AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT

Price

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$ 229.08

$ 119.92 significantly less expensive

$ 349.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

51 %

54 %

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

70 %

77 %

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

45 %

47 %

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

44 %

45 %

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7119

7274

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.63

159.85

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958

7102

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612

1673

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958

7102

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612

1673

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

Identical

3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 1,240

159th of 1,240

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

July 2019

July 2020

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 5 3600XT benchmarks

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

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 5 3600X and Ryzen 5 3600XT have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.