AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.99
$ 11.00 slightly less expensive
$ 140.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
6140 points
36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
8293 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
5448 points
37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
5276 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points
5522 points
12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
146.73 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points
7577 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points
1885 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points
7674 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points
1931 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
3.9 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 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
243rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Ryzen 5 5600G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Ryzen 5 3600XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600XT in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600G 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.

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.

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