMD Ryzen 5 5600 (AMD Ryzen 5) at Amazon for $123

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The four new non-X models are designed to respond to Intel’s commanding lead on the low end, and AMD has also slashed pricing on its existing Ryzen 5000 models. AMD is even enabling support for Ryzen 5000 chips on older 300-series motherboards, opening up a value option that’s a good fit for the new low-end Ryzen lineup. Here’s how AMD’s new mainstream contenders stack up.

Against

• 5600X doesn’t cost much more
• Zen 4 is coming soon

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The original Ryzen 5 5600X was the standout chip for gamers from AMD’s initial Zen 3 launch. It didn’t have the stupendous core count of the Ryzen 9 5950X or the 5900X, but it still packed an impressively focused punch when it came to gaming. So much so in fact that it was our processor of choice for a good year and a half until Intel’s Alder Lake upset AMD’s dominance.

The Ryzen 5 5600 is AMD’s answer to Intel’s 12th Gen chips, along with the cache-rich Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Ryzen 5 5500, and Ryzen 7 5700X. Apart from the 5800X3D, these are all budget versions of what has come before. And undercutting Intel is no bad thing in our book.

This is a six-core, 12-thread chip that closely resembles its namesake, the Ryzen 5 5600X, apart from dropping the list price down to $159 and easing back on the operating frequency ever so slightly as well. You’re looking at a 3.5GHz base clock and a max turbo of 4.4GHz, both of which are 200MHz slower than the 5600X.

You get the same support for DDR4 and PCIe 4.0, there’s 32MB of L3 cache, and it still comes with the impressively quiet Wraith Stealth cooler. It’s built on the same 7nm TSMC production process and features the same 65W TDP too. Everything a gamer needs without paying over the odds.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 specs
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Cores: 6
Thread: 12
Base clock: 3.5GHz
Boost clock: 4.4GHz
L3 Cache: 32MB
Memory support: DDR4 3200MHz
Socket: AM4
TDP: 65W
Cooler: Wraith Stealth
Price: $159 | £149

Don’t let that lack of a trailing X confuse you either, it’s still an unlocked chip and therefore can be pushed that little bit harder with some judicious overclocking if you want to splash out on a serious cooler. The benefit of such activities isn’t as obvious as it once was, especially when it comes to gaming, but if you want to get the absolute most out of your purchase, then at least you know it’s an option.

This is of course assuming that the chip delivers where it matters most—in actual games.

A good gaming chip doesn’t have to top the gaming benchmarks. It simply needs to offer strong performance at a reasonable price point. That’s why the original Ryzen 5 5600X was our pick of the crop and why it was replaced by the more-affordable Core i5 12600K, not one of these ‘fastest gaming CPUs’ that keep appearing at nearly $500.

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Test rig

Cooler: Zadak Spark AIO
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master
RAM: 16GB Thermaltake DDR4 @3,600MHz
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
Storage: 1TB Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus
PSU: Ikonik Vulcan 1200W

The good news here is that while the 5600 is slightly off the pace of its bigger brother in some games, it’s not by much, and the potential saving on offer can certainly make that difference a hit worth taking.

In our gaming suite, you’re looking at a 9% difference in the worst-case scenario that is F1 2021, and essentially no difference in the likes of Total War: Three Kingdoms and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Indeed, this CPU actually had a small lead in the latest outing for Lara Croft, albeit within the margin of error. Generally though, you’re talking about single-digit differences in frame rates.

Given this chip is unlocked, you could potentially make up that difference with a good enough cooler and some PBO tweakery. Not a bad place to be for a chip that can be had for half the price of what the Ryzen 5 5600X originally launched at.

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The performance in more serious applications isn’t bad either, although if you need to render 3D graphics or encode video on your CPU, then you’ll be better off dropping more on the likes of the 5900X or 5950X. They’re notable more expensive, but significantly faster too.

This is an impressive CPU at a great price.

Don’t let that detract from the positives for gaming though. This is an impressive CPU at a great price. This is exactly how you should release a budget version of a popular CPU after the fact. It’s a shame we had to wait so long for AMD to hit this price point, but it got there in the end.

If there is a problem for the Ryzen 5 5600 it’s that it doesn’t exist in a vacuum and the Ryzen 5 5600X has dropped significantly from its original $299 retail price as well. You can now pick up the 5600X for $189, which is just $30 more than the $159 you can expect to pay for this. The extra outlay doesn’t secure much in real terms, particularly when it comes to gaming, but $30 for a few more frames here and there doesn’t feel ridiculous.

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A slightly tougher issue is the spectre of Zen 4 looming on the horizon. The budget end of AMD’s current lineup probably isn’t under so much threat as the top end—the decision to support DDR5 makes for a more expensive upgrade path, and if the Ryzen 5 5600X launch price is anything to go by, then the Ryzen 5 7600X equivalent could be double the price of this chip.

Overall, the Ryzen 5 5600 is a great chip. It may be on a platform that isn’t long for this world, and that does affect its value proposition to a degree, but there’s very little out there than can compete in straight performance terms. Particularly when it comes to gaming. Paired with a budget B550 or X570 motherboard, 16GB of RAM, and a speedy PCIe 4.0 SSD, you can build a great core for not much money, leaving you more cash to drop on a quality graphics card. As it should be.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Power Consumption, Efficiency and Test Setup

• Page 1: The Non-X Factor
• Page 2: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Power Consumption, Efficiency and Test Setup
• Page 3: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Gaming Benchmarks
• Page 4: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Application Benchmarks
• Page 5: Zen 3 Enters the Budget Arena

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The Intel Alder Lake chips still suck more power than AMD’s Zen 3-powered Ryzen 5000 series chips, but pairing the Intel 7 process with the hybrid architecture brings big improvements, particularly in threaded work.

The Zen 3-equipped Ryzen 5 5600G has long been the most efficient chip we’ve tested, but the Ryzen 5 5500 gives it a run for the money in the HandBrake renders-per-day-per-watt measurements. That isn’t entirely surprising, as the 5500 is merely a lower-clocked version of the 5600G, and efficiency tends to improve the further you move to the left on the voltage/frequency curve.

The Ryzen 5 5600 is also plenty efficient, but the Core i5-12400 takes a slight lead in the efficiency metrics. As you’d expect, the Core i5-12400 and Core i3-12100 draw more power during the heavily-threaded AVX y-cruncher workload.

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Here we take a slightly different look at power consumption by calculating the cumulative energy required to perform Blender and x264 and x265 HandBrake workloads, respectively. We plot this ‘task energy’ value in Kilojoules on the left side of the chart.

These workloads are comprised of a fixed amount of work, so we can plot the task energy against the time required to finish the job (bottom axis), thus generating a really useful power chart.

Bear in mind that faster compute times, and lower task energy requirements, are ideal. That means processors that fall the closest to the bottom left corner of the chart are best.

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