AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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.