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AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 3580U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X

► remove from comparison AMD R5 2600X

The AMD Ryzen 5 2600X is a high-end desktop processor with 6 cores (12 threads) that was announced early 2018. It is based on the revised Zen+ cores and at launch the second fastest Ryzen CPU behind the Ryzen 7 2700X. The CPU cores clock at 3.6 GHz base and using Precision Boost 2 up to 4.2 GHz. All 6 cores and 12 threads can clock up to 3.9 GHz. The 6 cores are divided in two cluster (3 cores each with own L3 cache) connected via Infinity Fabric.

Compared to the older first Ryzen generation (e.g., Ryzen 5 1600X), the second generation is manufactured in an improved process (12nm called), offers and improved Precision Boost 2 (especially in partial load of the cores) and faster cache and memory speeds.

See our second generation Ryzen review for detailed benchmarks and information.

AMD Ryzen 5 3580U

► remove from comparison AMD R5 3580U

The AMD Ryzen 5 3580U, a Microsoft Surface Edition chip, is a mobile SoC that was announced in October 2019 as part of the Surface Book 15. It combines four Zen+ cores (8 threads) clocked at 2.2 - 3.8 GHz with a Radeon RX Vega 9 graphics adapter with 9 CUs (576 Shaders) clocked at up to 1300 MHz. Compared to the similar Ryzen 5 3500U, the 3580 integrates a faster GPU with 9 instead of 8 CUs.

The Picasso SoCs use the Zen+ microarchitecture with slight improvements that should lead to a 3% IPS (performance per clock) improvements. Furthermore, the 12nm process allows higher clock rates at similar power consumptions.

The integrated dual-channel memory controller supports up to DDR4-2400 memory. As the features of the Picasso APUs are the same compared to the Raven Ridge predecessors, we point to our Raven Ridge launch article.

Performance

The average 3580U in our extensive database is in the same league as the Core i5-1035G7 and also the Core i7-10510U, as far as multi-thread benchmark scores are concerned. This is a fairly decent result, as of mid 2021.

Power consumption

This Ryzen 5 has a default TDP (also known as the long-term power limit) of 15 W, a value that laptop manufacturers - or should we say, Microsoft - are allowed to change to anything between 12 W and 35 W with clock speeds and performance changing correspondingly. Those values are not low enough to allow for fan-free designs, for better or worse.

The CPU is built with a fairly old, as of late 2022, 12 nm process for lower-than-average energy efficiency.

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

► remove from comparison AMD Athlon 3050U

The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U is a mobile processor for thin and light entry level laptops. It is based on the Picasso series (e.g. Ryzen 3000U APUs) and offers two Zen cores clocked at 2.3 to 3.2 GHz without SMT (two threads at once) and 4 MB of L3 Cache. The integrated graphics card is called Radeon RX Vega 2 and offers only 2 CUs (128 shaders) clocked at up to 1,100 MHz.

In Chromebooks, AMD calles the APU AMD Athlon Silver 3050C, but with the exact same specifications (and performance).

Performance

We have not tested a single system built around the 3050U, as of August 2023. Expect the chip to be just a few percentage points slower than the Athlon 3150U (two Zen cores, 4 threads, up to 3.3 GHz). This kind of performance should suffice for most day-to-day tasks but not much more than that.

Power consumption

This Athlon series chip has a default TDP of 15 W (also known as the long-term power limit). Laptop makers are free to change that to anything between 12 W and 25 W with clock speeds and peformance changing accordingly as a result. Either way, that's a tad too high to allow for passively cooled designs.

Last but not the least, the APU is built with a 14 nm process leading to poor, as of early 2023, energy efficiency.

