AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 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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AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Price

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$ 109.25

$ 20.75 slightly less expensive

$ 130.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points

6% slightly better overall score

4161 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points

6597 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

3390 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

3252 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3662 points

3860 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

85.91 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points

5905 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points

1536 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points

5889 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points

1572 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

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

397th 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

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Ryzen 5 3500X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600X beats the Ryzen 5 3500X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 2600X has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 5 3500X are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 3500X outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.