AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-6500

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i5-6500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 beats the Core i5-6500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500 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 i5-6500 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500. 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6500. 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.