AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 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

$ 99.99
$ 30.01 significantly less expensive
$ 130.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points
4% slightly better overall score
4161 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points
6597 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
3390 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
3252 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points
3860 points
11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
85.91 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points
5905 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points
1536 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points
5889 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
1572 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.1 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

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

404th of 1,089
423rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Ryzen 5 3500X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2600 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2600. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 3500X 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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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