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AMDYD2600BBAFBOX

12 Cores, 24 Threads @4.7GHz, Zen4.
Release date: Q3 2022.

6 Cores, 12 Threads @3.4GHz, Zen+.
Release date: Q2 2018.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 182,021 user samples
2,433 User Benchmarks
Great bench: 124% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.35 GHz (avg)
Poor bench: 96% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg)
Poor: 96% Great: 124%
SPEED RANK: 47th / 1468
Gaming
Gaming 113%
UFO
Desktop
Desktop 116%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 133%
UFO
179,588 User Benchmarks
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: 350th / 1468
Gaming
Gaming 73%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 76%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 66%
Battle cruiser
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
113 % Much faster effective speed.
+54%
73.3 %
14 Nov19|PCGamer
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X review
9 % Hitm2 26%, FarC5 0%, SotTR 26%, ACO 15%, MetroEx 6%, Divis2 13% StrangeB 2%, TWarW2 1%, MESoW 1%
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
81.9 Pts Slightly lower memory latency.
+7%
76.6 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
210 Pts Hugely faster single-core speed.
+94%
108 Pts
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
408 Pts Hugely faster dual-core speed.
+94%
210 Pts
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
771 Pts Hugely faster quad-core speed.
+105%
377 Pts
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
1465 Pts Hugely faster octa-core speed.
+136%
621 Pts
Memory
OC Memory Latency
92.9 Pts Lower OC memory latency.
+11%
83.8 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
221 Pts Hugely faster OC single-core speed.
+87%
118 Pts
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
439 Pts Hugely faster OC dual-core speed.
+89%
232 Pts
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
867 Pts Hugely faster OC quad-core speed.
+94%
446 Pts
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
1727 Pts Hugely faster OC octa-core speed.
+155%
676 Pts
Market Share
Based on 68,908,164 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.19 % 0.46 % Hugely higher market share.
+142%
Value
Value For Money
104 % Better value.
+13%
92.4 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
58 % 77 % Much more popular.
+33%
Price
Price (score)
$377 $120 Much cheaper.
+68%
Age
Newest
25 Months Much more recent.
+68%
78 Months
TDP
Thermal Design Power (TDP)
170 Watts 65 Watts Much more energy efficient.
+62%
Cores
CPU Processing Cores
12 cores Hugely higher core count.
+100%
6 cores
Threads
CPU Processing Threads
24 threads Hugely higher thread count.
+100%
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.
+38%
3.4 GHz
Turbo Clock
Turbo Clock Speed
5.6 GHz Much faster turbo frequency.
+44%
3.9 GHz
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed
2988 Pts Hugely faster OC 64-core speed.
+236%
889 Pts
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
2657 Pts Hugely faster 64-core speed.
+232%
800 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 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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