

However, it's hard to justify the $50 premium over the Ryzen 5 3600. The 3600X might be worth the extra coin if you aren't interested in overclocking, as it does provide more performance out of the box and comes with a better cooler. However, if you plan on using a discrete graphics card, the Ryis hands-down the best value on the market. If you need integrated graphics, the Ryand 3600X aren't for you. It really just boils down to how much noise you're willing to tolerate, but a beefy dual-radiator cooler is overkill. Given the 3600's relatively low power draw, you could top it with a much lesser cooler, like a Hyper 212 Black, and get the same benefit.

As a result, the Corsair H115i cooler extracts more performance, especially in the AVX workloads, but the deltas are slight in most areas. In fact, we noticed a few regressions with the stock cooler during overclocking, suggesting the all-aluminum cooler may get a bit overwhelmed when more voltage is put to the chip in heavily threaded workloads. In gaming, we recorded slim differences between the overclocked Rywith the stock cooler and the Corsair H115i, but that delta widens in heavily-threaded tests. In threaded apps there really is no contest again: The Ryzen 3000 processors offer far more value than Intel's competing chips, and the lack of Hyper-Threading makes this a no contest for threaded applications. The picture is a bit different when we switch over to productivity workloads.
