AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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
$ 240.00 significantly less expensive
$ 339.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points
6549 points
50% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points
7888 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points
6111 points
58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points
5988 points
60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points
6209 points
79% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points
185.59 points
74% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points
9081 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points
1720 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points
8236 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
1703 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.9 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.5 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
12% slightly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

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
218th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
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 2600 vs Ryzen 7 3800X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3800X beats the Ryzen 5 2600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2600. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 3800X 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 7 3800X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2600. The Ryzen 7 3800X 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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