AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 139.00 significantly less expensive

$ 269.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

9859 points

136% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

9924 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

9836 points

190% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

9828 points

202% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

10192 points

164% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

313.97 points

265% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

11764 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

2141 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

11794 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

2200 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% 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

4.8 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

768 KiB

100% significantly 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

64 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

94th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 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

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Ryzen 9 5900X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500X. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.