AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600U

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points
22% slightly better overall score
4180 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
22% slightly better gaming score
5656 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
22% slightly better multitasking score
3723 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score
3608 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
100.46 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5751 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points
0.44% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1605 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5709 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1617 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 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
15 W
533% significantly lower TDP

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
422nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 5 5600U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600U 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 3600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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