AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-13700F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 16 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
$ 188.00 significantly less expensive
$ 255.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
12031 points
141% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
13909 points
106% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
11438 points
158% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
11295 points
163% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points
11823 points
155% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
313.63 points
134% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
15769 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
2678 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
71% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.2 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
24 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
6% slightly more L3 cache
30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
52nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7-13700F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700F is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Core i7-13700F has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700F. Despite this, the Core i7-13700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13700F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700F.

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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