![]() With that in mind, then, let's take a look at some lovely graphs - and as you can see, the Ryis pretty much up there with its X-rated sibling across each of my four test games at 1920x1080. I’ve included some cursory Cinebench R20 results below to give us a rough idea of how each CPU stacks up for single and multicore desktop tasks, but really, my main goal here is to work out what CPU is the best for gaming and gaming alone. I’ve also only focused mainly on gaming performance in this review than I have on, say, application performance or media creation bits and bobs because, well, I’m not really interested in that. As a result, I’ve done the best I can with the equipment available to me, but you may want to read around a bit more to get a better picture of things. There are several other factors that can affect your PC's gaming performance, for example, such as your graphics card, the type of RAM you’ve got, and even what type of storage you’ve installed the game on, and there's also the additional problem that a lot of PC gaming benchmarks just don’t test your CPU properly.įortunately, a handful of gaming benchmarks have got a lot better at this recently, with the likes of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 4, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and more all providing an in-depth look at your CPU’s performance as well as what your graphics card’s doing. I should note, of course, that (as I've mentioned in previous gaming CPU reviews), getting a truly accurate picture of what your CPU's doing while playing games is still a pretty difficult task. Is it really worth skimping the extra £20 / $50 and getting the Ryinstead of the 3600X, though? Well, if you only use your PC for gaming as opposed to more advanced tasks like photo and video editing, then the answer is almost certainly a resounding 'yes'. Motherboard: Asus Crosshair Hero VIII (Wi-Fi) However, you'll still need to pay extra for a cooler with Intel, as it sadly doesn't come with one in the box. The Core i5-9600K, meanwhile, is currently nestled in the middle of these two processors, with prices starting at £210 / $245. It's cheaper, too, with prices sitting at £200 / $200 at time of writing, and it comes bundled with the same decent AMD Wraith Spire cooler as the £220 / $250 Ryzen 5 3600X. That's still pretty fast in the grand scheme of things, though (even Intel's Core i5-9600K's base speed is only a fraction quicker at 3.7GHz, for example), and it also has the added bonus of only requiring 65W of power, as opposed to the 95W you'll need for the 3600X and 9600K. It's still got six cores and twelve threads under its hood, for example, but whereas the 3600X had a base clock speed of 3.8GHz, which was able to rise to 4.4GHz, the regular 3600 starts at 3.6GHz and maxes out at 4.2GHz. Here's wot I think.īuilt using the same Zen 2 architecture and 7nm manufacturing process as the rest of AMD's Ryzen 3000 family, the Ryis effectively a slightly slower, but more energy efficient version of its X-rated sibling, the Ryzen 5 3600X. Well, scratch that recommendation, because its regular, non-X sibling, the Ryzen 5 3600, is even better value for money than its £240 / $250 big brother - and almost certainly the CPU to buy if you're looking to keep costs down to as near to £200 / $200 as you possibly can. That is a 3% performance improvement to the Ryzen 5 3600X.When I tested AMD's Ryzen 5 3600X CPU just over a week ago, I said it was a great alternative to our best gaming CPU mid-range champ, the Intel Core i5-9600K. In V-Ray the Ryzen 5 3600X scores 10731 ksamples while the Ryscores 10465 ksamples. That’s about a 4%-time savings or twenty or so seconds. The Ryzen 5 3600X took 14 minutes and 55 seconds while the Rytook 15 minutes and 13 seconds. In HandBrake we are testing the time it takes to transcode a 10-minute video. Overall, it’s a small time savings with the fastest 3600X. That is about a 4%-time savings toward the Ryzen 5 3600X, but in real-time that’s not even a full minute. This one took 22 minutes and 42 seconds on the Ryzen 5 3600X and 23 minutes and 30 seconds on the Ryzen 5 3600. That is hardly worth it as far as rendering time saved. The Ryzen 5 3600X takes 11 minutes and 33 seconds. In this first graph, we are looking at the time it takes to render Pavillon Barcelona scene using the CPU only. ![]() That’s a 5% performance increase in single-thread to the Ryzen 5 3600X. The Ryzen 5 3600X scores 510 while the Ryscores 484. Once again we see the 3% figure, the Ryzen 5 3600X is 3% faster in Cinebench compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. The Ryzen 5 3600X scores 3743 while the Ryscores 3629. In this first graph, we are looking at the Multi-Thread results from Cinebench. ![]()
1 Comment
|