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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