AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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
$ 65.31 significantly less expensive
$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
8673 points
92% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
12393 points
99% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
7498 points
88% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
7245 points
88% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points
7587 points
55% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
233.29 points
67% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points
14957 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points
3338 points
93% significantly 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
5.4 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

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
480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
Identical
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089
118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 9600X 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600X 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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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