AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-8665U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 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
$ 1473.00 significantly less expensive
$ 1540.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
119% significantly better overall score
2271 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
78% significantly better gaming score
3777 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
140% significantly better multitasking score
1836 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
143% significantly better heavy workload score
1758 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
191% significantly higher Blender score
45.82 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points
180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2425 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points
103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
765 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
89% significantly higher clock speed
1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.8 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
669th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7-8665U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Core i7-8665U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8665U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8665U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8665U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8665U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8665U 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 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.

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