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8 Cores, 16 Threads @4.5GHz, Zen4.
Release date: Q3 2022.

6 Cores, 12 Threads @3.8GHz, Zen2.
Release date: Q3 2019.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 298,505 user samples
3,546 User Benchmarks
Great bench: 122% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.3 GHz (avg)
Poor bench: 99% Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.25 GHz (avg)
Poor: 99% Great: 122%
SPEED RANK: 46th / 1463
Gaming
Gaming 112%
UFO
Desktop
Desktop 114%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 118%
UFO
294,959 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 92% Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 74% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 0.55 GHz (avg)
Poor: 74% Great: 92%
SPEED RANK: 208th / 1463
Gaming
Gaming 84%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 87%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 79%
Battleship
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
112 % Much faster effective speed.
+34%
84.1 %
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Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
79.8 Pts +4% 76.9 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
205 Pts Much faster single-core speed.
+51%
136 Pts
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
404 Pts Much faster dual-core speed.
+53%
264 Pts
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
775 Pts Much faster quad-core speed.
+58%
490 Pts
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
1383 Pts Much faster octa-core speed.
+71%
808 Pts
Memory
OC Memory Latency
91.3 Pts +5% 87.1 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
217 Pts Much faster OC single-core speed.
+49%
146 Pts
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
434 Pts Much faster OC dual-core speed.
+51%
287 Pts
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
847 Pts Much faster OC quad-core speed.
+53%
553 Pts
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
1648 Pts Hugely faster OC octa-core speed.
+88%
878 Pts
Market Share
Based on 68,721,775 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.23 % 0.27 % Higher market share.
+17%
Value
Value For Money
115 % Better value.
+23%
93.3 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
71 % +1% 70 %
Price
Price (score)
$260 $190 Cheaper.
+27%
Age
Newest
24 Months Much more recent.
+61%
62 Months
TDP
Thermal Design Power (TDP)
105 Watts 95 Watts Slightly more energy efficient.
+10%
Cores
CPU Processing Cores
8 cores Much higher core count.
+33%
6 cores
Threads
CPU Processing Threads
16 threads Much higher thread count.
+33%
12 threads
Lithography
Manufacturing process
5 nm Newer manufacturing.
+29%
7 nm
Base Clock
Base Clock Speed
4.5 GHz Faster base frequency.
+18%
3.8 GHz
Turbo Clock
Turbo Clock Speed
5.4 GHz Faster turbo frequency.
+23%
4.4 GHz
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed
2025 Pts Hugely faster OC 64-core speed.
+83%
1106 Pts
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
1890 Pts Hugely faster 64-core speed.
+86%
1017 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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Early Q3 of 2019 sees the release of the new Ryzen 5 3600X: a hex-core, 12-thread processor. AMD are releasing five new CPUs based on their latest Zen 2 microarchitecture which delivers approximately 13% better IPC than the previous 12nm Zen+. For workstation builds the 3600X is viable, however, the $200 USD Ryzen 5 3600 represents a far better value proposition. The additional $40 USD for the 3600X basically buys a better cooler (Spire vs Stealth). This allows for an extra 200 MHz of extra base and boost clock: 3.8 / 4.4 GHz on the 3600X vs 3.6 / 4.2 GHz on the 3600, this translates to approximately 2% higher overclocked performance for 20% more money. Neither of the stock coolers on the 3600 or 3600X are as effective as a $20 USD aftermarket cooler such as the Gammaxx 400. The 3600 with a Gammaxx 400 outperforms the 3600X with a Spire cooler and when both use a Gammaxx 400 they are more or less identical. The 3600X SKU is basically a marketing gimmick designed to milk unsuspecting consumers. Comparing the 3600X to Intel’s overclocked flagship i5-9600K shows that although the 3600X has 29% faster 64-core speed, it is around 11% worse for gaming (sub eight core performance). Additionally, the 3600X's memory controller, although significantly improved over previous Ryzen iterations, still has limited bandwidth and high latency which can also impact gaming. The arrival of Zen 2 marks the end of the "Sandy Bridge (i5-2500K)" era, Intel can no longer rely exclusively on their single-core advantage to dominate the market, they must also compete on price. [Jul '19 CPUPro]

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