AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

4503 points
4985 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
6530 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
4496 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
4354 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
87.35 points

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
72% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

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

405th of 1,118
365th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 Microsoft Surface Edition. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. 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.

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