AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Pentium G3420

AMD Ryzen 5 3600
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 6 / Mar 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Intel Pentium G3420
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2013
Intel Pentium G3420

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    412%
  • Intel Pentium G3420
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    158%
  • Intel Pentium G3420
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    666%
  • Intel Pentium G3420
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Much higher single threaded performance (around 58% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 566% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 312% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium G3420

Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Ryzen 5 3600.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3600

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Pentium G3420
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
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
CLMUL

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Pentium G3420
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_Haswell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameZen 2vsHaswell
Release DateMar 2019vsSep 2013

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Pentium G3420
Cores6vs2
Threads12vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD (Haswell)

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Pentium G3420
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16MB (shared)vs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Pentium G3420
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1150
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackagevsFC-LGA12C
Die Sizeunknownvs177mm²
Process7 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Pentium G3420
Cpu Frequency3600 MHzvs3200 MHz
Turbo Clock4400 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP65 Wvs54 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    4928 points
  • Intel Pentium G3420
    3584 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    29514 points
  • Intel Pentium G3420
    7168 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (simulated)
    206.31
  • Intel Pentium G3420 (simulated)
    129.78

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (simulated)
    1575.75
  • Intel Pentium G3420 (simulated)
    236.57

points - higher is better