AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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
$ 247.49 significantly less expensive
$ 314.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
13554 points
172% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
13457 points
99% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
13583 points
207% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
13587 points
217% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points
12798 points
176% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
412.82 points
208% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points
17426 points
155% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points
2844 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
17750 points
157% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
2946 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.6 GHz
33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
161% significantly lower TDP
170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
12 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
36th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 9 7900X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X 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 9 7900X has significantly more cores with 12 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 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3600. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. The Ryzen 9 7900X 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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