AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i3-10300

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i3-10300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600X is faster than the Core i3-10300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-10300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10300. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1600X. The Core i3-10300 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-10300. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.