Benchmarks Show AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Measuring Up to Intel’s i7-8700K

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New numbers on Geekbench suggest that AMD’s new Ryzen 5 3600 CPU compares very favorably with Intel’s Core i7-8700K. That’s interesting, considering there’s a $150+ difference between the chips. There are two sets of scores; one for an X570 setup, another for X470.

Both yield a different score than each other due to different system configuration but the single and multi-thread scores are pretty much similar in both cases. The X570 configuration scores 5390 points in single-core & 26371 points in multi-score points while the X470 configuration scores 5358 points in single core and 27485 points in the multi-score section of the benchmark.

How does that compare to Intel’s 8700K and older Ryzen chips? Pretty well: in the X570 benchmark, the 3600 scores just 10 points lower than the i7 for single core, and 1,371 higher for multi-core.

For comparison, the Ryzen 7 1800X scores on an average 4400 points in single and 24000 points in multi-core benchmarks, the 8700K scores an average 5400 points in single and 25000 points in the multi-core benchmarks while the Ryzen 5 2600 scores around 4700 points in single & 23000 points in multi-core benchmarks. The performance increase over Zen and Zen+ based chips is just stellar while the chip at its given price points should give the Core i7-8700K and the Core i7-9700K a hard time in the market.

Additionally, RedGamingTech found that the Ryzen 5 3600 offered even better gaming performance than the Core i7-8700 in PUBG.

Numbers out of UserBenchmark are also implying Zen 2 enjoys a 7% IPC improvement over Coffee Lake.
  • 3600 @ 4.05ghz = 134.
  • A 7700k @ 5.1 gets a 157.
  • 157 / 5.1 * 4.05 = ~125.
That means Zen 2 has a ~7% advantage in IPC in this specific (single threaded) benchmark (if the single threaded turbo actually was 4.05GHz).
 
Its interesting that AMD is sampling these so early and allowing the numbers to circulate like this. It's a good sign that Ryzen (Zen 2) 3xxx series chips will be everything we were told they would be from the start.
 
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