AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 49.49 significantly less expensive

$ 149.48

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

6416 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

8665 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

5694 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

5516 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

5539 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

139.36 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

7974 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

2039 points

22% 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

4.59 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

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

225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2024 January

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 5600GT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600GT is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600X. 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 3600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.