AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Linux Performance

A focused Linux gaming performance comparison between processors will be in its own article up shortly looking at various Steam Play games and more. But when firing up various OpenGL native Linux open-source games, the AMD Zen 2 CPUs were delivering better performance than the tested Intel Coffeelake processors.

With the brand new Blender 2.80 release, the Ryzen 3000 series performance is strong with more cores/threads compared to Intel's offerings. The Ryzen 5 3600X wasn't too far behind the previous top-end Ryzen 7 2700X processor.

The AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors were delivering comparable performance to Intel Coffeelake CPUs tested with the GIMP image manipulation program.

Appleseed is a newer test profile added to the Phoronix Test Suite for stressing this Blender rendering alternative. The Ryzen 5 3600X performance was coming in line with expectations considering the core/thread counts.