AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-11400T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th 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

$ 67.00
$ 83.00 significantly less expensive
$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
53% significantly better overall score
3254 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
36% slightly better gaming score
4938 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
61% significantly better multitasking score
2740 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score
2640 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
105.96 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5472 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1568 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
176% significantly higher clock speed
1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
Identical
3 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

352nd of 1,089
504th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i5-11400T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 beats the Core i5-11400T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11400T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400T. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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