New budget king in town? Leaked benchmark claims Ryzen 5 3600 better than Core i9-9900K

AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series processors are less than a week away from the official July 7 launch date. But the semiconductor manufacturer has found it close to impossible to keep a lid on the performance details as new benchmarks pop-up every day.

And, while most leaked performance benchmarks are particularly exciting because of the quoted over-the-top performance, this one is of importance as it deals with one of the Ryzen chips.

The latest leaks come from official CPUBenchmark.net database. The leak suggests that the Ryzen 5 3600 outclasses most Intel 9^th Gen CPUs in single-threaded performance including Intel’s 5GHz Core i9-9900K, which is an absolute beast.

When you compare pricing, the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 will likely debut in India in the under the Rs 20,000 price range, while the Core i9-9900K starts at Rs 40,000 in Indian markets.

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The single-threaded benchmarks put the performance of the Ryzen 5 3600 above Intel’s 8-core, 16-thread Core i9-9900K and 8-core, 8-thread Core i7-9700K. The Ryzen 5 3600 earned a total score of 2,979, while its price equivalent Intel Core i5-9600K scored 2,681 points, a substantial performance difference.

The Ryzen 5 chip also does reasonably well in multi-threaded benchmarks, going toe-to-toe with Intel’s big hitters. While we aren’t sure of the results on these CPUMark tests indicate overclocked runs, it cannot be ruled out. However, no 3^rd generation Ryzen chip is listed on Passmark’s “Overclocked CPU” performance leaderboard.

While the benchmark numbers are for the new Ryzen 5 3600 are quite exciting, they simply cannot be confirmed until the chip is launched on July 7. But still, seeing an AMD CPU outperforming an Intel processor in single-threaded performance, even if it is just a rumour, is quite exciting, and shows you how far the Ryzen series has come since its introduction in 2017.