AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

2% slightly better overall score

4837 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

6909 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

4216 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

4083 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

103.14 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6293 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

1663 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 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

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

361st 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 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 5 5560U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5560U is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores 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 5560U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same 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.