AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-6600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 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
$ 31.99 significantly less expensive
$ 98.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
98% significantly better overall score
2507 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
45% significantly better gaming score
4645 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
131% significantly better multitasking score
1909 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
133% significantly better heavy workload score
1831 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points
36% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
3406 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
179% significantly higher Blender score
47.76 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3416 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1249 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3562 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1297 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed
3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
626th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1866

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 i5-6600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Core i5-6600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-6600 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6600. 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 i5-6600. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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