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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by Causality1 on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:57PM (#23224993)
Native gaming isn't particularly cpu-bound these days. I wish I could take the overall performance of a 3700 and divide it between four cores instead of eight. IPC is king when it comes to game console emulation.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by mywittyname on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:09PM (#23225207)
That same review has an overclocked i5-9600K vs a stock one and the performance difference is pretty large. An i5-9600K @ 5.0 is almost as significant of an improvement over a stock one as a stock i5-9600K is over the lowest performing CPU of the bunch.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by Causality1 on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:38PM (#23227378)
What percentage of 9600Ks can hit that OC and keep stable under load?
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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by blattimwind on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:24PM (#23229966)
~90 %
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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by Yizahi on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:30PM (#23225519)
Bulldozer series were that - 4,6,8 normal cores which could have been glued in pairs to make double wide cores (this also produced a metric ton of comments and articles how FX series "weren't really 8 (6,4) cores"). CPUs were good enough but apparently this architecture was hard to utilize fully (and had other issues, e.g. with IPC).
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