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Ryzen 5 3600

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6 Cores, 12 Threads @3.6GHz, Zen2.
Release date: Q3 2019.

Average Bench: 85.1% (70th of 1239)

Based on 282,724 user benchmarks.  Device: 178BFBFF00870F10 Model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor

AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600 is a 6-core, 12-threaded processor which succeeds the Ryzen 5 2600 improving upon it by 13% in terms of overclocked performance. The 3600 is in competition with Intel’s 6-core i5-9600K. AMD continues to push the multi-core performance envelope: benchmarks show that the 3600 has a 27% overclocked 64-core lead over the 9600K but that the i5-9600K leads by 14% on single to hex core workloads which translates to 10% higher EFps in most of the today’s top games (e.g. PUBG, GTAV and CSGO). Additionally, the 3600's memory controller, although significantly improved over previous Ryzen iterations, still has limited bandwidth and high latency which adversely impacts gaming. Weaknesses in memory architecture are not readily picked up by CPU benchmarks but they are apparent whilst gaming. Cheaper CPUs such as the 9400F deliver better gaming performance in nearly all of today’s popular games. At $190 USD, the 3600 offers good value for purely workstation tasks such as film production but streamers should look elsewhere. Streaming with dedicated hardware such as NVENC or a separate stream PC will nearly always result in fewer dropped frames. The masterfully hyped Ryzen 3600 may well be the best CPU for multimedia producers on a tight budget but in today's market there are faster and less expensive alternatives for gamers, streamers and general desktop users. [Jun '19 CPUPro]

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Poor: 75%Average: 85.1% Great: 93%
Gaming
Gaming 85%
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Desktop
Desktop 87%
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Workstation
Workstation 80%
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Very good average bench

The AMD Ryzen 5 3600 averaged just 14.8% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Single Core Mixed Speed 130Pts
Avg. Dual Core Mixed Speed 256Pts

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 is just 18.1%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Multi Core Mixed Speed 1,048Pts
Avg. Octa Core Mixed Speed 801Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 282,724 samples)
Rank 7085.1%
Min Avg Max
69.5 Memory 80 89.5
116 1-Core 130 136
226 2-Core 256 271
87.3% 155 Pts
Min Avg Max
411 4-Core 485 538
723 8-Core 801 873
81.4% 643 Pts
Min Avg Max
950 64-Core 1,048 1,130
70.3% 1,048 Pts
User Benchmarks Bench Normal Heavy Server
The fastest CPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)
88.5% Excellent
Memory 82.4
1-Core 133
2-Core 259
89% 158 Pts
4-Core 508
8-Core 866
87% 687 Pts
64-Core 1,064
71% 1,064 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg)
87.9% Excellent
Memory 82.9
1-Core 127
2-Core 255
88% 155 Pts
4-Core 499
8-Core 772
81% 635 Pts
64-Core 1,014
68% 1,014 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)
86.9% Excellent
Memory 79.4
1-Core 132
2-Core 262
88% 158 Pts
4-Core 507
8-Core 814
84% 660 Pts
64-Core 1,053
71% 1,053 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg)
84.4% Excellent
Memory 71.8
1-Core 134
2-Core 261
86% 156 Pts
4-Core 520
8-Core 879
88% 700 Pts
64-Core 1,083
73% 1,083 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg)
83.1% Excellent
Memory 83.2
1-Core 135
2-Core 268
91% 162 Pts
4-Core 446
8-Core 820
79% 633 Pts
64-Core 1,066
72% 1,066 Pts
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 28,642,474 CPUs tested.

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Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (MS-7C02) - $120

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $172Bench 85%, 282,724 samples15,948x
GPU
RX 5700-XTAMD  $370Bench 106%, 136,435 samples4,876x
RTX 2070S (Super)Nvidia  $500Bench 112%, 159,426 samples3,493x
RX 580AMD  $159Bench 57%, 404,317 samples1,851x
SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $84Bench 107%, 327,461 samples1,635x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $125Bench 290%, 127,669 samples1,337x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $98Bench 274%, 164,256 samples1,092x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $80Bench 85%, 227,653 samples4,017x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $73Bench 85%, 118,268 samples2,015x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $93Bench 84%, 93,569 samples1,802x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 72% - Very good Total price: $827

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 Comments

CPUPro
Avatar level
1,855

Official site www.amd.com/...

3rd generation AMD Ryzen processor, built to perform, designed to win...

Added 11 months ago.
USA-User
Avatar level
6,512

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

1 hr ago.

It works great for me!

GBR-User
Avatar level
4,184

Excellent

3 hrs ago.

Best stability and productivity

FRA-User
Avatar level
3,375

Excellent

1 day ago.

