AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 120.00
$ 97.99
$ 22.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points
4307 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
8% slightly better gaming score
5864 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
3810 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
3690 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5061 points
45% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
3469 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
104.40 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4930 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1138 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4754 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1136 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
576 KiB
125% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
409th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Ryzen 5 1600X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600X is faster than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3300X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3300X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1600X. A Ryzen 3 3300X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 1600X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3300X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 Ryzen 3 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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