AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 129.99

$ 74.99

$ 55.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

5930 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

7967 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

5266 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

5101 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points

5451 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

141.88 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

7589 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

1833 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

7653 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

1872 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

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

389th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600XT in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600XT thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 3600XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.