Powerful for gaming, emulation, office work while not bad for productivity and really cheap for what it provides. Through if your only goal is gaming, you might want to save some cash by taking the lower-end 3300X.

POL-User
Avatar level
3,258

Excellent

21 hrs ago.

GRC-User
Avatar level
2,265

Excellent

9 days ago.

Best weighted value gaming-light workstation cpu.Period.

THA-User
Avatar level
2,188

Good

3 days ago.

If you playing ordinary online games with decent graphic and love using many programs at one time this is the best for it.

PHL-User
Avatar level
2,098

Poor

1 day ago.

Tried and Tested! Best CPU ever as of 2019-2020

SRB-User
Avatar level
2,026

Terrible

17 days ago.

i hate it because i do not see performance improvement over ryzen 3 2200g in terms of gaming. Plus , it never hits 4.2 Ghz turbo as advertised + it's hot like hell. IT easily gets 90c+ in cinebench 20. P.S keep in mind i have rx 570 4gb which is bottleneck a lot ,real pair would be rx 5700xt maybe thats why i dont see improvement in gaming. Still ,it should develop at least 30% improvement over 2200g in gaming ,because of superior single core speed

PRT-User
Avatar level
1,930

Good

1 day ago.

this is one of the best ones if you're on a budget and if u squeze a 2060 on it, you will get a realy good pc with almost no bottleneck, combined with 1660 should also be prety good

CPUPro
Avatar level
1,855

Good

11 months ago.

FIN-User
Avatar level
1,838

Excellent

2 days ago.

Most likely the best cpu you can buy money wise!

DNK-User
Avatar level
1,634

Excellent

1 day ago.

its the best

NOR-User
Avatar level
1,504

Excellent

20 days ago.

absolutely best value and relatively future proof. AM4 is also an amazing platform, runs cool and nicely and comes with a semi ok cooler.

NZL-User
Avatar level
1,486

Excellent

9 hrs ago.

Better performance with lower price

SGP-User
Avatar level
1,410

Excellent

21 days ago.

Comment 

Great for GTX 1660 ti or below. Higbly do not recommend to pair this with any RTX GPU as the 3600 will bottleneck them noticeably. For instance, an RTX 2060 super will be utilized at 90% most of the time if paired with the 3600. For video editing it performs almost the same as the 8700k and the 9700k. All in all, you have to choose the right CPU depending on your own usage, not based on benchmarks or what other people recommend. Although significantly improved over previous generations, the 3600 is still picky with RAM and refuses to run the Corsair Vengeance LPX at the rated speed of 3200Mhz, only allowing it to run at 2933 MHz after long days of tweaking and testing for stability.—Dec '19

ARE-User
Avatar level
1,169

Excellent

9 hrs ago.

low cpu usage while playing compared to the i5

PAN-User
Avatar level
766

Good

15 days ago.

Because is cheaper and in ocations better than intel and is a good processor by its price

randomlogin
Avatar level
378

Very poor

7 months ago.

optimal performance/$

JAM-User
Avatar level
318

Excellent

8 months ago.

AWESOME PRICE TO PERFORMANCE CPU WITH VERY WELL BALANCED SINGLE AND MULTICORE PERFORMANCE RIVALING AND BEATING MOST OF ITS COMPETITORS!!

RavenBailiff
Avatar level
290

Excellent

9 months ago.

y e s

Vycyous
Avatar level
206

Excellent

11 months ago.

Info  cpu.userbenchmark.com/...

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs. Intel Core i7-8700K

LostMarble56
Avatar level
192

Excellent

7 months ago.

love it

noconsoleX86
Avatar level
188

Very poor

7 months ago.

bestbuy2019

outrun1bullet
Avatar level
182

Very poor

7 months ago.

ok cpu for me

nonamenobody0
Avatar level
182

Excellent

7 months ago.

best

ExecutableFiles
Avatar level
124

Excellent

3 months ago.

Best Value option for gaming. Perfect price to performance ratio. Also good for content creators on a budget.

Test19
Avatar level
80

Excellent

3 months ago.

The CPU to game and a little work on the side. Get the Tomahawk MAX to pair with it.

Vega20_Navi16
Avatar level
68

Excellent

11 months ago.

best

Federico
Avatar level
40

Excellent

8 months ago.

This chip is a monster and for less than 200 euro

ninjagamer22
Avatar level
24

Excellent

11 months ago.

Amazing CPU.

NedFlanders
Avatar level
22

Excellent

10 months ago.

The best bang for the buck you can get in 2019

Allik
Avatar level
18

Excellent

6 months ago.

I like the Specs and the price. Lets see how it manages Video editing...

Maximal99
Avatar level
16

Excellent

9 months ago.

