AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 2700U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 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
114% significantly better overall score
2327 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
84% significantly better gaming score
3661 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
128% significantly better multitasking score
1930 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
130% significantly better heavy workload score
1854 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
195% significantly higher Blender score
45.25 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points
182% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2409 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
794 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
188% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2392 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
792 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
63% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
653rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 7 2700U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Ryzen 7 2700U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 2700U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 2700U. The Ryzen 5 3600 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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