AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i3-9300

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i3-9300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Core i3-9300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-9300 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 i3-9300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-9300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-9300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X. The Core i3-9300 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 i3-9300. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.