AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 777.78 significantly less expensive

$ 844.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

14% slightly better overall score

4357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

6% slightly better gaming score

6337 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

3730 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

3577 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

3688 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

90.31 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4587 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1288 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4533 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1297 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

71% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

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

300% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

405th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 5 5500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Ryzen 5 5500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.