AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT CPU Review – 4.6GHz OC!

1. Ryzen 5 3600XT - Enhanced Silicon2. All-Core and Boost Operating Frequencies3. Manual Overclocking - 4.6GHz On All Cores!4. Testing Methodology5. CPU Tests: Cinebench R20 & Blender6. CPU Tests: 7-Zip Decompression & Compression7. CPU Tests: Handbrake H264 & H2658. Memory Tests: Memory Bandwidth and Latency9. Gaming: Red Dead Redemption 210. Gaming: Shadow of the Tomb Raider11. Gaming: The Division 212. Technical: Power Draw, Efficiency, Temperatures13. Value: Cinebench Performance per £14. Closing Thoughts15. View All Pages

Red Dead Redemption 2

We run the game with image settings manually set to High and the DirectX 12 mode enabled.

Red Dead Redemption 2 at 1080P shows the stock clocked Ryzen 5 3600XT to be just as fast as other Zen 2 chips when accounting for margins of error. Overclocking technically delivers a gain in average and 1% low FPS numbers, but the difference is realistically minimal.

Intel’s stock clocked Core i5-10600K is better able to leverage the GPU horsepower and delivers numbers closer to its Comet Lake siblings at around 10-15 FPS higher than the 3600XT. If you are a high refresh rate 1080P gamer, that frame rate improvement from the 10600K versus the 3600XT may be important to you.

With the resolution increased to 1440P, the Ryzen 5 3600XT continues to show strong performance that is comparable to even the higher core count Zen 2 chips. Overclocking to the lofty 4.6GHz frequency also delivers a small but repeatable gain in performance.

Once again, the Core i5-10600K is faster, but this time the margin of improvement is closer to around 6 FPS and may therefore be of slightly less importance even to high refresh rate gamers.

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