AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

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 5 3600X

AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5167 points

5427 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7003 points

7307 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4585 points

4865 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4442 points

4745 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

159.68 points

16% slightly higher Blender 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

18% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

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

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

344th of 1,114

312th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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 6800HS Creator Edition benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X that 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition 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 6800HS Creator Edition.

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.