AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

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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Price

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$ 99.99
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$ 224.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points
6412 points
25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
8715 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
5670 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
5489 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points
5675 points
19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
155.16 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points
8541 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points
2046 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points
8665 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points
2110 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

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

2
Identical
2

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

336th of 1,089
226th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 5 5600X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600X 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 and 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.

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