AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 7 1700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 1700X is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 1700X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X.

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.