AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4982 points
5696 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6743 points
7862 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4421 points
4989 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4282 points
4822 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
144.95 points
8% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 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
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
96 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

364th of 1,114
288th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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