AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 230.00

$ 190.07

$ 39.93 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points

8046 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points

10893 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points

7125 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points

6898 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6357 points

6614 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points

199.23 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8580 points

11709 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1738 points

2649 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8527 points

12203 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1771 points

2751 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.1 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% 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

176th of 1,089

147th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Ryzen 5 7600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600 is faster than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7600. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 7 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.