AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 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

$ 417.00
$ 67.00
$ 350.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2653 points
4980 points
87% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points
6742 points
59% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points
4418 points
102% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points
4279 points
104% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3397 points
4635 points
36% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points
133.67 points
152% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points
6809 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points
1560 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points
6899 points
120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points
1613 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.2 GHz
3.6 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.2 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

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

8 MiB
32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089
352nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Ryzen 5 3600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Ryzen 5 1400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1400 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1400. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 3600 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1400. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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