AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

11380 points

122% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

10581 points

53% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

11723 points

157% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

11982 points

171% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

15023 points

217% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

538.07 points

293% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

55 W

72% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1280 KiB

233% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

16 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

64 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089

61st 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

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Ryzen 9 9955HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600X. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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.