ModelAMD Ryzen 5 2600XAMD Ryzen 5 3580UAMD Athlon Silver 3050U
SeriesAMD Ryzen 5AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
CodenameZen+Picasso-U (Zen+)Dali (Zen)
Clock3600 - 4200 MHz2100 - 3700 MHz2300 - 3200 MHz
L2 Cache4 MB2 MB1 MB
L3 Cache16 MB4 MB4 MB
Cores / Threads6 / 124 / 82 / 2
TDP95 Watt15 Watt15 Watt
Transistors4940 Million4500 Million4500 Million
Technology12 nm12 nm14 nm
Die Size209.78 mm2
SocketAM4 (1331)FP5FP5
FeaturesSSE4.2, SSE4A, AMD-V, AES, AVX2, FMA3, SHADDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHADDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
Architecturex86x86x86
$229 U.S.
Announced
Series: Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) Dali (Zen)
AMD Ryzen 7 3780U2.3 - 4 GHz4 / 8 cores4 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 3700U2.3 - 4 GHz4 / 8 cores4 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H2.1 - 3.7 GHz4 / 8 cores4 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 3500U2.1 - 3.7 GHz4 / 8 cores4 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 3450U2.1 - 3.5 GHz4 / 8 cores4 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 3580U « 2.1 - 3.7 GHz4 / 8 cores4 MB L3
AMD Athlon Gold 3150U2.4 - 3.3 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U « 2.3 - 3.2 GHz2 / 2 cores4 MB L3
L1 Cache384 KB192 KB
max. Temp.105 °C95 °C
iGPUAMD Radeon RX Vega 9 ( - 1300 MHz)AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)
Manufacturerwww.amd.comwww.amd.com

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - R5 2600X
31 pt (43%)
Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - R5 3580U
26.2 pt (36%)
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
421 Points (47%)
352 Points (39%)
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
2688 Points (7%)
1549 Points (4%)
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
1341 Points (8%)
693 Points (4%)
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
163 Points (49%)
139 Points (42%)
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
14.6 Points (19%)
7.8 Points (10%)
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
1.8 Points (45%)
1.7 Points (41%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
4958 Points (30%)
4525 Points (27%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
29954 Points (22%)
18307 Points (13%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (64bit)
48146 Points (33%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (64bit)
8272 Points (10%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
133.8 s (2%)
274.7 s (3%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
4.6 s (1%)
7.2 s (1%)
WinRAR - WinRAR 4.0
4599 Points (7%)
2924 Points (5%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multli Thread 4 runs
33222 MIPS (19%)
15209 MIPS (9%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
4293 MIPS (51%)
3572 MIPS (43%)
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 2
80.5 fps (28%)
40.1 fps (14%)
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 1
207.4 fps (48%)
135.3 fps (31%)
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 - HWBOT x265 4k Preset
8.3 fps (15%)
4.1 fps (7%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Serpent
0.8 GB/s (0%)
0.4 GB/s (0%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Twofish
1.2 GB/s (21%)
0.6 GB/s (10%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt AES
8 GB/s (21%)
3.5 GB/s (9%)
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
min: 350     avg: 352     median: 352 (2%)     max: 353.9 Seconds
710 Seconds (5%)
R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
0.6 sec (14%)
3DMark 06 - CPU - 3DMark 06 - CPU
5545 Points (12%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
11.4 s (2%)
12 s (3%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
24.8 s (1%)
27.2 s (1%)
Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
616 s (3%)
694 s (3%)
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. CPU no Physx
45760 Points (40%)
21501 Points (19%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
12074 Points (33%)
6856 Points (19%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
73430 Points (60%)
47473 Points (39%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
73424 Points (60%)
48287 Points (39%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
74442 Points (63%)
52082 Points (44%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
11855 Points (30%)
6687 Points (17%)
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
18091 Points (32%)
9805 Points (17%)
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
6530 Points (28%)
2898 Points (12%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1066     avg: 1145     median: 1144.5 (48%)     max: 1223 Points
900 Points (38%)
743 Points (31%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 5816     avg: 6094     median: 6094 (11%)     max: 6372 Points
2990 Points (5%)
1429 Points (3%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
1067 Points (5%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
5939 Points (19%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 4577     avg: 4642     median: 4641.5 (46%)     max: 4706 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 21616     avg: 22301     median: 22301 (25%)     max: 22986 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
3908 Points (53%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
11829 Points (29%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
884 ms (1%)
1243 ms (1%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
28517 Points (26%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
186 Points (39%)
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
171.7 Watt (30%)
41.1 Watt (7%)
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
164.4 Watt (30%)
40 Watt (7%)
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Efficiency - external Monitor
8.2 Points per Watt (6%)
17.3 Points per Watt (13%)

Average Benchmarks AMD Ryzen 5 2600X → 100% n=2

Average Benchmarks AMD Ryzen 5 3580U → 64% n=2

Average Benchmarks AMD Athlon Silver 3050U → 44% n=2

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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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