AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 67.00
$ 145.99 significantly less expensive
$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
7399 points
48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
8984 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
6877 points
55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
6735 points
57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points
6914 points
49% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
207.23 points
55% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points
9632 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points
2079 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
9706 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
2147 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.6 GHz
9% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
Identical
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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