AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7 X 990 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Core i7 X 990. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 X 990. The info from our database shows that the Core i7 X 990 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600

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.