If there is any better cpu till this day for better price to performance ratio it still would use more wattage per core.

doit4m
Avatar level
16

Good

8 months ago.

I picked one of these up for $195 and paired it and the included cooler with an X570 mobo. It's about equal to a stock i7 8700k but for considerably less money. There is not much to be gained by overclocking. However, enabling the Precision Boost Overdrive feature is easy and manages to squeeze out a little extra performance.

kalef21
Avatar level
14

Good

10 months ago.

fantastic value. cheaper than 1st gen 1600 when it came out. Much better Single threaded performance and decent OC potential. Comes with decent cooler as well.

FoeWest
Avatar level
12

Excellent

10 months ago.

Amazing for the price!

Sopnil
Avatar level
12

Excellent

10 months ago.

Should have some extra overclocking potentiality

por2geezplayboy
Avatar level
12

Excellent

10 months ago.

amazing

makalami
Avatar level
10

Excellent

12 months ago.

Beats my i7 - 4790k out of the box! Awesome single core performance for a Ryzen 5 Cant wait for the 3000 series Ryzen 7 and 9

Hellwala
Avatar level
10

Excellent

6 months ago.

Was going to buy a 2600X but the newer architecture (Zen 2) really blows the previous generation even beating the 2700X and i5-9600K in some scenarios! Great buy!

Enerfire
Avatar level
8

Excellent

10 months ago.

It will be legend.

Den0911
Avatar level
8

Excellent

9 months ago.

Low money = More FPS & Fast system

Urocyeox
Avatar level
8

Excellent

6 months ago.

excellent price to performance and a true tour de force in gaming compared to any i5 or i7 pre-skylake

Gearheart
Avatar level
8

Excellent

3 days ago.

Good value compared to the alternatives.

TheThunderGuy_S
Avatar level
6

Excellent

10 months ago.

gud cpu

Nikon
Avatar level
6

Good

11 months ago.

I LOVE IT

MonoFinn
Avatar level
6

Excellent

10 months ago.

Ice Lake CPUs haven't released yet, but they already became obsolete:)

jyklone
Avatar level
6

Excellent

9 months ago.

This is the milestone. Finally AMD has passed 4th, 6th 7th gen Intels on Single Core Performance. Great performance and moreover GREAT PRICE

steamedpotato37
Avatar level
6

Excellent

7 months ago.

GREAT

wxjk
Avatar level
6

Good

5 months ago.

very good and a nice price

Qneng
Avatar level
6

Excellent

5 months ago.

Best processor for the price.

Linux4
Avatar level
6

Excellent

5 months ago.

Excellent CPU, overclocked it to 4.2GHz allcore

Toges
Avatar level
4

Excellent

11 months ago.

epic

xivzy
Avatar level
4

Excellent

10 months ago.

incredible price to performance ratio

omegand
Avatar level
4

Excellent

10 months ago.

epic

TendiePepe
Avatar level
4

Excellent

10 months ago.

Great CPU, great price, and great for gaming

Ad4m
Avatar level
4

Excellent

10 months ago.

awesome performance for money best 6 cores CPU awesome gaming experience

EeveeRain
Avatar level
4

Excellent

9 months ago.

Amazing CPU at this price point.

chg3004
Avatar level
4

Excellent

9 months ago.

300~400 fps on csgo

Boomerang1224
Avatar level
4

Excellent

8 months ago.

Excellent arounder

seven
Avatar level
4

Good

7 months ago.

I buy it and i do vote for this. It is chipper price for pcie 4.0

DerpyDerp
Avatar level
4

Good

3 months ago.

Worth the moderate price for such performance.

PouletEnSlip
Avatar level
4

Excellent

3 months ago.

Meilleur rapport qualité/prix pour du gaming.

ryzenlover
Avatar level
4

Excellent

1 month ago.

INTEL FANBOYS: TRIGGERED Excellent Processor, best bang for your buck on a mid range gaming PC.

audessy
Avatar level
4

Excellent

17 days ago.

Amazing bang for the buck. Will auto boost to 4.275ghz on all cores all day and sometimes 4.3ghz single core on a custom loop. Still rock stable.

nessixtyfive
Avatar level
2

Excellent

10 months ago.

Yes.

db29753
Avatar level
2

Good

9 months ago.

not bad good size

PrinceRom
Avatar level
2

Excellent

9 months ago.

It haves a Very good perfomance and it's cheap too. i will buy it later.

Almond
Avatar level
2

Excellent

8 months ago.

An amazing upgrade from an i5-7400

Blarbo
Avatar level
2

Excellent

5 months ago.

ridiculously good value

AD_Shredz
Avatar level
2

Excellent

1 month ago.

No problems thus far! Great CPU and comes with a great stock cooler. I did upgrade mine, but wasn't needed.

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