Monday, July 1st 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel Core i9-9900KF at PassMark - CPU Mark Single-Thread
In more evidence of AMD having finally achieved or exceeded IPC parity with Intel, a mid-range Ryzen 5 3600 processor beats Intel's current mainstream-desktop flagship processor, the Core i9-9900KF, at the PassMark - CPU Mark single-thread benchmark. The official performance chart for PassMark shows the Ryzen 5 3600 leading the pack, with 2,981 points, a score which is 1.77 percent higher than that of the Core i9-9900KF on the same chart. It also beats the Core i9-9900K by 2.86 percent. Interestingly, the chart does not mention whether the Ryzen 5 3600 is running at its stock frequency of 3.60 GHz with 4.20 GHz boost, or whether it's overclocked. The i9-9900KF boosts to 5.00 GHz. For a single-threaded benchmark, it's generally assumed that the maximum boost multiplier is engaged on both chips. The score can't be dismissed due to this uncertainty, either, because AMD achieving a 1-2 percent IPC uplift over "Skylake" (fine, "Coffee Lake,") isn't impossible given the leaps the company made in the past three years.
Sources:
PassMark, MarkDaKind (Reddit)
51 Comments on AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel Core i9-9900KF at PassMark - CPU Mark Single-Thread
It seems like 3600 was overclocked.
New leaked 3700x is slightly behind 9900k in single core.
Here's your average benchmark
www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+3700X&id=3485
But they don't want to use that chance and thousands people who thought to buy high end AMD CPU 3900X or 3950X will delay until price of motherboards drop and then will Intel show up.
When Intel show up with DDR4 AMD will be in position to seriously decrease price.
What Intel could launch to attract customers who thought on X570.
New socket, new chipset, CPU with 10 cores and 5.0GHz Turbo for less then 500$ with PCI-E 4.0 and AMD price will go down 30%.
Many many customers will not pay price of Rampage Apex or Rampage Extreme for Crosshair boards.
AMD had chance to increase price and reach same level as Intel mainstream, but they go on prices of X299 motherboards and that will revenge them badly because a lot of people don't want to buy budget motherboards any more for expensive processors and graphic cards. They want at least ASUS Hero and Crosshair VIII Hero look FANTASTIC, Nicest AMD board for now to me nicer then even Zenith.
But price is problem.
Reason why AMD don't want to sink Intel completely maybe is in supplies of new generation and want to sell to people who want to pay highest price first or because make favor to Intel.
Same as Intel make small performance improvement when AMD is not ready.
But with normal price of motherboards and correction of processors AMD had chance to take 20% of market more from Intel hands.
Instead to concentrate on situations where PCI-E 4.0 improvement is best visable they will left to people think that graphic card will not profit from PCI-E 4.0 and that's it.
No more reason for investing in Gen 4.0. Then after 12 months people who now upgrade to Intel will thought what we done.
Intel stay as good option for people who buy processors for surfing with plan to play games with Internal GPU.
i9-9900K is not high end any more, it's obsolete platform. Important new standard with capability to improve speed of GPU, SSD, Wi-Fi ... etc is here.
Give me a break.
Army of "buy blue, no matter what" is second only to the army of "buy green, no matter what".
Vlad's ramblings are like listening to the town drunk. Good for entertainment, bad for accuracy/reality. :)
I dont know how much exactly (look at some reviews), but it is notably more efficient so that is at least part of it.
That must be checked on default system. When I say default I think on Turbo Frequency because they are enable by default in motherboard BIOS.
At least for Intel. And if AMD beat Intel in that scenario that's amazing.
The 9900KS is a 4GHz CPU with all 8 cores @5GHz Turbo
@the end of the day the 8086K is still the fastest 6 cores CPU ever built. Intel 8086K is faster than the 3600X across the board.
Same thing going to happen with AMD 3800X as the Intel 9900KS will wipe the floor clean, 9900KS is the fastest 8 cores CPU ever built.
Both 8086K and 9900KS are clocked much higher with base 4GHz/5GHz Turbo and both untouchable in benchmarks.
Passmark is BS anyway. I wouldn’t use it for performance metrics. That’s just me, though.
You literally get a cooler, cheaper, more efficient, faster in workloads processor, 2 extra cores for future proofing processor that at worst performs 3% slower at 1440p resolutions in gaming.
$500 9900k 3% faster at 1440p OR $330 3700X 10-15% faster in general computing, cooler, more efficient, much better value? I mean look if the 9900k was priced at $330 to be in direct competition with the 3700x it might be worth while, especially if you ONLY GAME and nothing else. But if you do any sort of other work on your pc, or even game and stream, then the 3700x would still be the better choice, even if the 9900k was $330.
But that said, if you overclock the 9900K to around 5 GHz, that gaming lead increases significantly in a lot of titles atn1080p. If you are chasing FPS, for example High FPS/Refresh rate gaming, double digit percent difference (due to ~700 MHz clock difference) is quite noticeable. There are a lot of people running high fps machines that want to minimize any bottlenecks.
I'd love to know where amd got these results
So you are getting a 9900k performance within 3% difference at 1440p for $200 less and literally 30% more performance in applications.
9900KS is the last Intel 300 series boards upgrade....im planning to sell my 8700K for 9900KS.
A stock 9900KS will be faster than 3800X and should be able to OC the 9900KS from 4GHz base to 5.3GHz AVX-0 OC...with a good aftermarket cooling system like Swiftech or EK.... Would be sweet.
Else we'd have shortages of Ryzens, hehe.
I'm "Cooled by EK" why do I have to worry about Watts?
Anyone who has an Intel 300 board can drop in 9900KS (4GHz/5GHz) and have factory binned CPU that's cheaper than silicon Lottery performance.
9900KS is not for anyone but only for a few guys that want untouchable bragging rights performance.
Anyone that gets there hands on a 8086K and 9900KS have the fastest 6&8 cores CPUs ever made.
Limited Edition & Special Edition
There not for the everyone, if you want cheaper less Watts set up next generation consoles level then 3700X and 5700 is minimal. If you want faster than next generation consoles then get 3800X and 5700 XT.
If you want a crazy fast PC then get 3900X/3950X and Radeon 7 or the fastest 8 cores CPU and GPU money can buy 9900KS and 2080 Super setup.
Quad channels and TU102 are above all that. So just buy what you can afford.
People are very upset not having 8086K & 9900KS top performance, so they talk about what they do have better prices and less Watts. Sorry I meant 5.3GHz AVX-2
9900KS is only at best 200MHz over 9900K best all cores 5.1GHz OC.
Yes you're right :toast: