AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD FX-6300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-6300

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 50.00

$ 17.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

176% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

124% significantly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

206% significantly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

209% significantly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points

120% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

2098 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

362% significantly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points

357% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

230% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

383% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

255% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

288 KiB

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

300% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs FX-6300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 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 FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-6300. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6300.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.