AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i5-10600KF

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-10600KF

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 39.99 significantly less expensive

$ 169.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

5658 points

35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

7822 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

4969 points

46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

4811 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

5399 points

39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

129.51 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

6687 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

1609 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

6783 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

1685 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

4.1 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.8 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

280th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i5-10600KF specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10600KF performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-10600KF has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X. Also, the Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-10600KF 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 3500X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600KF. The Ryzen 5 3500X 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.