#Ryzen 5 3600XT

Like the original Ryzen 3000-series of processors, the XT chips are built on the 7nm manufacturing process, optimized and refined to reach higher operating speeds. However, despite being objectively better, AMD has decided to sell the new XT parts alongside the X (and Non-X for the Ryzen 5) variant, at a low price increase. So for today, what we'll be checking out is the most affordable variant, the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Specifications, Price, Unboxing The Ryzen 5 3600XT received a minor 100MHz increase to its boost speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X variant. Test Setup and Overclocking To test the Ryzen 5 3600XT, we used the following setup: [table id=1490 /] Author's Note: We downgraded the BIOS from the latest version 3.20 to 1.40, as we experienced instability with anything but the stock configuration. We tested both the single and multi-core performance of the CPU, and we got the following results: Here we can see overclocking the Ryzen 5 3600XT nets 8.5% performance gains on the multi-core score over the out of the box configuration. With sufficient cooling, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has proven to be a capable processor, of overclocking the Ryzen 5 3600XT does not net significant gains, CPU Tests: Gaming Benchmarks Next up are gaming benchmarks. Here, the Ryzen 5 3600XT managed to consistently hit the 200FPS frame cap, save for instances when there were a lot of explosions and bullets going on in the screen. Read more in our articles including "AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT Review" and "AMD announces Ryzen 5 desktop processors".