AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i3-10300

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i3-10300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600X beats the Core i3-10300 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-10300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more cores than the Core i3-10300. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-10300. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10300. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2600X. Also, the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-10300 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600X 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 2600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-10300. The Ryzen 5 2600X 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.