AMD Ryzen 5 3600X (6C12T) CPU Review

1. Introduction2. Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i5-9600K3. Overclocking4. Testing Methodology5. CPU Tests: Cinebench R15 & R20, Blender6. CPU & Memory Tests: 7-Zip, Handbrake x264 & x2657. Memory Tests: Memory Bandwidth and Latency8. Gaming Tests 1: 3DMark, Deus Ex, Far Cry 5, GTA V9. Gaming Tests 2: GRW, Hitman 2, SotTR10. 1440p Gaming Tests: Deus Ex & Far Cry 511. Technical: Power Draw, Efficiency, Temperatures12. Closing Thoughts13. View All Pages

Sandra Memory Bandwidth

AIDA64 Memory Performance

Memory bandwidth is right around where we would expect for 3200MHz DDR4 on Ryzen 3000. The half-speed AIDA write score is due to the single link to Zen 2's segregated IO die, whereas the dual-CCD chips get two links for full speed write performance. We have seen no evidence that this quirk of the Ryzen 3000 single-CCD design hurts performance.

Memory latency is close to what we saw from the higher-end Zen 2 chips, motherboard differences aside. Cache and memory latency registers at 33ms, which is the same as the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X in our testing. By comparison, the Coffee Lake i5 and its dissimilar cache architecture registers at 17ms in our SiSoft Sandra benchmark.

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