AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i3-13100

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i3-13100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-13100 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-13100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-13100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-13100. Despite this, the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i3-13100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-13100.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.