AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

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

11% slightly better overall score

4604 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

9% slightly better gaming score

6298 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

4083 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

3956 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

104.53 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5620 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1634 points

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

89% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

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

380th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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 7530U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600X beats the Ryzen 5 7530U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7530U 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 7530U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. 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.