Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600H — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The AMD Ryzen 5 5600H leads on 3 of 4 shared benchmarks (9% in Cinebench R23 single); the Ryzen 5 3600 takes 1 (8% in PassMark CPU Mark).

Side-by-side CPU comparison of the Ryzen 5 3600 and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600H. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

AMD

Ryzen 5 3600

6 cores65W TDP

Full Ryzen 5 3600 benchmarks →

AMD · Zen 3

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H

6 cores45W TDP2021

Full AMD Ryzen 5 5600H benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	Ryzen 5 3600	AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
cores	6	6
threads	12	12
base clock ghz	3.6	3.3
boost clock ghz	4.2	4.2
tdp w	65	45
memory bus	Dual-channel	—
l2 cache mb	—	3
l3 cache mb	32	16
process nm	7	7
socket	AMD Socket AM4	FP6

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Notebookcheck, Tom's Hardware, CGDirector, CPU-Monkey, technical.city, Puget Systems, HardwareDB, Geekbench Browser, GadgetVersus and PassMark; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	Ryzen 5 3600	AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
Cinebench R15 multi (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	1,573 points
Cinebench R15 single (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	220 points
Cinebench R20 multi (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	3,656 points
Cinebench R20 single (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	529 points
Cinebench R23 multi (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, Tom's Hardware, CGDirector, CPU-Monkey	9,073 points	9,466 points
Cinebench R23 single (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, Tom's Hardware, CGDirector, CPU-Monkey	1,245 points	1,363 points
Geekbench 5 multi (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	6,505 points
Geekbench 5 single (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	1,374 points
Geekbench 6 multi (higher is better) Source: technical.city, Puget Systems, HardwareDB, Geekbench Browser, GadgetVersus, CPU-Monkey	7,067 points	6,596 points
Geekbench 6 single (higher is better) Source: technical.city, Puget Systems, HardwareDB, Geekbench Browser, GadgetVersus, CPU-Monkey	1,532 points	1,729 points
PassMark CPU Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	17,660 points	16,423 points
PassMark CPU Mark single thread (higher is better) Source: PassMark	—	2,869 points

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.