AMD Ryzen 5 5500 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 47.68GB/s)
Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 's Advantages
Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)
Higher base frequency (3.8GHz vs 3.6GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (32MB vs 16MB)