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more when we think of a high performance CPU these days it's all about the
processing course i mean sure 5.3
gigahertz is more than 5 gigahertz but if you've only got four cores versus
eight you're getting left behind but that's not how things used to be
just three short years ago four cores was all you needed on the desktop mostly
because a single company decided that for you so in this installment of why
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we're gonna see why the invisible hand of the free market thinks that the ryzen
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the ryzen 5 3600 is currently the number one best seller on amazon.com with 3rd
gen ryzen in general making up 7 of the
top 10 which is just an unbelievable coup for AMD
it's a similar story on newegg with 3rd gen only eclipsed by previous gen chips
from both AMD and Intel that frequently end up on clearance specials
but how did these multi-core ryzen cpus come to dominate the market in the first
place to answer this we have to go way
back to the mid-2000s the last time that
AMD was a competitive threat to Intel
AMD had the athlon x2 and Intel had the
core 2 duo and even back then the advantages of having more CPU cores in
those cases two were mostly in making sure that background tasks wouldn't
suddenly spike your CPU and grind whatever you were doing in the
foreground to a screeching halt when phenom 2 flopped and AMD's disastrous fx
cpus failed to provoke a response out of Intel the industry kind of settled into
quad core as the top of the line while software continued to play catch-up
that meant that despite multi-threading becoming more mainstream as older single
core cpus became obsolete most software could only really count on
there being two to four cores in the
typical computer sold at your local best buy so that is what most games and
desktop software got optimized for now Intel kept going with the easy to
produce and easy to remember product lineup all the way until 2017 when
generational improvements became so meager that something had to give
enter AMD ryzen with up to double the
CPU course for roughly the same price i mean sure early software struggled to
take advantage of the new course not to mention AMD's unique core layout but
today this has been mostly resolved and AMD has not only caught up with Intel
but have actually surpassed them in many ways not that it was easy at the root of the
trouble was global foundries AMD's chip production partner who struggled with 14
nanometer and later 12 nanometer production that led to stability issues
due to poor quality silicon and even consumers who wanted a ryzen CPU
couldn't always find one on the shelf due to product shortages unlike at
lttstore.com where you never even see a shelf because it's online with today's
third gen ryzens though AMD has two big things going for them first is tsmc's
much improved seven nanometer process this is big well metaphorically speaking
while nanometers aren't always relevant seven nanometer was a major leap forward
and provided a much needed shot in the ARM for ryzen and enabled the second big
improvement the chiplet design that's used throughout the lineup
chiplets or core complex dies or ccds
are made much smaller than traditional all-in-one processor dies because what
they do is they move all the complex io to a separate dial together allowing AMD
to essentially just produce one type of small ccd and then thanks to
the magic of binning bundle them with whichever i o die they need since
they're essentially the same physical design across the entire product stack
this means that overall performance stability and yields all improve and the
number of core combinations increases so a single ccd chip like our ryzen 5 3600
can have anywhere from four to eight cores
and those exact same ccds can be combined and rearranged in an array of
up to eight of them to create up to a 64
core threadripper that's very streamlined from a production standpoint
now back to the 3600 for a moment though this is a CPU that kind of straddles the
line between the old and the new with
six reasonably fast multi-threading capable cores and with a very attractive
price about 205 not to mention that it comes with a
cooler in the box although we wouldn't recommend using
that if you want to overclock which of course though you're free to do on all
ryzen cpus AMD's older cpus are still
strong contenders though so it all comes
down to compatibility no matter what generation of ryzen
motherboard you have you can actually run any of these cpus
so if you're waiting for zen 3 you can buy a ryzen 5 2600 and save a buck today
with the option of upgrading later on and the cool thing is it works the other
way around too if you've got a first gen ryzen system you can actually get a
significant increase in performance by upgrading to a ryzen 5 3600 today and
then just drop it in with a simple BIOS update this is a huge advantage for AMD
right now because Intel's z370 chipset actually broke compatibility on older
cpus with their z490 successor on a
completely new socket so if you're like most people you'll
probably feel a bit burned about only getting two generations of compatibility
with team blue for all these years when for the past several years
AMD has done a much better job of maintaining intergenerational
compatibility by the way AMD is due to
launch 4th gen ryzen very soon so get subscribed so you don't miss our review
as for the performance of this puppy well there's a reason why our budget 4k
video editing pc used a ryzen 5 3600
taking advantage of a compatible previous generation motherboard we got
the cost of our whole workstation down below a thousand dollars and without any
overclocking impress the heck out of dennis who usually edits videos on a
workstation that costs twice as much and don't take just our word alone steve
over at gamersnexus found that in general productivity performance of this
chip is roughly in line with Intel's core i5 10600k a CPU that costs nearly a
hundred dollars more and doesn't even have a cooler in the box and it's no
secret that the ryzen 5 3600 will handle gaming too albeit with performance that
below but not far below team blue especially
at this price point this combination of acceptable gaming performance and
stellar productivity has attracted tinkerers content creators and of course
thrift seeking gamers it just straight up is the best all-arounder do
everything CPU it's not the you know star of the show
at anything but it doesn't have to be it
can go wherever you need it and it comes with everything you need to run it's
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back to other Linus thanks for watching guys if you enjoyed this video hey maybe
go check out our most recent why is everyone buying this where we focused on
tvs and the manufacturing challenges that they face to bring costs down