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6 Cores, 12 Threads @4.7GHz, Zen4.
Release date: Q3 2022.

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

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 1,076,700 user samples
4,061 User Benchmarks
Great bench: 120% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.3 GHz (avg)
Poor bench: 101% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.1 GHz (avg)
Poor: 101% Great: 120%
SPEED RANK: 50th / 1463
Gaming
Gaming 110%
UFO
Desktop
Desktop 113%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 105%
UFO
1,072,639 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 92% Base clock 4.45 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 73% Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)
Poor: 73% Great: 92%
SPEED RANK: 214th / 1463
Gaming
Gaming 83%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 85%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 77%
Battleship
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
110 % Much faster effective speed.
+33%
83.1 %
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
83.1 Pts Slightly lower memory latency.
+9%
76.3 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
201 Pts Much faster single-core speed.
+51%
133 Pts
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
394 Pts Much faster dual-core speed.
+52%
259 Pts
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
739 Pts Much faster quad-core speed.
+53%
483 Pts
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
1156 Pts Much faster octa-core speed.
+46%
792 Pts
Memory
OC Memory Latency
92.4 Pts Slightly lower OC memory latency.
+6%
87.5 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
211 Pts Much faster OC single-core speed.
+50%
141 Pts
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
422 Pts Much faster OC dual-core speed.
+50%
281 Pts
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
821 Pts Much faster OC quad-core speed.
+50%
546 Pts
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
1281 Pts Much faster OC octa-core speed.
+47%
869 Pts
Market Share
Based on 68,738,845 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.34 % 1.21 % Hugely higher market share.
+256%
Value
Value For Money
120 % Slightly better value.
+5%
114 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
83 % 94 % More popular.
+13%
Price
Price (score)
$205 $88 Much cheaper.
+57%
Age
Newest
24 Months Much more recent.
+62%
63 Months
TDP
Thermal Design Power (TDP)
105 Watts 65 Watts Much more energy efficient.
+38%
Cores
CPU Processing Cores
6 cores 6 cores
Threads
CPU Processing Threads
12 threads 12 threads
Lithography
Manufacturing process
5 nm Newer manufacturing.
+29%
7 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
1503 Pts Much faster OC 64-core speed.
+38%
1091 Pts
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
1401 Pts Much faster 64-core speed.
+40%
999 Pts
Series
CPU Architecture
Zen4 Zen2
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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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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