AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 230.00 significantly less expensive

$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

6994 points

36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

8202 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

6575 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

6440 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

6750 points

42% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

187.18 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

10106 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

1922 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.58 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

96 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089

194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 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

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.