AMD Ryzen 5 Matisse 3600X BOX (100-100000022BOX)

Natural selection

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X is a senior twelve-thread processor based on the 7nm Zen 2 architecture. It has a more “aggressive” frequency formula than the younger brother AMD 3600: 3.8 – 4.4 versus 3.6 – 4.2 GHz. This is achieved by manually selecting the most successful CCD chiplets from the batch, as well as by increasing the supply voltage to about 1.3 V and, as a result, power consumption and heating up to 95 W (against 65 W for the 3600).

copper heart

Fortunately, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a better boxed cooler: not a miniature all-aluminium Wrath Stealth, but a mid-sized Wrath Stealth with a copper core. This allows Precision Boost 2 technology to automatically overclock the processor across all cores to a frequency of 4.0 – 4.1 GHz. Taking into account the increased IPC (instructions per clock) and doubled cache (32 vs. 16 MB), the advantage over the previous Ryzen 5 2600X on the 12nm Zen + architecture is 25 percent.

Home overclocking

In the case of using a large tower cooler or a two-section dropsy, as well as a motherboard with support for Load-Line Calibration technology, the Ryzen 5 3600X can be manually forced to work stably at a frequency of 4.3 – 4.4 GHz across all cores. Whereas processors with numerous cores, such as the sixteen-thread AMD 3700X, are usually not able to achieve such high home overclocking results. The same goes for the younger Ryzen 5 3500, which often uses less successful chiplets.

Honorary record holder

It turns out that the 3600X is actually AMD's highest clocked processor at the moment and is best suited for gaming for that reason. The only weak point of AMD processors is the RAM controller, which in the case of Matisse is also placed in a separate IOD chiplet. Because of this, the latency (latency) of DDR4 3600 MHz memory is as much as 70 ns, while competing Intel Cores have only 50 ms. However, Ryzen Matisse more than compensate for this with twice the faster L3 cache.