AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

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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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 88.73 significantly less expensive

$ 155.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

5521 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

8044 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

4773 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

4617 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points

5215 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

159.49 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

9444 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

2354 points

45% significantly 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

1% slightly higher clock speed

3.55 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8500G 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G.

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.