AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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
16% slightly better overall score
4404 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
5% slightly better gaming score
6525 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
3759 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
3630 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
57% significantly higher Blender score
86.99 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
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
15 W
533% 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
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089
400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 5 7430U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. 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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