Here at the FPSReview, we’ve covered AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series in depth. We’ve talked about the various models at each price point. You would almost think that would be the end of it, but each model will perform differently and given a certain price point, compare either more or less favorably to its competition. As a result, we will take a look at specific models in more detail and provide data for comparison to our previous coverage. Today, we are looking at AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600X. However, if you’ve seen our coverage of earlier models, then much of this is going to come across to you as being a re-hash of earlier articles. In which case, you can skip around as needed to look at the performance metrics and conclusion page.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, frozen in a vault, from a parallel universe or simply just got into DIY computing, you’ve probably heard who AMD is. The company was established 50 years ago and in the early days made a name for itself in memory manufacturing. In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s AMD was a second source supplier of Intel CPU designs.