AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Pentium Gold G5600

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 6 / Sep 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
Intel Pentium Gold G5600
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3900 MHz / Cores: 2 / Apr 2018
Intel Pentium Gold G5600

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium Gold G5600

Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Ryzen 5 3500X.

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 3500XIntel Pentium Gold G5600
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
Precision Boost 2
XFR 2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
Boost 2.0
HT

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 3500XIntel Pentium Gold G5600
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_Coffelake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-3200 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR4
CodenameMatissevsCoffee Lake
Release DateSep 2019vsApr 2018

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 3500XIntel Pentium Gold G5600
Cores6vs2
Threads6vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsUHD Graphics 630

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 3500XIntel Pentium Gold G5600
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache32MB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 3500XIntel Pentium Gold G5600
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Temp95°Cvs72°C
PackageµOPGA-1331vsFC-LGA1151
Die Size74mm²vsunknown
Process7 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 3500XIntel Pentium Gold G5600
Cpu Frequency3600 MHzvs3900 MHz
Turbo Clock4100 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP65 Wvs51 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
    4592 points
  • Intel Pentium Gold G5600
    4680 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
    24192 points
  • Intel Pentium Gold G5600
    11232 points

Points - higher is better