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Best Bench: 120% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.35 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 97% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.9 GHz (avg)

Poor: 97% Great: 120%

SPEED RANK: 41^st / 1441

Gaming 110%

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Desktop 113%

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Workstation 105%

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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: 201^st / 1441

Gaming 83%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 77%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		110 %	Much faster effective speed. +33%		83.1 %


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	84 Pts	Lower memory latency. +10%	76.3 Pts
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	200 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +50%	133 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	389 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +50%	259 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	733 Pts	Much faster quad-core speed. +52%	483 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	1152 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +45%	792 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	94.7 Pts	Slightly lower OC memory latency. +8%	87.5 Pts
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	215 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +52%	141 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	421 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +50%	281 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	835 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +53%	546 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1285 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +48%	869 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.27 %		1.59 %	Hugely higher market share. +489%
Value Value For Money	119 %	+3%	116 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	82 %		95 %	More popular. +16%
Price Price (score)	$208		$82	Much cheaper. +61%


Age Newest	18 Months	Much more recent. +68%	57 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	1530 Pts	Much faster OC 64-core speed. +40%	1091 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	1426 Pts	Much faster 64-core speed. +43%	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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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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