AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Price

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$ 129.99

$ 714.79 significantly less expensive

$ 844.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

3% slightly better overall score

4357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

6337 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

3730 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

3577 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points

32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

3688 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

90.31 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4587 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1288 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4533 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1297 points

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

80% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% 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

300% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089

405th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Ryzen 5 5500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600XT is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500U 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 3600XT 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 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.