AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 65.30 significantly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

8673 points

108% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

12393 points

87% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

7498 points

121% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

7245 points

122% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

7587 points

96% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

233.29 points

171% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

14957 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

3338 points

112% significantly 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

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

5.4 GHz

31% 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

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

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

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Ryzen 5 9600X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 9600X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.