Review: AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT

Conclusion

The Ryzen 5 3600XT is the cheapest entry into AMD's summer 2020 refresh of select mainstream chips. Offering a few extra percent of performance through higher frequencies over and above the regular X model that's been a firm fan favourite for a year, AMD's latest strain of CPU silicon also has better overclocking headroom, too.

Arriving at the £240 retail price as rival Intel Core i5-10600K and this time shipping with the same Wraith Spire v2 cooler, there's a little more to like about this chip than the 3900XT and 3800XT, particularly if you're partial to all-core overclocking; our sample scaled to 4.5GHz with relative ease.

Yet the same refrains remain. Price cutting on the regular 3600X, which is down to £205, puts value into the spotlight, so whilst nobody will disagree the 3600XT is the better chip out of the two, is it really £35 better? We think not.

It's with this thinking that we cannot outright recommend the Ryzen 5 3600XT unless you're able to get a stonking deal on it. A good chip that, like the 3900XT and 3800XT, is a victim of AMD's recent successes.

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