AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review Leaks, Shows Impressive Performance

[medi01]

Just to clarify, we are comparing $200 CPU to a $500 CPU, right?

 

[Xzibit]

Passmark Software: Single Thread Performance - Updated 29th of June 2019 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 = 2,979

Here is a screenshot of the site

The system reportedly uses a B450 Aorus M board, not an X570 board. According to the reported clock speed, the CPU doesn't seem to be overclocked either; all three tests show the same turbo of 4.21 GHz, and one result shows a "measured speed" of 3.37 GHz, and the other two 3.61 GHz. It doesn't seem like there was some sort of trick making this 3600 so fast, at least not something we can glean from Passmark's reported information.

Interestingly, the third benchmark for the 3600 uses a 16GB kit of 3200 MHz CL14 G Skill RAM, unlike the first two benchmarks which used a single stick of Crucial RAM at 2666 MHz CL16. The third benchmark reports a score of 7% faster than the two previous scores, which implies that Zen 2 and/or Passmark benefits heavily from having high-speed low-latency dual-channel RAM, something which previous iterations of Zen also benefit from.

 

[ToxicTaZ]

Intel will remain King of the world's fastest 6 cores CPU with the 8086K for now...

As the 3600X is going after the 18 months old 8700K blow for blow.

Same thing going to happen with the 3800X going after the 9900K blow for blow.

Thus Intel has the 9900KS to keep the world's fastest 8 cores CPU on Earth for 2019.

AMD wins power efficiency and price but slower than Intel top 8086K and 9900KS.

 

[EarthDog]

and the 9900K should be running at ~4.8ghz to 5ghz depending

only if a user enables some board's multicore enhancement would it run that fast. You're going to be in the 4.4 range I'd guess (since Intel stopped posting that Info...grrr.....). Still faster... but you'll likely barely be able to get all c/t on the amd much past that anyway.

 

[medi01]

Passmark Software: Single Thread Performance - Updated 29th of June 2019 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 = 2,979

Here is a screenshot of the site

This... can't be stock 3600.

 

[RichF]

So many comments written as if the Intel security flaws haven't come with serious performance regressions.

You know, like having to completely disable hyperthreading? It's not just me saying that, either. It's the OpenBSD team, Apple, and various others.

I suppose if your gaming box has no sensitive information of any kind on it (and you're not worried about resources being drained away by the addition of surreptitious malware) then don't worry about patching all of the security flaws. It's not just hyperthreading that many are ignoring because of the performance regression problem. So, don't expect that the performance you have seen by not actively seeking out and patching for all of the flaws is the same thing as the true performance level of Intel's parts. Decisions have been made to sacrifice security for performance (e.g. what Windows 10 will patch and what it will ignore unless the user manually patches), from what I've read.