AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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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AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Price

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$ 97.99

$ 67.00

$ 30.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

4980 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

6742 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

4418 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

4279 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3469 points

4635 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

133.67 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

6809 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

1560 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

6899 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

1613 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089

352nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Ryzen 5 3600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 1600X and Ryzen 5 3600 have the same clock speed. The Ryzen 5 3600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 3600 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 Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.