AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-8700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-8700K

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 127.00 significantly less expensive

$ 194.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

5130 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

7103 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

4499 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

4352 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points

5074 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

126.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6462 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

0.71% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1549 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6565 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

1621 points

0.50% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.7 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

335th 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

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7-8700K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8700K 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3600. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.