AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 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

4981 points
7529 points
51% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6743 points
10085 points
49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4420 points
6700 points
51% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4281 points
6484 points
51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
199.09 points
48% significantly 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
4.00 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

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
96 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

356th of 1,096
169th of 1,096

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. The Ryzen 5 7500X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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