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Best Bench: 81% Base clock 4.1 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 67% Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg)

Poor: 67% Great: 81%

SPEED RANK: 339^th / 1456

Gaming 73%

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 66%

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Great bench: 122% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)
Poor bench: 95% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)

Poor: 95% Great: 122%

SPEED RANK: 39^th / 1456

Gaming 113%

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Desktop 116%

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Workstation 135%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		73.3 %			113 %	Much faster effective speed. +55%


14 Nov19\|PCGamer AMD Ryzen 9 3950X review			StrangeB 2%, TWarW2 1%, MESoW 1%		9 %	Hitm2 26%, FarC5 0%, SotTR 26%, ACO 15%, MetroEx 6%, Divis2 13%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	76.6 Pts	80.7 Pts	Slightly lower memory latency. +5%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	108 Pts	210 Pts	Hugely faster single-core speed. +94%
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	210 Pts	412 Pts	Hugely faster dual-core speed. +96%
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	377 Pts	780 Pts	Hugely faster quad-core speed. +107%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	621 Pts	1502 Pts	Hugely faster octa-core speed. +142%


Memory OC Memory Latency	83.8 Pts	90.8 Pts	Slightly lower OC memory latency. +8%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	118 Pts	221 Pts	Hugely faster OC single-core speed. +87%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	232 Pts	433 Pts	Hugely faster OC dual-core speed. +87%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	446 Pts	857 Pts	Hugely faster OC quad-core speed. +92%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	676 Pts	1680 Pts	Hugely faster OC octa-core speed. +149%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.42 %	Hugely higher market share. +223%	0.13 %
Value Value For Money	88.6 %		103 %	Better value. +16%
User Rating UBM User Rating	76 %	More popular. +29%	59 %
Price Price (score)	$140	Much cheaper. +65%	$398


Age Newest	74 Months		21 Months	Much more recent. +72%
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watts	Much more energy efficient. +62%	170 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	6 cores		12 cores	Hugely higher core count. +100%
Threads CPU Processing Threads	12 threads		24 threads	Hugely higher thread count. +100%
Lithography Manufacturing process	12 nm		5 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +58%
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.4 GHz		4.7 GHz	Much faster base frequency. +38%
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	3.9 GHz		5.6 GHz	Much faster turbo frequency. +44%
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	889 Pts		2990 Pts	Hugely faster OC 64-core speed. +236%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	800 Pts		2728 Pts	Hugely faster 64-core speed. +241%


Series CPU Architecture	Zen+	Zen4
Socket Motherboard Socket	AM4	AM5
Graphics Integrated Graphics	None	RDNA2

The Ryzen 5 2600, from AMD’s second generation (Zen+) of high-end desktop Ryzen processors, supersedes the first generation Ryzen 5 1600. The newer generation sees a lithography reduction from 14nm to 12nm, but no increase in the number of cores and threads (6 and 12 respectively) over the ground-breaking first generation which continues to surpass similarly priced Intel CPUs in terms of multi-core performance. In other words, progress between generations is predominantly driven by power efficiency and therefore higher attainable clock speeds. The 2600 appears to have a stock base/boost clock of 3.4 / 3.9 GHz compared to the 1600’s 3.2 / 3.6 GHz which is expected to result in a modest increase in effective speed that said, early benchmarks are inconclusive. Included in the expected retail price of about $200 is a Wraith Stealth cooler, so the 2600, like the 1600 before it, represents great value for workstation users. The 2600 compliments the new 400 series motherboards and is also backwards compatible with the 300 series following a bios update. Even though the 2600 is plausible for multimedia production streamers should look elsewhere. Streaming with dedicated hardware such as NVENC or a separate stream PC will nearly always result in fewer dropped frames. ^{[Apr '18 CPUPro]}

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Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. ^{[Sep '22 CPUPro]}

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