AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 3 1300X

AMD Ryzen 5 2600
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 6 / Mar 2018
AMD Ryzen 5 2600
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2017
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    185%
  • AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    114%
  • AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    257%
  • AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 2600

14% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 157% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 85% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 3 1300X

None

AMD Ryzen 5 2600

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 2600

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 2600

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 2600AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
XFR

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 2600AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsAMD Zen
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsZen
Release DateMar 2018vsJun 2017

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 2600AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
Cores6vs4
Threads12vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 2600AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
L1 Cache96 KB (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs512 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 2600AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket AM4
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvsuPGA
Die Size192mm²vs192mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 2600AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
Cpu Frequency3400 MHzvs3400 MHz
Turbo Clock3900 MHzvs3700 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    4290 points
  • AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
    4070 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    27376 points
  • AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
    14960 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (simulated)
    161.51
  • AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
    141

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (simulated)
    1325.06
  • AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
    515

points - higher is better