AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Celeron N3060

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Celeron N Series 2 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

9875 points
2464% significantly better overall score
385 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9949 points
1100% significantly better gaming score
829 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9848 points
3455% significantly better multitasking score
277 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9838 points
3598% significantly better heavy workload score
266 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points
8507% significantly higher Blender score
3.65 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
499% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
1100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
131% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
6 W
1650% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

97th of 1,124
1,118th of 1,124

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Celeron N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Celeron N3060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Celeron N3060. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N3060 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Celeron N3060 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron N3060. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N3060. The Celeron N3060 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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