AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme beats the Ryzen 5 3600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

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.