Is it worth upgrading from AMD Ryzen 1 to Ryzen 2? (Overview of the reviews)

**Should You Upgrade to Ryzen 2?**

If you're rocking a Ryzen 7 CPU, there really isn't much point in upgrading to the new generation. While you'll get lower voltages at the same core speed, and might be able to overclock your CPU from 4 GHz to 4.3 GHz (or maybe even 4.5 GHz if you're lucky), it's not a significant enough boost to justify getting rid of your existing system.

**Upgrading from Ryzen 1: A Better Option for Future Upgrades**

However, if you have an older AMD CPU, such as the 1700 or 1800 series, wait for Ryzen 2 and expect a genuine improvement next year. In contrast, my recommendation is to buy Ryzen 2 if you're in the market for a new PC, as it's a great option even if you don't upgrade your existing CPU.

**Upgrading from Older AMD CPUs: A Good Time to Upgrade**

If you have an older AMD CPU that's not part of the Ryzen 5 line-up, such as a 1600 or 1500 series, then upgrading to a 2700 or 2700 X is a good option. This upgrade will give you two extra cores and higher frequency, making it a worthwhile investment.

**AMD's Generational Improvement: Doing It Right**

In contrast to Intel's generational improvements, AMD is doing it right by giving people from the lower end of their previous generation a really enticing upgrade to go higher up the product stack in a new generation of CPUs. This means that you don't have to buy a new motherboard or worry about compatibility issues.

