AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 9 5900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600X. The Ryzen 9 5900X also has significantly more 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.