AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 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
$ 55.00 significantly less expensive
$ 184.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
7430 points
65% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
8722 points
40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
7004 points
76% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
6877 points
78% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points
6694 points
36% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
196.94 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points
8659 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points
1948 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points
8946 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points
2013 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
Identical
3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
4.6 GHz
2% 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
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

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
168th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 7 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 7 5700G comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700G 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700G has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600XT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Both the Ryzen 5 3600XT and Ryzen 7 5700G have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700G 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 5700G.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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