AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i5-9500T

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i5-9500T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 beats the Core i5-9500T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9500T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9500T. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9500T 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.