AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

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
5130 points
0.21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
0.66% slightly better gaming score
6861 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
4572 points
0.37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
4437 points
0.50% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
122.31 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5529 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1405 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5586 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1401 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
111% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 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
15 W
533% 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
334th 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
No

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 7 4800U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800U 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 4800U 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 4800U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 4800U 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 7 4800U has slightly 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 7 4800U.

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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