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Best Bench: 120% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 101% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)

Poor: 101% Great: 120%

SPEED RANK: 41^st / 1442

Gaming 110%

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Desktop 113%

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Workstation 106%

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Best Bench: 86% Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 64% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg)

Poor: 64% Great: 86%

SPEED RANK: 320^th / 1442

Gaming 74%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 67%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		110 %	Much faster effective speed. +49%		74 %


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	81.7 Pts	Slightly lower memory latency. +7%	76.4 Pts
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	202 Pts	Hugely faster single-core speed. +80%	112 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	392 Pts	Hugely faster dual-core speed. +83%	214 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	746 Pts	Hugely faster quad-core speed. +93%	386 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	1166 Pts	Hugely faster octa-core speed. +81%	643 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	91.2 Pts	Slightly lower OC memory latency. +7%	85.1 Pts
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	213 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +70%	125 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	419 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +70%	247 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	821 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +71%	479 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1254 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +72%	729 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.28 %	Hugely higher market share. +115%	0.13 %
Value Value For Money	120 %	Better value. +28%	93.3 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	82 %		84 %	+2%
Price Price (score)	$208		$120	Much cheaper. +42%


Age Newest	18 Months	Much more recent. +75%	72 Months
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	105 Watts		95 Watts	Slightly more energy efficient. +10%
Cores CPU Processing Cores	6 cores		6 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	12 threads		12 threads
Lithography Manufacturing process	5 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +58%	12 nm
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	4.7 GHz	Much faster base frequency. +31%	3.6 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	5.3 GHz	Faster turbo frequency. +26%	4.2 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	1504 Pts	Much faster OC 64-core speed. +59%	946 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	1429 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +73%	828 Pts


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

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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The 6 core, 12 thread Ryzen 5 2600X is one of four new AMD second generation of high-end desktop Ryzen processors (codenamed Pinnacle Ridge) renowned for excellent value multi-core performance. The 2600X is set to replace the also 6 core, 12 thread 1600X as AMD’s new mid-range Ryzen 5 flagship. The latest generation of CPUs features a matured Zen+ chip architecture with 12nm lithography, increased clock speeds and Precision Boost 2 technology designed to leverage more CPU power than per the first generation. The 2600X appears to have stock base / boost clock speeds of 3.6 / 4.2 GHz. This is only marginally faster than the 1600X’s 3.6 / 4.0 GHz. Modest effective speed improvements are expected, although further benchmarks are necessary to draw firm conclusions. The 2600X ships with a Wraith Spire cooler and is priced reasonably at an expected $250. However, for most use cases, the new lower clocked Ryzen 5 2600 at $200 represents better value for money. Pinnacle Ridge processors are designed to work with the new 400 series motherboards, which allow for greater overclocking head room, and they are also backwards compatible with the 300 series motherboard following a bios update. Even though the 2600X 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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