AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-7500T

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i5-7500T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Core i5-7500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7500T 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 i5-7500T that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7500T. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7500T. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-7500T 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500T. 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.