AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 130.00
$ 120.99
$ 9.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points
4307 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
6905 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
3493 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
3351 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points
4121 points
6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
89.16 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5426 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1483 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5747 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points
1581 points
0.57% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
Identical
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
4.3 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 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
255% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089
408th of 1,089

Family

The product line

-
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i5-8600K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8600K 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 and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 3500X and Core i5-8600K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600K. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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