Conclusion

While this article isn't comparable to the high standards of professional review, we still got some insight into the performance of Ryzen 5 5600X over the Phenom II 1055T. Over the course of this article, we saw the 5600X utterly dominate the decade old 1055T in everything we threw at it (well, I threw; you saw). Even though that is to be expected, the performance contrast between the two hexa-core processors and the absolute margins were still amazing(for me at least) to look at!

AMD has come a long way to correct its misstep with the bulldozer architecture(the FX series). With a mountain to climb, AMD with Dr. Lisa Su at the helm laid the groundworks with the first generation of Ryzen. Flaunting a massive 52% IPC increase over the FX series, AMD took a giant leap to close the margins with Intel. Then on, its been one victory over another for AMD. Naysayers were left clinging to Intel's IPC and lightly-threaded workload (read: gaming) lead until the Ryzen 5000 series launched and snatched even that away, cementing its position as the no-compromise leader in the CPU market, from desktop PCs to high-grade server systems.

Being on better manufacturing node than Intel for the first time also helped AMD marry the performance gains with energy efficiency as well. We just saw in the previous section how the Ryzen 5 5600X was not only over 8 times faster than the Phenom II X6 1055T, but also consumed half the power while being so! That's 10 years of architecture and VLSI design advances for you. Electronics saw remarkable growth in the last two decades primarily due to the advances in LSI (Large Scale Integration) and VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration). Just compare a smartphone from 2020 to a smartphone from 2010. You will get my point. Compare to one from 2000 you...oh wait, they didn't exist back then! (well, technically the first "proper" smartphone, with internet connectivity and all did come from Ericsson in 2000, but still debatable since the definition of "proper" is a bit vague)

Coming back to our CPU, with stellar single-threaded and multi-threaded performance, 5600X is the CPU to look out for in the mid-range. When upgraded to 5600X, the system was able to squeeze out every bit of performance from the age old GPU - Radeon R7 260X. Pairing with faster GPUs will better show what the 5600X is capable of though. No doubt, with the horsepower 5600X has in reserve, it will be able to drive high-tier graphics cards for years to come.

Not only did we see astounding performance improvements with the upgrade from the CPU and GPU, we also saw the SSD and memory get a boost. Before the platform upgrade, the only option for a SSD was one that would run on SATA interface, that too running slower SATA II one. Now, the new platform paves the way to upgrade to even faster NVMe SSDs running on PCIe gen 3.0.

Though the memory also received an upgrade from DDR3 to DDR4, the bandwidth is still constrained thanks to it being single rank. I intend to update this article later with the performance metrics from running in dual rank, when I upgrade the memory. I might also write a similar article after upgrading the graphics card too.

If you disliked something about the article (liked will also do), feel free to comment down below. Constructive criticism is always appreciated.

That concludes my closing thoughts. Thank you for your time going through or skimming though this article. I hope you found something of interest and perhaps learnt something new as have I.

Cheers!

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Gallery

Part 3: Test Setup and Methodology

Part 4: CPU Benchmarks

Part 5: Gaming Benchmarks

Part 6: Hexa-cores vs dual-core

Part 7: Platform Benchmarks

Part 8: Thermals and Power

Part 9: Conclusion