AMD Athlon 3000G vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Athlon Desktop 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 69.99
$ 125.31 significantly less expensive
$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1477 points
8673 points
487% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2742 points
12393 points
351% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1135 points
7498 points
560% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1095 points
7245 points
561% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.38 points
233.29 points
643% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1970 points
14957 points
659% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

956 points
3338 points
249% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.9 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
85% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
480 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
6 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
32 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

813th of 1,089
118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Athlon Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Athlon 3000G vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Athlon 3000G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon 3000G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Athlon 3000G that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon 3000G. A Athlon 3000G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 9600X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon 3000G. The Ryzen 5 9600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Athlon 3000G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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