Intel Core i7-3770K vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Core i7-3770K vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X beats the Core i7-3770K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-3770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3770K. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600X outputs less heat than Core i7-3770K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.