All AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs Will Feature Soldered IHS, Expect Impressive Thermals & Great Overclocking Capability
AMD has confirmed that all of their upcoming
3rd Gen Ryzen 3000 series processors featuring the Zen 2 core architecture will feature a soldered design. Since the launch of their 1st generation, the Ryzen series has been utilizing a soldered design which helps deliver better thermal results when compared to traditional TIM application.
AMD Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs To Utilize Soldered IHS With Gold Plating To Deliver Better Thermals & Overclocking Results
AMD has so far used solder on all of their
Ryzen CPUs, Ryzen Theadripper CPUs and the upcoming
Ryzen ‘Picasso’ APUs are also confirmed to feature Soldered IHS. Continuing the tradition, AMD will also feature solder IHS on their upcoming Ryzen 3000 series processors which are based on the Zen 2 core and supported by the X570 platform. This was confirmed by AMD’s Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Robert Hallock
Wonderful confirmation: no short cuts to deliver those prices.
I took the time to look over the Single Core scores in more depth for the stock frequency R5-3600 from that leak
@PEB posted above as covered by WCCF Tech. They also covered a few other leaked benchmarks in addition to the Ciphell forum one (Geekbench and UserBenchmark). The WCCFTech headline covering that video insisting it is crushing Coffee Lake in IPC is garbage clickbait. I don't know where they are pulling the "average" 8700k single core score of 5,400. Being more objective:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6 Core CPU Benchmarks Leak Out, Knocks Out Intel’s i7-8700K At Price/Perf – Higher IPC Than Intel Coffee Lake, 6% Faster in PUBG
Here is the leaderboard:
https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks
R5-3600 is 3.6 GHz base clock with 4.2 GHz turbo.
i7-6700K is 4.0 GHz base clock with 4.2 GHz turbo.
The latter would seem to be the near perfect analogue, and the R5-3600 is beating it, but only by about 1%, and that is the Skylake i7 which is 2 1/2 generations back (i7-7700 = Kaby Lake, i7-8700k= Coffee Lake, i7-9700K = Coffee Lake refresh). It's still a massive gain, considering the R7-2700X scores a 4,802, the R7-1800X scores a 4,275, and those are the
flagships from the respective 2nd/1st gens, not the baseline R5. Comparing its predecessors within those lines, the R5-2600 scores a 4,365, and the R5-1600 scores a 3,928. Given, they have lower turbo frequencies, but ignoring IPC, and looking at practical real-world improvement, that is an
astonishing leap forward. That's a gain of 23% and 37%, respectively, in terms of factory-clocked single core performance.
They really went full ham-schill with the analysis on the IPC from Userbenchmark; a user determined the R5-3600 is 7% superior to the i7-7700K in IPC, and from this they conclude it will also beat Coffee Lake and Coffee Lake R in IPC because those were built "on the same architecture".
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-3600-vs-Intel-Core-i7-7700K/m810675vs3647
I don't know why they're working so hard to complicate that analysis, but from those two benchmarks, it looks like we can expect the R5-3600 to average over 130 when at its proper 4.2 GHz turbo.
Cliffs: Don't expect the R9-3800X to practically outperform the i7-9700k or i9-9900k in games. Disregarding IPC, it will be just slightly inferior in terms of single core performance. I expect it to trail by 3%-5%.