AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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 5500

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 74.99

$ 25.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

5930 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

7967 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

5266 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

5101 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

5451 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

141.88 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points

7589 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points

1833 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

7653 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

1872 points

12% 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

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2022 April

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 5500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 3600X 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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.