AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Core i5-11600K

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Core i5-11600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11600K performs better than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3450U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-11600K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3450U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3450U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3450U. A Ryzen 5 3450U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3450U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600K. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U.

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 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.