AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7-1265U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1265U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1265U 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 Core i7-1265U has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1265U.

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.