AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-9700KF

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7-9700KF benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than the Core i7-9700KF. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 3600 and Core i7-9700KF have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700KF. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.