AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-4440S

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i5-4440S benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 beats the Core i5-4440S in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4440S 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 i5-4440S. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-4440S. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4440S. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4440S. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.