Ryzen 5 3600 vs Pentium III 866

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium III 866 and Ryzen 5 3600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated702
Place by popularitynot in top-1008
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data22.82
Market segmentDesktop processorDesktop processor
Seriesno dataAMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiencyno data16.26
Architecture codenameCoppermine T (2000)Matisse (2019−2020)
Release date20 March 2000 (24 years ago)7 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium III 866 and Ryzen 5 3600 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads112
Base clock speedno data3.6 GHz
Boost clock speed0.87 GHz4.2 GHz
L1 cache32 KB96K (per core)
L2 cache256 KB512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB32 MB (shared)
Chip lithography180 nm7 nm, 12 nm
Die size106 mm2no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)80 °Cno data
Number of transistors28 million4,800 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplier-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium III 866 and Ryzen 5 3600 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration21 (Uniprocessor)
Socket370AM4
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium III 866 and Ryzen 5 3600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium III 866 and Ryzen 5 3600 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium III 866 and Ryzen 5 3600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data51.196 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 March 2000 7 July 2019
Physical cores 1 6
Threads 1 12
Chip lithography 180 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 65 Watt

Pentium III 866 has 140.7% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 3600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 19 years, 500% more physical cores and 1100% more threads, and a 2471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Pentium III 866 and Ryzen 5 3600. We've got no test results to judge.


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