AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Microsoft Surface Edition. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.