AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

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 5600X

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 94.25 significantly less expensive

$ 224.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

6410 points

54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

8714 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

5668 points

67% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

5487 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

5675 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

155.16 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

8541 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

2046 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

8665 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

2110 points

34% 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

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.6 GHz

12% 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

226th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Ryzen 5 5600X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600X beats the Ryzen 5 3500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.