AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
4000 MHz / Cores: 6 / Mar 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 8 / Dec 2019
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
    100%
  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
    104%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
    113%
  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
    100%
  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
    120%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

13% higher single threaded performance.

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 20% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD Ryzen 7 3700X
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost 2
XFR 2

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD Ryzen 7 3700X
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsAMD Zen 2
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZen 2vsZen 2
Release DateMar 2019vsDec 2019

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Cores6vs8
Threads12vs16
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD Ryzen 7 3700X
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs96K (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs512K (per core)
L3 Cache16MB (shared)vs32MB

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD Ryzen 7 3700X
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket AM4
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
Packagevs
Die Sizeunknownvsunknown
Process7 nmvs7 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Cpu Frequency4000 MHzvs3600 MHz
Turbo Clock4800 MHzvs4400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsvariable
TDP95 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
    5376 points
  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
    4928 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
    32793 points
  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
    39352 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X (simulated)
    225.07
  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
    199

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X (simulated)
    1750.83
  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
    2101

points - higher is better