AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-14700

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7-14700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700 beats the Ryzen 5 3600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. The Core i7-14700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.