We’ll push harder with liquid nitrogen later in the week.įinally, FCLK will be a big part of memory overclocking later on. We stopped at 1.46V as we encountered issues with, predictably, thermals on a reasonable 280mm CLC. We were able to push 4.4GHz on the 3900X with SMT disabled, shown in our 3900X review that’s still rendering at time of writing this, but we could not reach 4.4GHz on any chip under 1.46V.
Our R9 3900X could do 4.3GHz all-core at 1.34V to 1.35V, the R7 3700X could hold similar voltages, but the R5 3600 required 1.43V for 4.3GHz all-core. The upside is that the limited R5 core count means it can take the higher voltages as there’s lower thermal density to dissipate. With a sample size of one each, we can’t draw conclusions - maybe it’s luck or maybe R5 just runs with a higher voltage. We don’t suspect they were binned by AMD for reviewers, though we did want to point it out. Our R5 3600 is a production sample from a third party, so we have two thoughts, here: (1) Most realistically, the R5 CPUs probably aren’t binned as aggressively as the 12-core part, which would need lower voltages for thermal reasons, and (2) the samples AMD shipped had paste left over on them and they were pretested. We noticed that, interestingly, our R9 3900X and R7 3700X overclocked with much lower voltage requirements than our R5 3600. Some of our error margins have been reduced to 0.1FPS AVG as a result, which is fantastic. By controlling this ourselves, we eliminate this variable. “Unfair” in this instance typically means “uncharacteristically bad” as a result of poor tuning by the motherboard maker. This has tightened our margin of error considerably and has reduced concern of “unfair” timings being auto-applied by the various motherboards we have to use for CPU reviews. Previously, we worked to control critical timings, like primary and RFC, but we are now controlling all timings manually. That includes secondary and tertiary timings. Starting with these new reviews, we are now manually controlling every timing surfaced. The memory kit is an important change for us. The 32GB capacity is needed for our Photoshop and Premiere benchmarks, which are memory-intensive and would throttle without the capacity.
#Ryzen 5 3600 benchmark windows#
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#Ryzen 5 3600 benchmark plus#
We don't focus on ad revenue on the site these days and instead focus on our GN Store products and Patreon for revenue, plus ad revenue on YouTube. We invested all we could into getting multiple reviews ready for launch day and will stagger publication throughout the day due to YouTube's distribution of content. The editorial/testing team was two people, working in shifts literally around the clock for 24/7 bench coverage, and the video production team was three people (all credited at article's end, as always). This week has been the busiest in our careers at GN. Today, we’re revisiting with the R5 3600 6-core, 12-thread CPU to look at gaming, production workloads with Premiere, Blender, V-Ray, and more, power consumption, and overclocking. We’ve been recommending AMD’s R5 CPUs since the first generation, as Intel’s i5 CPUs have seen struggles lately in frametime consistency and are often close enough to AMD that the versatility, frametime consistency, and close-enough gaming performance have warranted R5 purchases.
We got a production sample of one of the R5 3600 CPUs through a third-party and, after seeing its performance, we wanted to focus first on this one for our initial Ryzen 3000 review. Alongside the 3900X and 3700X that we’re also reviewing, AMD launched its R5 3600 today to the public.
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