AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 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

5833 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

7173 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

5387 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

5262 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

5742 points

21% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

149.13 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5783 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1419 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6073 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1481 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

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

264th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 7 4800H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800H beats the Ryzen 5 3600X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4800H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4800H. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 4800H 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 4800H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 4800H.

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.