Intel Pentium B970 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
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CPU comparison with benchmarks
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CPU comparisonIntel Pentium B970 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.
The Intel Pentium B970 has 2 cores with 2 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.30 GHz. Up to 16 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium B970 was released in Q1/2012. The AMD Ryzen 5 3600X has 6 cores with 12 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.40 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 3600X was released in Q3/2019. |
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| Intel Pentium (150) | Family | AMD Ryzen 5 (84) |
| Intel Pentium 900 (10) | CPU group | AMD Ryzen 3000 (15) |
| 3 | Generation | 3 |
| Sandy Bridge U | Architecture | Matisse (Zen 2) |
| Mobile | Segment | Desktop / Server |
| -- | Predecessor | AMD Ryzen 5 2600X |
| -- | Successor | AMD Ryzen 5 5600X |
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CPU Cores and Base FrequencyThe Intel Pentium B970 is a 2 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.30 GHz. The AMD Ryzen 5 3600X has 6 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.80 GHz (4.40 GHz). |
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| Intel Pentium B970 | Characteristic | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
| 2 | Cores | 6 |
| 2 | Threads | 12 |
| normal | Core architecture | normal |
| No | Hyperthreading | Yes |
| No | Overclocking ? | Yes |
| 2.30 GHz | Frequency | 3.80 GHz |
| -- | Turbo Frequency (1 Core) | 4.40 GHz |
| -- | Turbo Frequency (All Cores) | 4.20 GHz |
Internal GraphicsThe integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs. |
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| Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) | GPU | no iGPU |
| 0.65 GHz | GPU frequency | -- |
| 1.15 GHz | GPU (Turbo) | -- |
| 6 | GPU Generation | -- |
| 32 nm | Technology | |
| 2 | Max. displays | |
| 6 | Compute units | -- |
| 48 | Shader | -- |
| No | Hardware Raytracing | No |
| No | Frame Generation | No |
| 2 GB | Max. GPU Memory | -- |
| 10.1 | DirectX Version | -- |
Hardware codec supportA photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos. |
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| Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) | GPU | no iGPU |
| No | Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | No |
| No | Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | No |
| Decode / Encode | Codec h264 | No |
| No | Codec VP9 | No |
| No | Codec VP8 | No |
| No | Codec AV1 | No |
| Decode / Encode | Codec AVC | No |
| Decode | Codec VC-1 | No |
| No | Codec JPEG | No |
Memory & PCIeThe Intel Pentium B970 supports a maximum of 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 3600X can connect up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. |
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| Intel Pentium B970 | Characteristic | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
| DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333 | Memory | DDR4-3200 |
| 16 GB | Max. Memory | 128 GB |
| 2 (Dual Channel) | Memory channels | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| 21.3 GB/s | Max. Bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s |
| No | ECC | Yes |
| -- | L2 Cache | -- |
| 2.00 MB | L3 Cache | 32.00 MB |
| 2.0 | PCIe version | 4.0 |
| 16 | PCIe lanes | 20 |
| 8.0 GB/s | PCIe Bandwidth | 39.4 GB/s |
Thermal ManagementThe TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Pentium B970 has a TDP of 35 W, that of the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X is 95 W. |
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| Intel Pentium B970 | Characteristic | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
| 35 W | TDP (PL1 / PBP) | 95 W |
| -- | TDP (PL2) | -- |
| -- | TDP up | -- |
| -- | TDP down | -- |
| 85 °C | Tjunction max. | 95 °C |
Technical detailsThe Intel Pentium B970 has a 2.00 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X cache has a total of 32.00 MB. |
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| Intel Pentium B970 | Characteristic | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
| 32 nm | Technology | 7 nm |
| Monolithic | Chip design | Chiplet |
| x86-64 (64 bit) | Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| SSE4.1, SSE4.2 | ISA extensions | SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 |
| PGA 988 | Socket | AM4 (PGA 1331) |
| VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d | Virtualization | AMD-V, SVM |
| Yes | AES-NI | Yes |
| Windows 10, Linux | Operating systems | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux |
| Q1/2012 | Release date | Q3/2019 |
| -- | Release price | 215 $ |
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Average performance in benchmarks
⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)
The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)
The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
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Intel Pentium B970
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) @ 1.15 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
@ 0.00 GHz |
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Blender 3.1 Benchmark
In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)
The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)
The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Intel Pentium B970
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Devices using this processor |
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| Intel Pentium B970 | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
| Unknown | dercomputerladen PC mit Ryzen 5 3600X Memory Gaming PC mit Ryzen 5 3600X |
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