AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 206.07 significantly less expensive

$ 273.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

9769 points

96% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

11596 points

71% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

9145 points

106% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

8951 points

109% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points

7917 points

70% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

245.43 points

83% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

13530 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

2650 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5.1 GHz

21% 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

8 MiB

166% 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

95th 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 7 8700G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8700G 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700G has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3600. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8700G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8700G.

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.