Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 9 5900 benchmarks
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900 has significantly more cores with 12 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 9 5900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. The Ryzen 9 5900 also has significantly more L3 cache.
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.
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