AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 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
2% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
5% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
4354 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
87.35 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
72% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
Identical
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
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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
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

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 significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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.

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