AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs AMD A6-3600

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
4000 MHz / Cores: 6 / Mar 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
AMD A6-3600
AMD Socket FM1DESKTOP
2100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2011
AMD A6-3600

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

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

Reasons to consider AMD A6-3600

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

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD A6-3600
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
3DNow!
CnQ
NX bit
Turbo Core

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD A6-3600
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsAMD LLano
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameZen 2vsLlano
Release DateMar 2019vsJun 2011

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD A6-3600
Cores6vs4
Threads12vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsRadeon HD 6530D

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD A6-3600
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs1024 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16MB (shared)vs0 KB

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD A6-3600
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket FM1
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackagevsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs228mm²
Process7 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XAMD A6-3600
Cpu Frequency4000 MHzvs2100 MHz
Turbo Clock4800 MHzvs2400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevs1.4125 V
TDP95 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
    5376 points
  • AMD A6-3600
    2400 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
    32793 points
  • AMD A6-3600
    8400 points

Points - higher is better