AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i9-7980XE

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 18 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
$ 632.00 significantly less expensive
$ 699.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
10174 points
104% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
8591 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
10736 points
143% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
10962 points
156% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points
11651 points
151% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
376.16 points
181% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points
10703 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1388 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
11124 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1428 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
18
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
36
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
Identical
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
153% significantly lower TDP
165 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1152 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
75 MiB
134% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
84th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

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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