AMD Ryzen 5 3600 review gets published early and shows impressive gains

Spanish tech site El Chapuzas Informático has posted credible rumors and leaks in the past so the site's early review of the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 is definitely something to pay attention to. TechPowerUp offers a brief, translated version over here and notes that AMD's third-gen Ryzen CPUs seem to offer impressive performance gains. In these early tests, the Ryzen 5 3600 seems slightly faster than the Ryzen 7 2700X:

While not quite on par with the Intel Core i9-9900K in gaming tests, it does get quite close and typically beats the Ryzen 7 2700X. While the margins of victory are not staggering, it's still good to see as it does show an improvement since the Ryzen 5 3600 does have a lower clock speed and fewer cores and threads compared to the previous generation. If these chips are decent overclockers, they may prove quite interesting for mid-range gaming builds since they Ryzen 5 3600 has an MSRP of $199.