These chips look a lot more skookum than AMD let on.
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Worth upgrading from 3600 to 5600x?
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These chips look a lot more skookum than AMD let on.
Mostly high I can't remember them all but I can check tomorrow.
Had to google that word. Yeah I'm quite happy with it. I might get rid of my 3700x in favour of it.
It's also 1000 points better on firestrike than the 3700x
Haha me too. What an awesome word.
Thank you! Enjoy it.
Ive also installed a 5600X today and done a few tests.
I was running a Ryzen 3600, 32GB 3200 ballistix and a RTX 3080
i only upgraded to a Ryzen 3600 2 weeks ago so not had chance to compare much.
Ive seen a some maybe 2-5% fps increase in a few games, Horizonal Zero dawn seemed to go up 10% but was already amazing on the Ryzen 3600.
A fully modded Fallout4 with enb, still dipped into the 50'fps when looking in the same direction as the 3600, that was my main test as my late i7 3770K was in the 30's. Buit I think that engine isnt the best.
Benchmarks show a nice 14-19% increase.
So, overall I am happy with that cheap upgrade from the 2nd hand 3600. The increase means im futureproof for a bit.
But for gaming, its not going to be much different at higher resolutions.
Im happy for the price I paid, but for a 30% RRP increase over a current Ryzen 3600 im not sure.
I was running a Ryzen 3600, 32GB 3200 ballistix and a RTX 3080
i only upgraded to a Ryzen 3600 2 weeks ago so not had chance to compare much.
Ive seen a some maybe 2-5% fps increase in a few games, Horizonal Zero dawn seemed to go up 10% but was already amazing on the Ryzen 3600.
A fully modded Fallout4 with enb, still dipped into the 50'fps when looking in the same direction as the 3600, that was my main test as my late i7 3770K was in the 30's. Buit I think that engine isnt the best.
Benchmarks show a nice 14-19% increase.
So, overall I am happy with that cheap upgrade from the 2nd hand 3600. The increase means im futureproof for a bit.
But for gaming, its not going to be much different at higher resolutions.
Im happy for the price I paid, but for a 30% RRP increase over a current Ryzen 3600 im not sure.
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Sorry I have F&F on the US/Canada boarder.
What resolution are you playing at? Maybe GPU bound? I'm very impressed with the performance.
I certainly wouldn't bother. The 3600 is still a great chip - maybe wait a few months as we should be seeing some more interesting/better value 5000 parts then.
What resolution?
Then those performance gains are very good. You are gpu bottlenecked but still saw good cpu improvements - great cpu from amd
Thanks for the very helpful information
That's just with pbo enabled I might try to push it close to the 5ghz mark later today.
Looking forward to the results, thank you.
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I have a Ryzen 5 2600 which I upgraded from a Xeon E3 1230 V2/Core i7 3770. I play highly modded Fallout 4 too - I want to get a Ryzen 7 3700X or maybe a Zen3 based CPU at a later date. I would appreciate anymore more observations WRT to Fallout 4 on your Ryzen 5 3600 and Ryzen 5 5600X!!
But over on AT someone did a standardised test:
https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...u-draw-call-performance-in-fallout-4.2548618/
Any chance you can run that please??
I am concerned with Fallout 4 though - its CPU bottleneck at qHD for me with a GTX1080,and I was expecting Zen3 to be much better than Zen2!
A tweaked Ryzen 7 3700X for example is not faster than a tweaked Core i7 6700K in the game:
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/6700k-vs-3700x-in-23games.2567554/page-4
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Im glad these have been released now as Ill be glad when more people have these to help iron out the bugs offer some useful tweaks. im too old and lazy these days 
Im getting odd random benchmark results.
I have an ASUS x570 TUF motherboard with Ballistix 32GB 3200 ram. I updated to BIOS 2602 yesterday, its the first that supported the 5000 series (Update AM4 AGESA combo V2 PI 1.0.8.0) .
The DOCP (XMP) didnt work at all even though it did with my previous 1407 BIOS with my Ryzen 3600.
I ran a load of benchies with that anyway but my ram was running at 2666 19 20 20 20 44. I had it at 3733 with the Ryzen 3600.
I updated my BIOS again today to 2802 which had an updated Ryzen 5000 code (Update AMD AM4 AGESA V2 PI 1.1.0.0 Patch B).
The DOCP works now and detects my RAM correctly and can run at the correct 3200 16 18 18 18 38.
Ive run the same benchies and some are higher and some lower than yesterday.
Ive also now upped the RAM to 3600 16 18 18 18 38 and tinkered turning on and off some of the performance featured in the BIOS.
The results are up and down. Some favour single core, some multi core. Somw of the original 2666 RAM benchies are still the highest.
One thing i have noticed is yesterday with the 2607 BIOS the 5600 alway boosted consistantly to 4.640Ghz and to 100% core usage underload. Benching tonght its 4.540 ish, but its up and down and rarely 100%.
Like i said above, i will wait for the masses to come up with some guides and im sure there will be a solid new BIOS released like the old 1407 was for the 3000 series.
EDIT* Also forgot to mention - my temps are up in core temp - they were around 64° yesterday under load and today are upto 73°. Could that be down to BIOS?
its early days but still an awesome chip.
Im getting odd random benchmark results.
I have an ASUS x570 TUF motherboard with Ballistix 32GB 3200 ram. I updated to BIOS 2602 yesterday, its the first that supported the 5000 series (Update AM4 AGESA combo V2 PI 1.0.8.0) .
The DOCP (XMP) didnt work at all even though it did with my previous 1407 BIOS with my Ryzen 3600.
I ran a load of benchies with that anyway but my ram was running at 2666 19 20 20 20 44. I had it at 3733 with the Ryzen 3600.
I updated my BIOS again today to 2802 which had an updated Ryzen 5000 code (Update AMD AM4 AGESA V2 PI 1.1.0.0 Patch B).
The DOCP works now and detects my RAM correctly and can run at the correct 3200 16 18 18 18 38.
Ive run the same benchies and some are higher and some lower than yesterday.
Ive also now upped the RAM to 3600 16 18 18 18 38 and tinkered turning on and off some of the performance featured in the BIOS.
The results are up and down. Some favour single core, some multi core. Somw of the original 2666 RAM benchies are still the highest.
One thing i have noticed is yesterday with the 2607 BIOS the 5600 alway boosted consistantly to 4.640Ghz and to 100% core usage underload. Benching tonght its 4.540 ish, but its up and down and rarely 100%.
Like i said above, i will wait for the masses to come up with some guides and im sure there will be a solid new BIOS released like the old 1407 was for the 3000 series.
EDIT* Also forgot to mention - my temps are up in core temp - they were around 64° yesterday under load and today are upto 73°. Could that be down to BIOS?
its early days but still an awesome chip.
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