AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs AMD A10-9700

Comparative analysis of AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT and AMD A10-9700 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT

  • CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 6 vs 4
  • Around 18% higher clock speed: 4.5 GHz vs 3.8 GHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 50% more L2 cache; more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2760 vs 1613
  • 5.3x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 18658 vs 3544
Specifications (specs)
Launch date July 2020 vs 27 July 2017
Number of cores 6 vs 4
Maximum frequency 4.5 GHz vs 3.8 GHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
L2 cache 3 MB vs 2 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2760 vs 1613
PassMark - CPU mark 18658 vs 3544

Reasons to consider the AMD A10-9700

  • Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
CPU 2: AMD A10-9700

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2760
1613
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
18658
3544
Name AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT AMD A10-9700
PassMark - Single thread mark 2760 1613
PassMark - CPU mark 18658 3544
3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score 4889 0
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 493
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 1465
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 20.497
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 227.004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.928
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 87.933
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1358
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2370
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7174
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1358
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2370
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7174

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT AMD A10-9700

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen 2 Bristol Ridge
Launch date July 2020 27 July 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $250 $90
OPN PIB 100-100000281BOX AD9700AGABBOX
Place in performance rating 909 922
Vertical segment Desktop Desktop
Family AMD A-Series Processors
OPN Tray AD9700AGM44AB
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Price now $79.99
Series AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops
Value for money (0-100) 20.04

Performance

Base frequency 3.8 GHz 3.5 GHz
L2 cache 3 MB 2 MB
L3 cache 32 MB
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Maximum frequency 4.5 GHz 3.8 GHz
Number of cores 6 4
Number of threads 12
Unlocked
64 bit support
Compute Cores 10
Die size 246 mm
Maximum case temperature (TCase) 74 °C
Maximum core temperature 90°C
Number of GPU cores 6
Transistor count 1178 million

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory size 128 GB
Supported memory types DDR4-3200 DDR4
Supported memory frequency 2400 MHz

Compatibility

Sockets supported AM4 AM4
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 65 Watt
Configurable TDP 45/65 Watt
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 20 8
PCI Express revision 4.0 3.0 x8

Graphics

Enduro
Graphics max frequency 1029 MHz
iGPU core count 6
Processor graphics Radeon R7 Series
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX DirectX® 12
Vulkan

Advanced Technologies

Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC)
FreeSync
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions
PowerGating
PowerNow
PowerTune
TrueAudio
VirusProtect

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)