**Conclusion**

To summarize, if you're on the latest Ryzen CPU, there's no need to upgrade just yet. However, if you have an older AMD CPU, then upgrading to the new generation is a good idea. Additionally, if you're in the market for a new PC, buying Ryzen 2 is still a great option.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm sure you all had a pretty similar experience to me especially if you're into PC hardware on any level you get home after a long day of work you head inside and you drop your keys put on your most comfortable pair of slippers and head over to your desk you sit down and check your phone and all you see is Rison reviews but then you head over to the Internet to check them out and suddenly you look over to your 1700 X and while you're not as happy with it anymore so the question that I'm gonna try and answer today is should you be unhappy with your current rise in one CPU and if you have any CPU in the rise in one lineup is there a reason to upgrade to risin to where I should probably say hello first hello and welcome my name is David this is the channel where I do tech stuff now before I carry on any further I just want to make a little bit of a disclaimer I'm going to put aside the whole controversy around the an an in the tech Anand deck Anand Tech anyway I don't know how to say their name but the websites review which showed rise into dominating everything intel has to offer in gaming scenarios which seems a little bit unlikely so I'm gonna be focusing on results from pretty much all the other reviews in fact the one that I'm gonna primarily focus on is the one from gamers Nexus because well everybody knows that they are like the only people that know how to review things properly when looking at the reviews of the rising 2 CPUs it seems like quite a familiar story something we've been seeing from Intel over the last five or so years it seems like it's nothing more than just kind of another generational improvement but that's not necessarily a bad thing because a generational improvement over isin one is still good we're getting higher our clocks were getting better gaming performance xfr boost to is really cool and that does genuinely help get higher frame rates better memory support is always exciting especially considering how everybody knows how bad rising one's memory kind of compatibility was and considering how much of a difference kind of higher memory speed makes better ram compatibility is always welcome so yes it's not the most exciting release but it still helps and one of the things that's the biggest improvement over the previous generation is well voltages it's more efficient it means that you can run at four point something gigahertz at a much lower voltage than rising one could which is less straining on the cpu and it means you invariably use less power you know I really struggle to get invariably out of there but you know it might only equator like ten dollars a year in your power bill but better efficiency is always better now this brings up the obvious question of well should you upgrade if you have a rise in one CPU because yes rising to does battery gaming performance and gaming performance is something that there was always a big asterisk next to you whenever discussing Rison one kind of overall performance but is this boost enough to justify getting rid of your 1,700 acts that you've been running for at 2700 X now I'm not gonna make vague speculation for ages about whether or not you should I think is a very clear answer I think if you're rocking a rise in seven CPU there really isn't much point because yeah you get lower voltages at the same core speed and you might be able to overclock your cpu from instead of four gigahertz to like four point three gigahertz although four point three Giga it seems to be like a unicorn number in the same way that four gigahertz was for risin 1 so yeah if you're lucky you might be able to get the four point three five mmm if you have a 1,700 1,700 X or an 1,800 X wait for risin two and well my risin to I means n to wait for next year when there's a genuine improvement that's gonna kind of actually be noticeable to you but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't buy risin two if you're in the market for a new PC it's a great option if you were gonna buy a new CPU anyway it is a genuine improvement over the previous generation and that doesn't mean that people in the current generation of rice and CPUs don't necessarily have a reason to upgrade because if you had something like a rise in three CPU maybe a thirteen hundred and you upgrade to a 2600 X you're gonna have a huge improvement of performance you're not only getting two extra cores but you're getting higher clock speeds and if you have something like a 1600 or a 1500 anything that falls under the risin 5 line up of CPUs you've also got a great option of going to a 2700 or 2700 X because it's not a hugely expensive upgrade because you don't have to get a new motherboard or whatever and you're going to get again two extra cores higher frequency and just a lot of good stuff that you didn't have with your 1600 X so I think in the context of AMD's kind of generational improvement compared to Intel's generational improvements AMD is doing it right they're giving people from the lower end of their previous generation a really enticing upgrade to go higher up the product stack in a new generation of CPUs as supposed to the Intel platform is that you don't have to buy a new motherboard they don't arbitrarily change the amount of pins in a socket so that you can't go from I don't know a 4770k to a 7700 K you can't do that because well the CPUs not gonna fit in the socket now I do realize I didn't go into a huge amount of detail in this video but this video isn't supposed to be about a huge amount of detail it's supposed to be about a clear answer of whether or not it's going to be worth it for you to upgrade so most of the information that I got for this video I sourced from tech youtubers mainly gamers Nexus so if you want more detail on this topic do check out their videos Steve goes into a huge amount of detail and he can give you a really good indication of what kind of performance you should be expecting how much of an improvement it's going to be and yeah just general tastiness about Rison if you like the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more content like this if you didn't like it dislike it but please don't forget to tell me in the comment section below what your problem was with the video so that I can fix it in future videos so all about improving and with that I'll see you in the next videoI'm sure you all had a pretty similar experience to me especially if you're into PC hardware on any level you get home after a long day of work you head inside and you drop your keys put on your most comfortable pair of slippers and head over to your desk you sit down and check your phone and all you see is Rison reviews but then you head over to the Internet to check them out and suddenly you look over to your 1700 X and while you're not as happy with it anymore so the question that I'm gonna try and answer today is should you be unhappy with your current rise in one CPU and if you have any CPU in the rise in one lineup is there a reason to upgrade to risin to where I should probably say hello first hello and welcome my name is David this is the channel where I do tech stuff now before I carry on any further I just want to make a little bit of a disclaimer I'm going to put aside the whole controversy around the an an in the tech Anand deck Anand Tech anyway I don't know how to say their name but the websites review which showed rise into dominating everything intel has to offer in gaming scenarios which seems a little bit unlikely so I'm gonna be focusing on results from pretty much all the other reviews in fact the one that I'm gonna primarily focus on is the one from gamers Nexus because well everybody knows that they are like the only people that know how to review things properly when looking at the reviews of the rising 2 CPUs it seems like quite a familiar story something we've been seeing from Intel over the last five or so years it seems like it's nothing more than just kind of another generational improvement but that's not necessarily a bad thing because a generational improvement over isin one is still good we're getting higher our clocks were getting better gaming performance xfr boost to is really cool and that does genuinely help get higher frame rates better memory support is always exciting especially considering how everybody knows how bad rising one's memory kind of compatibility was and considering how much of a difference kind of higher memory speed makes better ram compatibility is always welcome so yes it's not the most exciting release but it still helps and one of the things that's the biggest improvement over the previous generation is well voltages it's more efficient it means that you can run at four point something gigahertz at a much lower voltage than rising one could which is less straining on the cpu and it means you invariably use less power you know I really struggle to get invariably out of there but you know it might only equator like ten dollars a year in your power bill but better efficiency is always better now this brings up the obvious question of well should you upgrade if you have a rise in one CPU because yes rising to does battery gaming performance and gaming performance is something that there was always a big asterisk next to you whenever discussing Rison one kind of overall performance but is this boost enough to justify getting rid of your 1,700 acts that you've been running for at 2700 X now I'm not gonna make vague speculation for ages about whether or not you should I think is a very clear answer I think if you're rocking a rise in seven CPU there really isn't much point because yeah you get lower voltages at the same core speed and you might be able to overclock your cpu from instead of four gigahertz to like four point three gigahertz although four point three Giga it seems to be like a unicorn number in the same way that four gigahertz was for risin 1 so yeah if you're lucky you might be able to get the four point three five mmm if you have a 1,700 1,700 X or an 1,800 X wait for risin two and well my risin to I means n to wait for next year when there's a genuine improvement that's gonna kind of actually be noticeable to you but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't buy risin two if you're in the market for a new PC it's a great option if you were gonna buy a new CPU anyway it is a genuine improvement over the previous generation and that doesn't mean that people in the current generation of rice and CPUs don't necessarily have a reason to upgrade because if you had something like a rise in three CPU maybe a thirteen hundred and you upgrade to a 2600 X you're gonna have a huge improvement of performance you're not only getting two extra cores but you're getting higher clock speeds and if you have something like a 1600 or a 1500 anything that falls under the risin 5 line up of CPUs you've also got a great option of going to a 2700 or 2700 X because it's not a hugely expensive upgrade because you don't have to get a new motherboard or whatever and you're going to get again two extra cores higher frequency and just a lot of good stuff that you didn't have with your 1600 X so I think in the context of AMD's kind of generational improvement compared to Intel's generational improvements AMD is doing it right they're giving people from the lower end of their previous generation a really enticing upgrade to go higher up the product stack in a new generation of CPUs as supposed to the Intel platform is that you don't have to buy a new motherboard they don't arbitrarily change the amount of pins in a socket so that you can't go from I don't know a 4770k to a 7700 K you can't do that because well the CPUs not gonna fit in the socket now I do realize I didn't go into a huge amount of detail in this video but this video isn't supposed to be about a huge amount of detail it's supposed to be about a clear answer of whether or not it's going to be worth it for you to upgrade so most of the information that I got for this video I sourced from tech youtubers mainly gamers Nexus so if you want more detail on this topic do check out their videos Steve goes into a huge amount of detail and he can give you a really good indication of what kind of performance you should be expecting how much of an improvement it's going to be and yeah just general tastiness about Rison if you like the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more content like this if you didn't like it dislike it but please don't forget to tell me in the comment section below what your problem was with the video so that I can fix it in future videos so all about improving and with that I'll see you in the next video