Friday, September 20th 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3500X CPU Listed
AMD will soon launch its budget CPU offerings from Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs to continue the tradition of covering all market segments. Today, Ryzen 5 3500X CPU has appeared in listing at Chinese retailer called JD which showed off CPU's pricing information and specifications. Coming in with a price tag of 1099 yuan (around $155), newly listed Ryzen 5 3500X is supposed to be a higher clocked variant of unannounced Ryzen 5 3500 CPU.
Featuring six cores and six threads, this CPU seems to have similar specs as Ryzen 5 3600 with the only difference being the disabled SMT support and slightly lower boost speeds. It has a 3.6 GHz base and 4.1 GHz boost frequency, all while having TDP of 65 Watts. Amount of L3 cache stays the same as its bigger, SMT enabled, variant which features 32 MB of GameCache. Additionally, JD also included some graphs where Ryzen 5 3500X was compared to Intel's i5-9400F CPU at various games, using NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card. Bellow are the benchmarks comparing the two CPU offerings:
Source:
JD
Featuring six cores and six threads, this CPU seems to have similar specs as Ryzen 5 3600 with the only difference being the disabled SMT support and slightly lower boost speeds. It has a 3.6 GHz base and 4.1 GHz boost frequency, all while having TDP of 65 Watts. Amount of L3 cache stays the same as its bigger, SMT enabled, variant which features 32 MB of GameCache. Additionally, JD also included some graphs where Ryzen 5 3500X was compared to Intel's i5-9400F CPU at various games, using NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card. Bellow are the benchmarks comparing the two CPU offerings:
57 Comments on AMD Ryzen 5 3500X CPU Listed
You're just amazing. You'll create a theory and argument to defend every move AMD makes. They could smear product boxes with dogshit and you'd say it stops them from sliding when stacked.
Of course there are types of load for which SMT adds nothing or even decreases performance. But on average, in general computing, it adds a lot (often more than HT).
That and their structural insecurity.
3500X has a max boost of 4.1Ghz and the 3600 has 4.2Ghz, meanwhile the 3600X has a max boost of 4.4Ghz.
So in the end it is around 7% lower max boost than 3600X.
This is a direct competitor to the lower end i5s.
Geekbench 5
SMT On
SMT Off
Borderlands 3 1920x1080, Badass with Volumetric Fog: Medium, FPSLimit: Unlimited
SMT On
- FramesPerSecondAvg: 77.66
- FrameTimeMsAvg: 12.88
- FramesPerSecondAvg: 77.41
- FrameTimeMsAvg: 12.92
SMT Off
- FramesPerSecondAvg: 78.05
- FrameTimeMsAvg: 12.81
- FramesPerSecondAvg: 78.10
- FrameTimeMsAvg: 12.80
With SMT on there was less sudden drops in frame rate in three areas of the benchmark. With SMT off though the CPU's ms response time stayed lower watching three runs of each.
Why is the IPC fallacy so strong on this forum? LOL. Forced replacement. It's a very similar product, but lets promote the new one.
When every other company does that, AMD fanboys go berserk.
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As I said many times earlier, this will be lowest end Ryzen 2nd gen chips, no Ryzen 3 for 3000 series.AMD, as any company would do, will scavenge any left over and sell it :D
But Ryzen 3000 may as well be the last generation on AM4. Or the "Zen2+" upgrade be so insignificant that no one will bother.
The argument about socket AM4 longevity looked fine in 2017 and maybe even has some sense when Ryzen 2000 launched.
But today? AMD unified the lineup. APUs are a part of Ryzen family. Ryzen 3 3000 already exists:
www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-3-3200g
Wow, I'm typing in Klingon.
Lowest part CPU will be 6 core no SMT and anything lower than that goes to APU :D
I don't understand the Sunny Cove part. Intel already uses it in mobile CPUs (10th gen). I'll come to desktops afterwards.
There's a good chance PCIe 4 will be skipped or will arrive on Tiger Lake's successor or later (2021+). Why not use the correct naming?
I know AMD fan base is very used to the CPU-APU differentiation. Historically these were 2 separate product lines.
AMD no longer does this. Ryzen is a unified lineup. Some processors are just "Ryzen" and some are "Ryzen with graphics".
"APU" acronym was scrapped. They're no longer using it.
Plus, as the bench proves, single core performance will be
a tad better. It should give it more OC headroom without the SMT also.
I say if this thing is priced low, it will be the new budget gaming CPU to get.
That's my take on it...
Sigh... what happened to you TPU.
"AMD said AM4 will remain until 2020", that Zen 3 for you. And later, there is Zen 4 scheduling for 2022 window. I'm terribly sorry, I'm bad at explaining simple graph :(
For me it's been always obvious that "until 2020" means that in 2020 they'll launch a new socket. It also makes way more sense linguistically.
AMD doesn't give an explicit socket roadmap, so it's really down to interpretation of a pieces of marketing texts or badly made slides.
Frankly, that's one of the reasons why I try to stay away from this company (both as a consumer and investor)...
Anyway, next year we'll see who was right. ;-)
In EPYC launch event, AMD stated that future EPYC Milan based on Zen 3 will be socket compatible with existing Zen 2 socket. Oh, and don't forget about TSMC having trouble with 7nm, that will add longevity :D
Yeah, AMD made a vague slides, they should learn from other company :rolleyes:
Intel already said DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 are coming in 2021. In case you missed it: consumer and server CPUs from AMD use different sockets. This has absolutely no implication on AM4. I'm not sure what's wrong with this slide. Intel's presentations are usually very solid. That's what you're expected to make for a business meeting.
AMD slides that we know about are not internal/corporate, but made for gaming consumers. They are very general and leave a lot for fanboys to interpret and hype about. :-)
For example: you've looked at the "compute architecture roadmap" slide and you said "2020 that's Zen3". But this information isn't there, right?