AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-9700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 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
$ 327.28 significantly less expensive
$ 394.28

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
37% slightly better overall score
3615 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
21% slightly better gaming score
5558 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
47% significantly better multitasking score
2998 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
48% significantly better heavy workload score
2875 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
86% significantly higher Blender score
71.66 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5019 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1294 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5204 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1395 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% 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
473rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
9th 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
DDR4-2666

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 i7-9700T specs and performance

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Core i7-9700T 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 i7-9700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700T. Despite this, the Core i7-9700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700T 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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