Comparison of AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Attribute	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X ×	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD Ryzen	AMD Ryzen
Model	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X	AMD Ryzen 5 3600
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	6	6
Frequency (GHz)	3.7	3.6
CPU Threads	12	12
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.6	4.2
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	4.2	4
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Max. Memory (GB)	128	128
PCIe lanes	20	20
PCIe version	4.0	4.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2020	2019
Technology (Nm)	7	7
Socket	AM4	AM4
Virtualization	amd-v sev	amd-v sev
L3-Cache (MB)	32	32
L2-Cache (MB)	3	-
Architecture	Vermeer (Zen 3)	Zen 2
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	95	95
TDP (PL1) (W)	65	65
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	22,180	17,877
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,572	1,183
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	8,420	6,821
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	258	197
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,970	1,578
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	604	472
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	4,562	3,689
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	-	235.7
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)	1,572	1,253
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)	11,268	9,412