Our two samples were bought on retail and from this tiny sample that wasn’t the case, both were limited to 4.2 GHz at 1.35v and both could boot into Windows at 4.3 GHz, but even with 1.4v failed even a basic stress test.Before going into in-depth testing though, here's a quick run down in regards to how these two CPUs compare on paper. The Ryzen 5 3600 comes clocked at 3.6 GHz for the base and 4.2 GHz for the boost, the 3600X runs 200 MHz faster at 3.8 GHz and 4.4 GHz, so a 6% base clock increase and a 5% boost clock increase. While we could ask AMD for those figures, in the end it doesn’t really matter as both CPUs are essentially the same, the only difference being the base and boost clock speeds which on paper differ by up to 6%.Before wrapping this up let’s have another look at power usage, this time focusing on CPU package power and core current.We haven’t discussed manual overclocking. Scopri quale è il migliore e la loro prestazione generale nella classifica CPU´s. Comparing the 3600X to Intel’s overclocked flagship i5-9600K shows that although the 3600X has 29% faster 64-core speed, it is around 11% worse for gaming (sub eight core performance). In short, using either cooler the 3600X ran 6 degrees hotter and you can expect some throttling with the Stealth cooler, so lets re-run this test again with the Corsair H115i Pro installed.© 2020 TechSpot, Inc. All Rights Reserved.We suspect the reason so many of you asked for this comparison is once again the misleading TDP ratings. The only other change in specification is the TDP, the R5 3600 is a 65 watt part and the 3600X a 95 watt part. Not a big deal though.AMD explains how they calculate the TDP for Zen 2 processors in the review guide, but it doesn’t help address the issue as there are variables we don’t know, such as the optimal operating temperatures for each part. Additionally, the 3600X's memory controller, although significantly improved over previous Ryzen iterations, still has limited bandwidth and high latency which can also impact gaming. Is the Ryzen 5 3600X worth purchasing over the 3600? Not at all. So it’s pretty clear by this point that in terms of performance the 3600 and 3600X are basically the same.We only see a 1 fps difference in The Division 2 and we should also note that the 3600X and 3600 match the 3700X in this title and we saw a similar thing when testing with Battlefield V and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.Moving on to Adobe Premiere we see the biggest performance gain yet as the 3600X reduced the render time by 5%, taking 513 seconds opposed to 539 seconds. The only thing that makes the R5 3600 a 65 watt TDP part, is the 65 watt cooler, while the 3600X is a 95 watt TDP part because it comes with a 95 watt cooler. - YouTube You can basically swap the coolers around and reverse the results. Stock the 3600 hit 80 degrees whereas the 3600X ran 2 degrees cooler at 78 degrees, but it did so while clocking 100 MHz higher, a 2.5% increase in frequency.Both CPUs were tested on the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Xtreme with 16GB of G.Skill’s FlareX DDR4-3200 CL14 memory and a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti on the graphics side.Meanwhile the single core performance sees an increase of just 3%, going from 481 pts to 497 pts.Moving on to games and… not much to say here either. CSGO on Ryzen 5 3600x + RTX 2060 1080p benchmarks! Temperatures were exactly the same and clock speeds were also basically identical, in fact the R5 3600 maintained a slightly better PBO frequency in our test, though we wouldn’t read into that too much, there’s a good chance if we ran this enough times with enough CPUs we’d find that on average there’d be no difference in operating frequency.Having tested both R5 3600 models (see all of that further down below), here's the tale of the tape: Qual è la differenza fra AMD Ryzen 5 3600X e AMD Ryzen 5 3600? Some might argue the 3600X is a binned part and therefore will overclock better than the 3600. The 3600 and 3600X basically delivered identical performance in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the 3600X was ~2% faster which equates to a 2 fps difference at most.The Cinebench R20 multi-core shows a very mild 2% increase in performance for the 3600X over the vanilla 3600. -- that doesn’t justify the 25% price increase.This time the 3600X reduced the render time by just 4% when testing with Blender, at this point you’re probably starting to question why we need two 6-core/12-thread Zen 2-based CPUs.Then with PBO+AutoOC enabled, the 3600 hit 84 degrees but only ran 25 MHz faster, while the 3600X also hit 84 degrees but ran 50 MHz faster for a 3% increase over the 3600.The 3700X does offer a small performance boost over the 3600X in Shadow of the Tomb Raider but the 3600X was only up to 3% faster than the 3600.