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When we think of a high performance CPU these days,
it's all about the processing cores.
I mean sure, 5.3 gigahertz is more than five 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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It's because it's the best bang for the buck.
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The Ryzen 5 3600 is currently the number one
bestseller on amazon.com with third gen Ryzen in general,
making up seven of the top 10,
which is just an unbelievable coup for AMD.
It's a similar story on Newegg with third 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 rising 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 II 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 cores
for roughly the same price.
I mean sure, early software struggled
to take advantage of the new cores
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 GlobalFoundries,
AMD 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 Ryzen CPU,
couldn't always find one on the shelf
due to product shortages.
Unlike lttstore.com where you never even see a shelf
cause it's online.
With today's third gen rises 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 are 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 I/O
to a separate die all together,
allowing AMD to essentially just produce one type
of small CCD and then thanks to the magic of binning,
bundled 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 thread ripper.
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 multithreading capable cores
and with 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 wanna over clock, 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 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 fourth 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
impressed 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 Gamers Nexus
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 $100 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-rounder,
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 just great value.
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Thanks for watching guys.
If you enjoyed this video, hey maybe go check out
our most recent "Why's everyone buying this?",
where we focused on TVs and the manufacturing challenges
that they face to bring costs down.