

That made it 45% faster than the Core i7-7700K and Ryzen 7 2700X. Moving on to WinRAR, the R5 3600 looks very good, falling just short of the 8700K by a mere 4% margin. The single core performance is equally impressive, here the 3600 was just 4% slower than the 3700X and that meant it was able to match the Core i5-9600K and just edge out the 8700K. In 2 years AMD has increased performance at the $200 price point by almost 50%. Then when compare to the R5 1600, the new 3600 is 45% faster. This made it 4% faster than the 8700K, almost 20% faster than the 2600X and 28% faster than the model it's replacing, the R5 2600. Here it matched the Ryzen 7 1800X with just over 3600 pts. We'll start off with Cinebench R20's multi-core test and right away we're blown away by the R5 3600's output. But you can easily cross reference the results posted today with our Ryzen 3900X and 3700X review. Our graphics card of choice was the MSI Trio GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.įor simplicity sake we removed a number of high-end more expensive CPUs from our performance graphs such as the R9 3900X, 9700K, 9900K, Threadripper 2920X and Core i9-7900X as they aren't relevant when looking at a $200 CPU. The Intel CPUs are not TDP restricted, so we're showing the best case scenario for out of the box performance, but we will factor in the cost of an aftermarket cooler for them when we go through our cost analysis at the end of the review. The 8th and 9th-gen Intel Core processors were tested on the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra, using the same RAM modules, but cooled using the Corsair H115i RGB Platinum AIO liquid cooler. It costs $255 and doesn't include a box cooler, so it's not the exact match we were going for, but it will be interesting to see how they stack in terms of raw power.įor testing the new Ryzen processor we used the MSI X570 Creation, configured with DDR4-3200 CL14 memory and the stock cooler. Included in the package is the Wraith Stealth cooler and a MSRP that matches the price the R5 2600 launched at.ĭirect competition for the R5 3600 should come from Intel's Core i5-9600 which is listed at $213, but we don't have that part on hand and it doesn't appear to be on sale either, so the more expensive 9600K will have to do.

The chip clocks between 3.6 GHz and 4.2 GHz, features a 32MB 元 cache and a 65 watt TDP. The successor to our favorite best value CPU, the Ryis AMD's new $200 6-core, 12-thread processor.
