AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Celeron G5905

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Celeron G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 67.00
$ 6.97 slightly less expensive
$ 73.97

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4982 points
242% significantly better overall score
1456 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6743 points
111% significantly better gaming score
3182 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4421 points
325% significantly better multitasking score
1038 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4282 points
329% significantly better heavy workload score
996 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
623% significantly higher Blender score
18.47 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
446% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1263 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
738 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
499% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
58 W
12% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

364th of 1,114
837th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 3600 vs Celeron G5905 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the Celeron G5905. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G5905 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Celeron G5905 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G5905. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron G5905. The Celeron G5905 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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