Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i9-7980XE specs and performance
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the Core i9-7980XE. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7980XE in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7980XE. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7980XE CPU because of its 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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