New vs. Original AMD Ryzen 5 3600: Silicon Quality Comparison (2020 vs. 2019)

A lot of our viewers asked us to look into new AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPUs from 2020 vs. the review samples from 2019, primarily for verifying silicon quality & overclock improvement claims online.
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Silicon quality typically improves over time, just like any other manufacturing quality or yield would, and that normally manifests itself in the form of higher overclocking capabilities on later-launched CPUs. This also means that you can typically run the same clocks at lower voltages on newer silicon, but not always. Just being newer, especially if it's only been a year, doesn't guarantee that the silicon is better. It's still a silicon lottery situation, and that means that it's still possible to get bad silicon just like it was at launch. Similarly, it was possible at launch to get good silicon, so what really changes is the probability of a good chip. Hopefully, that's improved, but a sample size of one each doesn't allow any firm conclusions. We're still looking into the highest frequencies at the lowest voltages possible on each chip, the stock performance (just in case), and the gaming overclock results of the new AMD R5 3600 vs. Old AMD R5 3600. Charts also include other CPUs, like the AMD R9 3900X, AMD R7 3700X, Intel i5-10600K, Intel i9-10900K, et al., but we're only focusing on talking about the new vs. old 3600 results today.

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AMD R9 3900X on Amazon: https://geni.us/31e4Wc

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - New vs. Old AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPUs
03:00 - Reading Date Codes on AMD CPUs
04:26 - Volt/Frequency Initial Testing
07:18 - Per-CCX/Core Overclocking Attempts (New vs. Old 3600)
08:38 - Temperature Comparison (Tdie) Overclocked on Old vs. New
10:51 - Max Single-Thread Boost on R5 3600 Review vs. New Retail
11:57 - Max All-Core (AVG) Frequency on New 3600 vs. Old 3600
12:48 - Tomb Raider Game Benchmarks 4.4GHz vs. 4.3GHz & Stock
13:37 - Hitman 2 Old vs. New Frequency Results
14:25 - F1 2019 1080p & 1440p R5 3600 CPU Benchmarks
15:12 - Red Dead Redemption 2 CPU Benchmarks (High)
16:05 - Conclusions

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Editorial, Testing: Steve Burke
Testing: Patrick Lathan
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