AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i3-3220

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i3-3220 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600 beats the Core i3-3220 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3220 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3220. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3220. It also has more threads than the Core i3-3220. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3220. The Core i3-3220 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600 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 Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.