AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-9700F

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7-9700F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9700F 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 i7-9700F has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Core i7-9700F has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than the Core i7-9700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700F. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-9700F. 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.