AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 99.99
$ 201.57 significantly less expensive
$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points
11120 points
117% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
13778 points
99% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
10239 points
124% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
9995 points
126% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points
9722 points
105% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
302.05 points
120% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points
16965 points
139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points
3349 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
Identical
3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
8 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
Identical
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089
67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9700X 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9700X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 3600X and Ryzen 7 9700X have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X 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 9700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.

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