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

$ 459.00
$ 308.74
$ 150.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

52 %
65 %
25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

73 %
80 %
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

46 %
60 %
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

44 %
59 %
34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7274
10150
39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.85
211.30
32% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

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

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

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

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7197
8643
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1680
1953
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

128th of 627
74th of 627

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

July 2020
April 2021

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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