The AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Geekbench and UserBenchmark scores were leaked soon after the global Zen 2 launch at Computex 2019. The 7nm based Zen 2 chips were faster than both the Ryzen 7 2700X as well as the Threadripper 1920X in both the single-threaded as well as multi-threaded tests, but a tad bit slower than the Coffee Lake chips on account of the slower clocks. Now, a Ryzen 5 3600 benchmark has surfaced with faster 3000MHz DDR4 memory and the CPU is even faster than the earlier leaked benchmark.
Although the multi-core performance is more or less unaffected, the single threaded score is higher by almost 100 points. This makes the mid-range Ryzen 3000 processor 25% faster than the last-gen Ryzen 5 2600 and almost 40% faster than the first-gen Zen part. This is a significant IPC boost and by far the highest we’ve seen this decade.
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Comparing the third-gen Ryzen 5 to the Intel product-stack, owing to the higher clock speeds, the Coffee Lake parts are still somewhat faster, but if you compare it to the similarly clocked i3-8350K (CFL), they are both more or less on par with each other. We are comparing the IPC or single-threaded performance here, not the multi-threaded, so the core count won’t have an impact, only the clocks.
The multi-threaded performance is not increased by much but it’s still faster than most of the products in the sub-$250
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Learn the difference between IPC and Single Core performance.
IPC stands for Instructions per Clock Cycle. Although they’re not the same thing, they can be interchangeably if the clock speeds are similar as the difference isn’t usually that much.
That’s a big if right there.
That’s a big if right there.