AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 55.74 significantly less expensive

$ 155.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

5521 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

8044 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

4773 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

4617 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

5215 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

159.49 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

9444 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

2354 points

41% 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

7% slightly higher clock speed

3.55 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5 GHz

13% 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

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

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 8000 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

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores 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 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G 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, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.