AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i5-3570

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i5-3570 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600 beats the Core i5-3570 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3570 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 i5-3570. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3570. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3570. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 2600 and Core i5-3570 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3570 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.