AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Compare AMD 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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$ 130.00

$ 67.00

$ 63.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

4980 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

6742 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

4418 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

4279 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

4635 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

133.67 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

6809 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

1560 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

6899 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

1613 points

2% 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

4.1 GHz

4.2 GHz

2% 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

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

352nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Ryzen 5 3600 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 3500X and Ryzen 5 3600 have the same clock speed. Despite this, 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.