Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

AMD’s highly anticipated 7nm based Ryzen 3000 series processors is just two weeks away from its official release and now another leak has surfaced and this time its AMD Ryzen 5 3600.

The Ryzen 5 3600 has a base clock of 3.6 GHz and can turbo to 4.2 GHz. From the looks of it, somebody has been able to grab a retail package as a photo of the box and proc has been included. The AMD Ryzen 5 3600 was tested on an X470 motherboard, G.Skill FlareX DDR4 @ 3200 MHz and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE. If true, for the money the Ryzen 5 3600 proves to be an interesting mainstream gaming desktop processor.

AMD Ryzen 3000 Series CPU Lineup

CPU Name Ryzen 5 3600 Ryzen 5 3600X Ryzen 7 3700X Ryzen 7 3800X Ryzen 9 3900X Ryzen 9 3950X
Cores/Threads 6/12 6/12 8/16 8/16 12/24 16/32
Base Clock 3.6 GHz 3.8 GHz 3.6 GHz 3.9 GHz 3.8 GHz 3.5 GHz
Boost Clock 4.2 GHz 4.4 GHz 4.4 GHz 4.5 GHz 4.6 GHz 4.7 GHz
Cache (L2+L3) 35 MB 35 MB 36 MB 36 MB 70 MB 72 MB
PCIe Lanes (Gen 4 CPU+PCH) 40 40 40 40 40 40
TDP 65W 95W 65W 105W 105W 105W
Price $199 US $249 US $329 US $399 US $499 US $749 US

When tested, in terms of multi-core performance, the Ryzen 5 3600 can outperform an Intel Core i7-9700K ($374), while single-core performance is approaching an Intel Core i9-9900K ($485). It’s a bit of a monster, to be honest, and demonstrates impressive IPC improvements from AMD. This is the weakest of all the announced Ryzen 3000 Zen 2 CPUs and AMD is coming out fighting.

Overall, the initial results and the leaks seem to be quite promising and we cannot wait to test this processor ourselves. However, The fun part would be to see how its bigger siblings such as the Ryzen 7 3800Xand Ryzen 9 3950X make mincemeat out of Intel’s current desktop offerings.

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