AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-3470

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i5-3470 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Core i5-3470. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3470 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-3470 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3470. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3470. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3470 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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