AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Athlon 3000G. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 3000 AMD Athlon 3000
• Family
  Ryzen Athlon
• Form Factor
  Desktops / Boxed Processor Desktops / Boxed Processor
• Generation
  3 4
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 5 2600 -
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Series
  Ryzen 3000 Series Athlon 3000 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.6 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 2
• CPU Threads
  12 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  4.2 GHz -
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.2 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 3.5 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  None Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 3
• Generation
  - 8
• GPU Frequency
  - 1100 MHz
• GPU Turbo
  - No turbo
• Graphics Cores
  - 3
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2018
• Shader
  - 192
• Technology
  - 14 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon 3000G and AMD Ryzen 5 3600. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4 DDR4-2666
• PCIe
  PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  20 16
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  3200 2667

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and AMD Athlon 3000G Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Default TDP
  65 W 35 W
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 35 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and AMD Athlon 3000G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Matisse (Zen 2) Raven Ridge (Zen)
• Codename
  Matisse Picasso
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L1-Cache
  0.375 MB 0.1875 MB
• L2-Cache
  3 MB 1 MB
• L3-Cache
  32 MB 4 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  100-100000031BOX YD3000C6FHBOX
• Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
  100-100000031MPK YD3000C6FHMPK
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  100-000000031 YD3000C6M2OFH
• Operating systems
  Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
• Release date
  2019-07-07 Q4/2019
• Socket
  AM4 AM4
• Technology
  TSMC 7nm FinFET 14nm
• Thermal Solution (MPK)
  AMD Wraith Stealth -
• Thermal Solution (PIB)
  AMD Wraith Stealth -
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM