AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-14700KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 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
$ 290.07 significantly less expensive
$ 357.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
15158 points
204% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
15326 points
127% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
15160 points
243% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
15291 points
257% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points
14250 points
207% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
442.38 points
230% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
19170 points
177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
2961 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
20
233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
28
133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.6 GHz
33% 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
28 MiB
833% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
33 MiB
3% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
21st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2023 November

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 i7-14700KF comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700KF performs better 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 i7-14700KF has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Core i7-14700KF has 20 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-14700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700KF has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. The Core i7-14700KF 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.

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